Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-02-02
Buyer: Arden and GEM CSU
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 112598 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-03-02

Technical requirements: Support Services for Children and Young People with Palliative Care Needs for NHS Nottingham West, Nottingham North and East, Rushcliffe and Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Groups.
To provide a service designed to support the needs of a child or young person with a life limiting condition and complex health needs. Support will be provided from birth to 18 years of age with the aim of enriching the lives of families and children.
Provision of a holistic family based support service will promote family resilience to impact positively on the child's well-being. This support should improve quality of life for the child/young person and support their care being maintained within the family for as long as possible.
The support team will work closely with the wider palliative care team and provide sensitive, skilled and practical support on an individual basis (home or hospital/hospice based), or through groups (e.g. parents and sibling groups) and 1 off activities, events and outings.
The service will also support the wider family members by providing emotional support to parents and siblings. Support will be provided to the family unit throughout the journey from when a child is first diagnosed with a condition to the bereavement stages.
Parent company or other guarantees, bonds, deposits, insurance or other forms of security may be required in certain circumstances. See invitation to tender for further details.
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require 1 party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ('the Regulations').
Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Part B services. These opportunities may be divided into lots. Please see published documentation for further detail.
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