Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-01-06
Buyer: Staffordshire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85300000
Estimated value: 55000000 EUR
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The agreement will represent all services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, including:
The adult services will need to have sufficient capacity to serve around 2 000 people at all times, which translates to around 3 000 per year.
The contract will represent all services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, including:
It is anticipated that there will be 2 funding partners to this agreement; North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group for the specialist alcohol-related health services and the Staffordshire Commissioner's Office for the specialist criminal justice services.
The Intensive Family Support Service (IFSS) will be financed using a social impact bond. SIBs can operate in a range of ways, although all involve an amount of finance being provided to the supplier by a social investor and also payments being made to the supplier by a commissioner (in this case the County Council) in return for specified outcomes being achieved. The finance provided by the social investor is used to cover operational costs in the period before income from the outcome payments is achieved.
The SIB for the IFSS has been made possible by the County Council successfully applying to the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) to be part of the Life Chances Fund(LCF). A non-negotiable condition of the LCF is that finance must be provided by a social investor. The supplier will need to enter into a financing arrangement with a social investor to finance the SIB.
This procurement is not split into lots. However, there will be 2 sets of service agreements that will apply which will need to be signed by the supplier due to funding stipulations for the IFSS element.
The agreement is to run from 1.4.2020-31.3.2024 with the option to extend by 3 x 12 months from 1.4.2024-31.3.2025, 1.4.2025-31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026-31.3.2027.
Agreement term will be from 1.4.2020 to 31.3.2024, with options to extend from 1.4.2024-31.3.2025, 1.4.2025-31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026-31.3.2027.
Inpatient detoxification and residential rehabilitation services and consultancy services to develop pathways/delivery programmes that ensure service user engagement and system efficiency, and to build further links with the local recovery community will be subcontracted
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period (or 15 days where non-electronic or fax methods are used) at the point that an award decision notice is communicated to tenderers.
The award decision process will specify the criteria for the award of the contract/framework agreement, the reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages, the name and score of the successful tender(s) and will specify when the standstill period is expected to end or the date before which the contracting authority will not conclude the contract.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). The Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or may order the contracting authority to amend any document and may award damages.
If an agreement has been entered into the Court may make a declaration of ineffectiveness or may order that the duration of any relevant specific contract be shortened and additionally may award damages.


Winner: Humankind Charity
Award value: 55000000
Number of bids: 3