Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-11
Buyer: Staffordshire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85300000
Estimated value: 55000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The agreement will represent ALL services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, including:
The adult services will need to have sufficient capacity to serve around 2 000 people at all times, which translates to around 3 000 per year.
The contract will represent all services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, including:
It is anticipated that there will be 2 funding partners to this agreement; North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group for the Specialist alcohol-related health services and the Staffordshire Commissioner's Office for the specialist criminal justice services.
The Intensive Family Support Service (IFSS) will be financed using a Social Impact Bond. SIBs can operate in a range of ways, although all involve an amount of finance being provided to the supplier by a social investor and also payments being made to the supplier by a commissioner (in this case the County Council) in return for specified outcomes being achieved. The finance provided by the social investor is used to cover operational costs in the period before income from the outcome payments is achieved.
The SIB for the IFSS has been made possible by the County Council successfully applying to the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) to be part of the Life Chances Fund(LCF). A non-negotiable condition of the LCF is that finance must be provided by a social investor. The supplier will need to enter into a financing arrangement with a Social Investor to finance the SIB.
This procurement is not split into lots. However, there will be 2 sets of service agreements that will apply which will need to be signed by the supplier due to funding stipulations for the IFSS element.
The agreement is to run from 1.4.2020 - 31.3.2024 with the option to extend by 3 x 12 months from 1.4.2024 - 31.3.2025, 1.4. 2025 - 31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026 - 31.3.2027.
The Agreement term will be from 1.4.2020 to 31.3.2024, with options to extend from 1.4.2024 – 31.3.2025, 1.4.2025 – 31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026 – 31.3.2027.
Agreement term will be from 1.4.2020 to 31.3.2024, with options to extend from 1.4.2024 – 31.3.2025, 1.4.2025 – 31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026 – 31.3.2027.
This is an electronic tender. All submission must be made via the formal Contracting Authority electronic tendering platform.
All requests for information to be sent through the electronic tendering portal and message facility on the Proactis electronic tendering system.
If you require urgent assistance regarding the initial usage of the e-Tendering package please contact the Contracting Authority point-of-contact in Section I.1 of this notice. On failure to reach this contact, please immediately email the nature of the difficulty to commercial.team@staffordshire.gov.uk
This procurement is for a Contract between the appointed providers(s) and the Contracting Authority, to supply predominately services on an ad-hoc call-off basis, as and when required.
The Contracting Authority or its public sector partners/customers makes no guarantee as to the volume of business on offer or to be awarded, and any volumes given are indicative only and intended as a general guide.


Award value: 55000000