Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-13
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services
Estimated value: 3200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-02-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Chorley South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group Bed-Based Intermediate Care Service
NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group are commissioning a number of nursing care beds for patients that require 24 hour supervision during their recuperation, this provision will be across a number of sites (3 separate sites are planned initially, with 5 beds in each site) enabling people to be as close to their community as possible, offering patient centred care that prevents admission, is clinically effective, outcome focussed and supports independence. The aim is to facilitate the transition to functional independence where possible so that each patient can return to their usual place of residence within a pre-defined period of time as detailed in their care and support plan.
This service will provide a subacute bed-based intermediate care within the Greater Preston area, for patients requiring nursing care and a range of short term treatment, complex discharge planning and rehabilitative care. This is both step up provision to prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions and premature admissions to long term care and step down provision for patients from acute hospital settings for recuperation and rehabilitation to support timely discharge from hospital.
The commissioner wishes to contract for a quantity of 5 block beds at 1 site with an option to flex this number as required from time to time.
This service will provide a subacute bed-based intermediate care within the Chorley area, for patients requiring nursing care and a range of short term treatment, complex discharge planning and rehabilitative care. This is both step up provision to prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions and premature admissions to long term care and step down provision for patients from acute hospital settings for recuperation and rehabilitation to support timely discharge from hospital.
The commissioner wishes to contract for a quantity of 5 block beds at 1 site with an option to flex this number as required from time to time.
This service will provide a subacute bed-based intermediate care within the South Ribble area, for patients requiring nursing care and a range of short term treatment, complex discharge planning and rehabilitative care. This is both step up provision to prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions and premature admissions to long term care and step down provision for patients from acute hospital settings for recuperation and rehabilitation to support timely discharge from hospital.
The commissioner wishes to contract for a quantity of 5 block beds at 1 site with an option to flex this number as required from time to time.
This procurement is for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7.
Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made
As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, patient choice and competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Right to cancel: the contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this contract notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these.
Transparency: the contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.


Award value: 3200000