Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2019-05-17
Buyer: Wirral Health and Care Commissioning on behalf of NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 4800000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Wirral Health and Care Commissioning (WHCC) on behalf of NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is looking to procure a Children and Adults Community Orthotics and Wigs (non-cancer related) Service. The service provider will be required to work in an integrated framework with the existing secondary care provider, ensuring a seamless pathway for patients.
This PIN is a call for competition to invite potential providers of Community Orthotics and Wigs service to express an interest. Service must be delivered in both a community based and secondary care setting within the Wirral peninsula boundary.
Bidders are required to comply with and meet requirements set out in the Standard Questionnaire, available at www.nhssourcing.co.uk
Minimum financial capacity includes a turnover of at least 1 times the total contract value of 4 800 000 GBP and technical capacity of having facilities capable of delivering the specified services within the CCG boundary, be CQC registered and hold an NHS provider licence. Further details of all minimum criteria are detailed within the standard questionnaire.
Optional extension of 2 consecutive 12 months term, subject to satisfactory performance and delivery of national standards.
This opportunity is for a healthcare service, as described in Regulations 74, 75 and 76, a light-touch regime approach is granted to this process, and therefore, the full regime of the regulations does not apply.
The Prior Information Notice (PIN) will be the only advertisement made for this opportunity. The exclusion criteria within the standard questionnaire (Appendix 2) included in this document must be met and satisfied before your expression of interest will be considered. Failure to meet the exclusion criteria will result in an automatic rejection from the process.
This opportunity is for a healthcare service, as described in Regulations 74, 75 and 76, a light-touch regime approach is granted to this process, and therefore, the full regime of the regulations does not apply.
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) will be the only advertisement made for this opportunity, unless any material changes are made to the scope of the project and a new PIN will then supersede this notice. The exclusion and selection criteria within the Standard Questionnaire (Appendix 2) included in this PIN must be met and satisfied before your expression of interest will be considered. Failure to meet the exclusion and selection criteria will result in an automatic rejection from the process.
A lack of interest being expressed in response to this PIN advert may be taken as evidence by WHCC that a competitive process may not be required. If expressions of interest are received, WHCC will likely to run a competitive process and would issue invitation to tender to those providers who meet the minimum acceptable criteria in the PIN process.
In accordance with Regulation 86 (Notices of decisions to award a contract), Regulation 87 (Standstill Period) and Regulations 91 (Enforcement of duties through the Court) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Eligibility requirements: As stated in the procurement documents. This opportunity is for a healthcare service, as described in Regulations 74, 75 and 76, a light-touch regime approach is granted to this process, and therefore, the full regime of the regulations does not apply. The Prior Information Notice (PIN) will be the only advertisement made for this opportunity. The exclusion criteria within the standard questionnaire (Appendix 2) included in this document must be met and satisfied before your expression of interest will be considered. Failure to meet the exclusion criteria will result in an automatic rejection from the process.

Award value: 4800000