Published date: 23 October 2019

This notice was replaced on 7 January 2020

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Awarded contract (published 7 January 2020)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Community health services - 85323000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£700,000 to £780,000

Procurement reference

CHEAST001-DN392775-15377925

Published date

23 October 2019

Closing date

25 November 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Cheshire East Council wishes to commission Infection Control related services to manage risk of spread of communicable disease. The commission will be split into two lots. The first involves delivery of a core infection prevention control service incorporating surveillance, prevention and outbreak response. The second lot involves delivery of specialist TB Nursing Services to the community including outreach, case management and new entrant screening. Both require work with key local stakeholders in order to deliver the services successfully.The contract(s) will be for an initial 3 years from 1st April 2020 with options to extend for 2 further periods of 12 months at the sole discretion of the Council. It should be noted that TUPE will apply to this commission. Interested parties should register their interest via the Chest system, reference DN392775. The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for organisations that are small or medium enterprises (SME's).
For the avoidance of doubt, the contracting authority points out that no weight will be attached to whether or not an economic operator is an SME in selecting economic operators to submit tenders or in assessing the most economically advantageous tender.

More information

Additional text

This procurement exercise will be conducted on the Council's E-Tendering System 'The Chest': www.the-chest.org.uk Organisations wishing to be considered for these
contract(s) must register their expression of interest and provide additional
procurement-specific information via this system. For technical help contact Proactis
Email: ProcontractSuppliers@proactis.com or Tel: +44 (0)330 005 0352 CHEST PROJECT REFERENCE: DN392775

About the buyer

Contact name

Louise Fenn

Address

Westfields
Middlewich Road
Sandbach
CW11 1HZ
England

Telephone

+44 1270686440

Email

louise.fenn@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Website

http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/