Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-17
Buyer: NHS Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group (documents via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home)
Country: UK
Region: Swindon
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85111000: Hospital services | 85111100: Surgical services
Estimated value: 52500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group (the CCG) is the commissioner of health and care services in Swindon, Shrivenham and the surrounding areas. Approximately 235 000 000 GBP of local health services are commissioned from a range of sources including primary care, community providers, acute trusts, charities, social enterprises and private providers. The CCG mission is to optimise the health for the 250 000 people registered with its 26 GP practices in Swindon and Shrivenham.
The CCG has been developing its plans to deliver the 5 Year Forward View including new models of care to strengthen prevention and to redesign care pathways with a focus on greater integration.
Following an extensive period of engagement and review the CCG with Swindon Borough Council is now seeking to recommission its community services via a provider model which integrates acute and community pathways, incentivised to shift the emphasis of treatment to effective prevention and management of patients, particularly those with Long Term Conditions and the Frail Elderly including alignment to adult social care.
The current contract for the provision of these services ends on the 17.2.2017. The CCG with Swindon Borough Council is therefore seeking to recommission services from a capable provider who will work with the CCG over the contract period to deliver services and to redesign the delivery of a community-based model of care to meet the CCG commissioning intentions and link to our plans through the Better Care Fund. The new contract for these services will be awarded for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for any period up to 24 months and must commence from the 18.2.2017.
As many NHS organisations the CCG is facing a significant challenge to ensure that high-quality, affordable, community health and care services can be delivered in the face of reductions in funding allocations and increasing demands. Service transformation will be required in order for community services in Swindon to remain at the heart of a sustainable health and care system. To this end the CCG will require the provider, over the period of the contract, to work with all existing health and social care providers, the Council, and the CCG to devise a reconfigured model of delivery to create sustainability, and support the transformation in line with Swindon CCGs transformational agenda to deliver the 5 Year Forward View Vision. The Service transformation process may require variation to the services provided over the life of the contract. This is in line with the CCG ethos of integrating health and care and empowering local communities to have greater ownership of decisions and resources, tailored to local needs.
The provider must be able to demonstrate to the CCG that they can deliver a high quality service and that they have a clear understanding of the strategic direction for services within Swindon and of the need for close engagement and system leadership with other providers within Wiltshire.
The provider will be expected to deliver transferred services within a cost envelope of circa 17 500 000 GBP per annum representing the CCG and Swindon Borough Council funding. The CCG and Swindon Borough Council expect financial efficiencies to be delivered over the term of the contract. Further details of cost envelope and financial efficiency expectations will be supplied in the tender documents.
Swindon Borough Council will be the provider of social work and OT services as well as the commissioner of domiciliary, residential and nursing care. The CCG and Council are planning to tender for a prime contractor for domiciliary care and this procurement will need to align with the work of the Council with the possibility of future links between both contracts as part of a 1 Swindon Budget. There is an expectation that social work services and any future providers of domiciliary, residential and nursing care will work closely with community health services to ensure an integrated approach for patients and service users.
Adult Community Health and Social Care Services will include but not limited to the following services:
Due to the urgent and pressing requirement of the CCG to securely commission these services by the 17.2.2017 to minimise impact to patient care, providers wishing to be considered as a ‘Capable Provider’ for this contract should formally express an interest via In-Tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/swcsu/aspx/Home by 12:00 on 18.4.2016. Responses will not be accepted by any other means.
The Services are healthcare services within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 and are therefore not governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The tendering process will therefore be conducted in accordance with the current legislation that applies to the tendering of healthcare services within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013. The Commissioner will run a fair and transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. In addition, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.
The Commissioner has voluntarily advertised this procurement exercise in the Official Journal, solely in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. The Commissioner has been constrained by the forms used by the Publications Office to describe the procurement procedure, but the Commissioner does not bind itself to conduct the procurement process in accordance with any Procedure as described in the Regulations.
Neither a reference during or after this procurement process to the Regulations or the use of language or terminology common to the Regulations shall require the Commissioner to conduct a full procurement in accordance with the Regulations. This notice is being placed for advertising purposes only.
The contract will have an initial term of 3 years, with the Commissioners reserving the right to extend the contract for 1 further period up to an additional 2 year period.

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