Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-09-28
Buyer: West Sussex County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85311300 | 85322000 | 85323000
Estimated value: 76554000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-11-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: West Sussex County Council (WSCC) is seeking a provider to deliver an integrated 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP) for the county of West Sussex. The successful provider will be able to demonstrate a track record of delivering HCP services, and act as a collaborative partner with the Council as it looks to provide a fully Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help service (IPEH).
The Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0-19/25 is a research-evidenced population-based public health programme starting during pregnancy and continuing throughout the early years and school life of children and young people. It is a progressive universal model, delivering an offer to all families with children and a targeted and enhanced service to those with an identified need. Young people with special educational needs and disabilities continue to be eligible for the HCP up to the age of 25. There is a strong emphasis on building resilience, early identification and prevention of escalating health and social care need in children and their families.
West Sussex County Council (WSCC) has had responsibility for commissioning of the HCP (5-19) since 2013. Commissioning responsibility for the HCP (0-5), including Family Nurse Partnership (FNP), transferred to the Council on 1.10.2015 from NHS England. Current contractual arrangements expire on 31.3.2017, providing an opportunity to review and redesign services. A comprehensive stakeholder engagement process has taken place to inform the redesign, from which key themes have emerged that have informed the development of a vision and future service model.
The financial value specified in the Contract Notice shall range from just the value attaching to the Public Health (HCP) Services at the low end (c. 11 912 000 GBP p.a. in 2017/18) through to the combined value of a fully integrated service incorporating all elements of the services at the high end of the value scale (c. 25 000 000 GBP p.a.).
The Council gives no assurance that the contract will extend to include these additional services and will be subject to a full business case and co-designed delivery model before any such services are included within this contract and the Council reserves the right not to include any or all of these services at any stage of the redesign. The Council cannot at this stage give any firm commitments to timescales for these additional services, however, initial discussions will commence with the successful provider as soon as the contract has been awarded.
Initial period of the contract is 5 (five) years with an option to extend for a further 2 (two) years, 7 (seven) years in total.
This is an open procurement undertaken in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015. The services being procured are classified as ‘Light Touch Regime (LTR)’ under the EU Procurement Directive 2014.
When awarding contracts under the Light Touch Regime the Council will take into account any relevant considerations as detailed in Regulation 76(8) of PCR15, including
i. the need to ensure quality, continuity, accessibility, affordability, availability and comprehensiveness of the services,
ii. the specific needs of different categories of users, including disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, and
Interested Organisations should visit the Councils e-tendering portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Tenders/Current to express an interest and access all of the Invitation to Tender documents.
West Sussex County Council will incorporate a minimum of 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority or the lodging of an appeal before the contract is entered into. Such additional information should be requested from the contact point referenced in part 1.1) of the Contract Notice.

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