Public procurement notice: Services Concession
Published: 2018-05-12
Buyer: Bærum kommune
Country: NO
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Concession award procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85141200: Services provided by nurses | 85141210
Submission deadline: 2018-06-06

Technical requirements: Bærum kommune invites nursing and care services providers to apply for a service concession to deliver home services (practical assistance and home nursing care) to users in Bærum kommune. The scheme with user selection gives users with individual decisions on practice assistance and /or home nursing care the right to choose if they want the service to be carried out by municipal authorities or private service providers who have entered into a service concession contract with the municipality. The services are sanctioned by the law on municipal health and care services etc.
The service provider shall deliver both home nursing care and practical assistance services in the contract.
Home nursing care is a 24 hours service that performs health care, nursing, care and guidance for persons living at home who have a need for necessary health care. User often have a compound clinical picture where health competence is necessary to perform health care, nursing and care. Tenderers shall offer home nursing care services during the day and evening (all days), i.e. During the times 07:30 - 22:30. Home nursing care at night (22:30 - 07:30) is carried out by the municipal night service. Tenderers who deliver home nursing care services shall also offer stationary services. Stationary services are services where the user has 1-2 employees present 24 hours a day or for large parts of the 24 hours period. Stationary services shall be delivered 24 hours a day, also at night.
Practical assistance is given to persons who are dependent on nursing and care services to manage daily tasks. This can be help for cleaning, textile handling, handling etc. that does not necessarily require the service employee to have professional health competence. There is a requirement for nursing competence in guidance of employees and in follow up of users. Users can have a compound clinical picture. The practical assistance service shall be delivered during the day and evening (all days), i.e. between the times 07:30 - 22:30.
Tenderers have demand risk and there is no guarantee of a minimum volume for the service /users. Delivery of services requires that the users select services from the tenderer.
— Requirement 1: The tenderer shall be registered in a company register, professional register or a trade register in the state where the tenderer is established.
— Requirement 2: The tenderer is required to be financially solvent, which gives the contracting authority the security that the tenderer will be financially viable throughout the period of the agreement.
— Requirement 3: The tenderer shall have an organisation that is competent and has the capacity to carry out the services requested. The person responsible for the services shall be a certified nurse with at least three years of relevant experience.
— Requirement 5: The tenderer shall have a good and well functioning system for quality management and project managing for the services that shall be delivered. See further description in the tender documentation point 3 “Qualification Requirement” and 2.7 “Tax Certificate”.
The procurement begins with a qualification phase. This stage of the procurement process includes a qualitative selection of tenderers who are invited to submit tenders. The contracting authority plans to invite 5 tenderers to submit tender offers for the competition. If more than five tenderers meet the qualification requirements, in phase 1 the contracting authority will select tenderers based on the selection criteria. Only the tenderers who are selected and invited will be able to submit tender offers in phase 2.
Selection criteria in phase 1 will be in the tender documentation point 4 “Selection criteria for qualification - phase 1”. The award criteria in phase 2 will be in the tender documentation point 5 “Award criteria - phase 2”.