Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-22
Buyer: Warwickshire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85111000: Hospital services | 85111800 | 85111810 | 85111820
Estimated value: 2573665 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-01-19

Technical requirements: Warwickshire County Council Public Health and Coventry and Rugby CCG are jointly re-commissioning the Community TB Nursing service.
The Community TB Nursing Service is a specialist nurse-led service that supports and provides care to patients diagnosed with TB within both Warwickshire and Coventry. The Team work with specialist medical staff to ensure a smooth patient journey from diagnosis to discharge and this includes supporting patients to take medication (Directly Observed Therapy DOT), referring for social support, home visits, tracing and testing contacts/family members for TB infection, managing incidents and outbreaks in the community and providing BCG vaccinations. The service provides information and advice to patients and carers and educational/TB awareness sessions to a wide range of professionals.
Warwickshire County Council (WCC, lead commissioner) and Coventry and Rugby CCG (CRCCG) wish to commission a single provider to deliver a Coventry and Warwickshire Community TB Service within Coventry and Warwickshire.
This Service is being jointly commissioned by WCC Public Health and CRCCG, and has a focus on protecting public health through awareness raising among high risk communities, identification, testing and high quality treatment and care of TB patients and their close contacts to prevent wider spread and infection. NHS England West Midlands will also be third parties to the contract for the elements of the neonatal BCG programme being delivered through the service. Further, it is also expected that the provider will deliver the Latent TB case-finding programme for the Coventry Rugby area (commissioned by Coventry Rugby CCG, with NHS England as lead commissioners for this programme nationally).
The service model cover a range of services involving multiple commissioners (see list below) who have come together to ensure the relevant BCG and TB pathways are streamlined, delivered cost effectively and meet the quality requirements as per the service specification:
— Warwickshire County Council and Coventry Rugby CCG are the responsible commissioners for the Community TB service, with Warwickshire County Council acting as lead commissioner for the proposed joint contract.
— Coventry and Rugby CCG is the responsible commissioner for the Latent TB testing and treatment programme, to be delivered in the Rugby area.
— NHS England (West Midlands) is the responsible commissioner for neonatal BCG for infants born in the area and those who have moved into the area (0-12 months of age), including for the elements delivered by the Community TB service. NHS England (West Midlands) wish to commission BCG vaccination for infants aged 0-12 months that have moved into the Coventry and Warwickshire area with an option to include neonatal BCG (in Warwickshire) at a later date. Should this arise during the life of the contract term, NHS England (West Midlands) will undertake a separate negotiation with the Provider and a contract variation will be issued.
The initial contract term will be 5 years however the Council reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 24 months (24 being the maximum available extension period) at the discretion of the Council based on the contract performance of the successful applicant.
The Council will undertake its financial assessment of the tendering organisation (and if considered necessary by the Council, any partners within a consortium bid) based on its own evaluation of the Tenderers most recent 2 years accounts (or if 2 years accounts are not available, equivalent evidence which confirms financial viability). The assessment of accounts will be supported by an independent credit reference report from Creditsafe where this is available. The Council may also impose a Bond or Performance Guarantee on the successful Tenderer. Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Evidence as stated in the tender documentation. The assessment of accounts will be supported by an independent credit reference report from Creditsafe where this is available. The Council may also impose a Bond or Performance Guarantee on the successful Tenderer.
Warwickshire County Council will be using its e-tendering system (CSW-JETS) for the administration of this procurement process. Providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest and download documents. The web address for CSW-JETS is: www.csw-jets.co.uk Registration and use of CSW-JETS is free. All correspondence or clarifications relating to this procurement must be via the CSWJETS correspondence function. If you are having trouble registering with CSW-JETS please email us at: procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk
Providers must register on CSW-JETS and express an interest in this project in order to download tender documents and be able to correspond with us about this procurement.


Award value: 2573665