Published date: 12 January 2025

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Opportunity (published 12 January 2025, last edited 12 January 2025)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Construction work - 45000000

Location of contract

TN24 0LZ

Value of contract

£0.01

Procurement reference

CF-2703900D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

12 January 2025

Closing date

12 February 2025

Closing time

4pm

Contract start date

1 April 2025

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

2gether Support Solutions Ltd. (herein referred to as "we" or "our" or "us") was formed in April 2018 as a new, wholly owned subsidiary company of one of the largest NHS Foundation Trust in England, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

We provide essential support services to the Trust, from facilities and property management to catering, procurement and portering.

We are seeking to appoint up to five capable and suitably experienced providers to deliver multiple major capital works projects, including lot:

#1: Projects (excluding Mechanical & Electrical works) across all hospital sites, valued up to 1,000,000 GBP; OR
#2) Projects (excluding Mechanical & Electrical works) across all hospital sites, valued between 1,000,000 GBP and 10,000,000 GBP; OR
#3) Mechanical Projects (excluding Electrical) across all hospital sites, valued up to 1,000,000 GBP; OR
#4a) Electrical Projects (excluding Mechanical) at our William Harvey Hospital site only, valued up to 1,000,000 GBP; OR
#4b) Electrical Projects (excluding Mechanical) across all other hospital sites, valued up to 1,000,000 GBP.

We are seeking a long-term collaborative working partnership with each appointed provider and hoping to appoint partners who will adopt the same ethos throughout the proposed contract term.

Further information about the requirements, including how this contract opportunity will be awarded, is available from the published procurement documents available for download from the Supplier's Documents folder within the Health Family Single eCommercial System e-tendering portal ("Atamis e-sourcing portal").

In so far as the procurement procedure is concerned, we shall be adopting the 'Open Procedure' as set out by Regulation 27 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Whilst tenders may be submitted for one, for several or for all of the lots, we shall also be limiting the number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer in accordance with the criteria as stated within the procurement documents available for download from the Supplier's Documents folder within the Atamis e-sourcing portal.

If you are capable of delivering the requirement described and interested in helping support us, then you are invited to submit a response in accordance with the instructions set out in the Additional information section of this notice.

More information

Additional text

We reserve the right not to award this contract opportunity or to award only part (or a different arrangement) of the opportunity described herein.

Further information about us can be found from https://2gethersupportsolutions.org.

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Should you have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 or E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk.

This contract opportunity may be used by other Contracting Authorities including any of the following:

a) other public sector bodies located in, or around, Kent and Medway, including Clinical Commissioning Groups or GP Practices and any other provider of primary medical services; or local authorities or NHS Foundation Trusts / NHS Trusts; or social enterprises or subsidiary companies of any of the above; and
b) any statutory and any other successor organisations to the above and any of the foregoing contracting authorities.

About the buyer

Contact name

Senior Category Manager - Corporate (C319420)

Address

William Harvey Hospital, Kennington Road, Willesborough
Ashford
TN24 0LZ
United Kingdom

Email

2gether.2getherprocurement@nhs.net