Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-09-07
Buyer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (as host of the NHS London Procurement Partnerhip)
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 66172000 | 79211110 | 79631000
Estimated value: 18500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-10-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (as host of the NHS London Procurement Partnership) is seeking to establish a framework for the provision of Payroll Services. The framework shall be open to: LPP member bodies (whether full, associate or other members) as listed at: http://www.lpp.nhs.uk/about-lpp/our-members/ and any additional new LPP members for the duration of the contract; plus any other NHS/Public Sector bodies located in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, subject to the approval of LPP, including but not limited to Acute Trusts, Foundation Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Community Health Trusts, Special Health Authorities, Health Boards, NHS Commissioning Boards, Commissioning Support Units and other health organisations (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), Health and Social Care Trusts (Northern Ireland), Community Health Councils, Local Health Boards, Social Enterprises, NHS Collaborative Procurement Hubs/Organisations, GP Practices, Primary Care Commissioners, Department of Health, Public Health England and Local Authorities (where Local Authorities are engaged in the provision or commissioning of health related services, for example (but not limited to) the fields of healthcare, social care, early years care and public health). The framework will also be available to any other public sector organisation where there is a collaborative effort to combine back-office functions and the NHS organisation is the primary Contracting Authority.
Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx
Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies
NHS England: https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS published July 2010.
NHS Professional Regulator: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/healthregulators/Pages/professional-standards-authority.aspx
The Clinical Commissioning Board, Area Teams: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing General Practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices and any other provider of primary medical services:
b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above:
NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/localservices/localhealthboards/
NHS Scotland (National Health Service for Scotland) including but not limited to: NHS Boards, Hospitals, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/
NHS Northern Ireland (National Health Service for Northern Ireland) including but not limited to: Health and Social Care Trusts, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, social care services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.hscni.net/
The framework will allow participating organisations to conduct further competitions as and when the requirement arises.
The framework shall be for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for 1 further year in-line with the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
While the contracting authority cannot guarantee volume, the framework will be available to all those bodies referred to in Section II.I.5) above.
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. Details can be found in the Invitation to Tender (ITT).
Joint and several liability. Bids must be made by 1 organisation. Where a sub-contract solution is being proposed, the prime contractor will be responsible and liable for service delivery.

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