Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-19
Buyer: City of York Council
Country: UK
Region: York
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 45215213 | 45215214 | 71200000 | 71500000 | 71540000: Construction management services
Estimated value: 20000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The council owned site at the former Burnholme Community College with part of the site allocated for the care home, Bad Bargain Lane, York, YO31 0GW.
The City of York Council are looking for partner(s) who will fund, develop and operate a dual-registered Care Home on a long lease granted by the council for the site at Burnholme, York. The new Care Home will have the capacity to provide residential and nursing care and care for those with dementia.
The Council intends to block book and contract for up to 30 care beds within this care home that are at the negotiated rate of Target Price for Care under a Service Contract for a 10 year initial term with an option to extend for up to a further 5 years.
The range of Care Home beds that the Council may require include offering residential care for residents with dementia; and nursing care for residents with dementia.
The estimated contract value below is of the Service Contract on the basis of up to 30 blocked booked care beds over the maximum 15 year term. However, the number of care beds purchased under the Service Contract may vary over the duration of the arrangement and the Council may increase or decrease its requirements.
The appointed provider will be required to take the identified site on a long term lease granted by the council It will need to finance the cost of acquiring the long lease from the Council as well a the construction, fit-out and operation of the new Care Home.
The Service Contract for care beds between the Council and appointed provider will be for an initial term of 10 years with an option to extend exercisable during the initial term for up to a further 5 years.
The Council reserves the right to require deposits, guarantees, bonds or other forms of appropriate security.
Details will be confirmed in the Invitation to Tender (ITT) and accompanying procurement documents for those bidders successful in being shortlisted for the tender stage. The appointed provider will be required to finance the acquisition of the site from the Council and also construction, fit-out and operation of the new Care Home.
Expressions of interest in response to this contract notice may be submitted by a single bidder, consortium or other suitable groupings of bidders. The Council reserves the right to require groupings of bidders to take a particular legal form or to require a single bidder to take primary liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
The appointed provider may be required to actively participate in the achievement of social and/or environmental policy objectives relating to the construction of the Care Home, its operation and the recruitment and training of staff during the operation of services. Accordingly some contract performance conditions may relate to social and environmental considerations.
In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Pubic Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire which is available from the portal address in section I.1.
Details on how bidders will be shortlisted are provided in the Pre Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation to Tender documents.
Interested parties can download the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and Invitation to Tender documentation directly from www.yortender.co.uk by using the Yortender reference: ABNJ-P4O6VK:

Eligibility requirements: In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Pubic Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire which is available from the portal address in section I.1. As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Pubic Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire which is available from the portal address in section I.1. As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Pubic Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire which is available from the portal address in section I.1. As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
In accordance with Article 58 to 63 of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation 58 to 63 of the Pubic Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and as set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire which is available from the portal address in section I.1.
As set out in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).