Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2018-11-29
Buyer: NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 60000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-12-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Supply maternity services for the residents of West Cheshire, which includes; antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal pathways. Services must include an offer of choice to women as to their preferred method and place of birth; including within the home, in an obstetric unit or within a midwifery led unit.
Supply maternity services which includes; antenatal, intrapartum and post-natal pathways. Services must include an offer of choice to women as to their preferred method and place of birth; including within the home, in an obstetric unit or within a midwifery led unit. Services are inclusive of diagnostics and should include the provision of laboratory facilities, ultrasound scans and blood gas monitoring.
Services will promote the development of a continuity of carer model (named midwife) and seek to reduce obstetric unit births by 25 % during the life of the contract. Service developments must be co-designed with local women.
The prime provider model will seek to minimise barriers and improve flow within the health economy. It is expected that the Prime Provider will work collaboratively with other providers and develop sub-contracting arrangements, in order to promote choice of place and choice in delivery method.
It is essential for the Prime Provider to ensure facilities or clear pathways are in place to provide high dependency care, which can include adult critical care beds, maternal care beds, special care baby unit and neonatal unit. The prime provider must also facilitate clear rehabilitation pathways which includes direct access to physiotherapy and also mental health pathways without the need for primary care intervention. Where the prime provider cannot evidence provision of these facilities and services; a contract or a model alliance agreement must be in place and provisionally agreed with partners prior to qualifying to bid.
This procurement will follow the light touch regime for health services. As such will be conducted in two stages, expressions of interest with completion of a standard selection questionnaire and all those that then meet the minimum standards will then be invited to submit a tender.
The contract is for 3 years with an option to extend up to a further 2 years. Contract values reflected below are for the full 5 year possible term. There were 2505 births registered in 2017/18 from women registered within the West Cheshire population.
This light touch regime process will adopt an optional 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to bidders. This period allows unsuccessful bidders to consider the debriefing from the Contracting Authority before the contract is entered into. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Regulations provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly.

Eligibility requirements: Minimum requirements are listed in the standard selection questionnaire and will include: NHS Improvement Licence CQC Registration Mbrrace-uk registration Midwife registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Adherence to: — the General Medical Council Professional Duty of Candour, — the Professional standards of practice and behaviour for Nurses and Midwives, — the NHS public health functions agreement 2018-19, and — the Public Health Core Service Specification including the National Immunisation Programme.

Award value: 60000000