Published date: 15 November 2018

Last edited date: 15 November 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 14 December 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£25,000,000 to £33,862,012

Procurement reference

M-18-08 #2

Published date

15 November 2018

Closing date

14 December 2018

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Other under Light Touch Regime

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) are working on behalf of NHS Halton CCG who wishes to procure Urgent Treatment Centres for both patients living in the Borough of Halton and for patients from other CCG areas.

The Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) services are an evolution of the current service provided at the respective Urgent Care Centres and is based on a nationally mandated set of requirements that are detailed in the Urgent Treatment Centres - Principles and Standards, published in July 2017. It is expected that both UTCs will be open for 12 hours per day; 7 days per week.

The UTC will consist of the following main functions of Reception, Triage, Assessment and treatment, Associated diagnostic tests/investigations, Discharge, including necessary communications to the patient's registered GP, Onward referral if needed (e.g. assessment units), Provision of self-care and wellbeing advice and information, Helping patients with registration with a local GP if required.

The services based in the centres will be accessible by all of the patients of the 14 GP practices that are covered by NHS Halton CCG; and will also triage and treat patients from other CCG areas.

The specification for the UTCs may be subject to change to incorporate other contracts when these expire in line with NHS England's national integrated urgent care specification. These contracts are: GP Access Fund (GP Extra); Out of Hours; NHS 111. The breakdown of both LOTs in the contracts is as follows:

• Urgent Treatment Centres: £5 Million per annum - total of £25 million over the five years
• GP Access Fund (GP Extra) - from 1st April 2020 to 30th September 2024 only: £722,000 per annum - total of £3,249,000
• Out of Hours - from 1st October 2020 to 30th September 2024 only: £1,087,0000 per annum - total of £4,348,000
• NHS 111 - from 1st October 2020 to 30th September 2024 only: £316,253 per annum - total of £1,265,012

There will be an initial contract period of 3 years commencing on 1st October 2019. There will be the option to extend for a further 2-year period from 1st October 2022. The contract value is set at £33,862,012 over the entire 5-year contract period - please refer to breakdown above.

Potential suppliers should be aware that clarifications to the Selection Questionnaire documents should be submitted before Friday 7th December 2018 and Selection Questionnaire responses should be submitted before 12pm on Friday 14th December 2018.
Submission of the Selection Questionnaire and procurement specific information: this exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest & provide additional procurement-specific information (by registering on the Bravo portal). Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).

More information

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Additional text

This procurement is for Social and other specific 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') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made

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


The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

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.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.

Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.

Further details will be made available via d

About the buyer

Contact name

Helen Graham

Address

c/o NHS Halton CCG, 1st Floor Town Hall
Heath Road
Runcorn
WA7 5TD
England

Email

mlcsu.tenders@nhs.net

Website

www.haltonccg.nhs.uk