South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust : The Provision of Bank and Agency Staffing

  South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has published this notice through Delta eSourcing

Notice Summary
Title: The Provision of Bank and Agency Staffing
Notice type: Contract Notice
Authority: South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Nature of contract: Services
Procedure: Restricted
Short Description: The Trust are looking for a potential partner who can provide an efficient Bank and Agency staff management service for a NHS Foundation Trust providing Community and Mental Health Services across Essex, Bedfordshire and Luton and Suffolk. We are looking for a provider who will manage all aspects of a bank and agency management services from recruitment through to induction and maintenance of high standards of training and employment regulations. It is also a requirement that the provider will undertake to ensure a consistent on-site customer-facing presence. The provider will be responsible for ensuring a 365 days per year, round the clock solution for the management of bank and agency staffing requirements. Previous successful management of a Bank and Agency service comprising of up to 2,000 workers, across all professions and experience of dealing effectively with large scale TUPE Transfers is absolutely essential. THERE IS NOT THE REQUIRMENT TO PROVIDE PERMANENT STAFF
Published: 10/04/2013 16:32

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UK-Grays: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
      Thurrock Commuity Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1375364505, Fax. +44 1375364468, Email: sally.pooley@sept.nhs.uk
      Attn: Sally Pooley

      Further information can be obtained at: As Above       
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above       
      Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above       
   
   I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
      Body governed by public law

   I.3) Main activity:
      Health

   I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities:
      The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No

Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: The Provision of Bank and Agency Staffing
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 27

         Region Codes: UKH32 - Thurrock         
      II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:The notice involves a public contract                                                       
      
      II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Supply services of personnel including temporary staff. The Trust are looking for a potential partner who can provide an efficient Bank and Agency staff management service for a NHS Foundation Trust providing Community and Mental Health Services across Essex, Bedfordshire and Luton and Suffolk.
We are looking for a provider who will manage all aspects of a bank and agency management services from recruitment through to induction and maintenance of high standards of training and employment regulations.
It is also a requirement that the provider will undertake to ensure a consistent on-site customer-facing presence.
The provider will be responsible for ensuring a 365 days per year, round the clock solution for the management of bank and agency staffing requirements.
Previous successful management of a Bank and Agency service comprising of up to 2,000 workers, across all professions and experience of dealing effectively with large scale TUPE Transfers is absolutely essential. THERE IS NOT THE REQUIRMENT TO PROVIDE PERMANENT STAFF
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff.
         

      II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): No       
      II.1.8)Lots:
         This contract is divided into lots: No
      II.1.9)Information about variants:
         Variants will be accepted: No    
   
   II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
      II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
      Not Provided      
      
      II.2.2)Options: Not Provided         
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: Not Provided         
   II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion      
         Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

   Information About Lots
               
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information
   III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
      III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
      Not Provided
      
      III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
      Not Provided
      
      III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
      Not Provided
      
      III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
         The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions:Yes       
      If Yes, description of particular conditions:
      These will be included in the Invitation to Tender      
   III.2)Conditions For Participation
      III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
      Not Provided      
      III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
         Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:         
         (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance;
         (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
         (c) a statement of the undertaking's overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         To be included in the PQQ
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         (b) a list of the principal deliveries effected or the main services provided in the past three years, with the sums, dates and recipients, whether public or private, involved. Evidence of delivery and services provided shall be given: - where the recipient was a contracting authority, in the form of certificates issued or countersigned by the competent authority, - where the recipient was a private purchaser, by the purchaser's certification or, failing this, simply by a declaration by the economic operator;
         (c) an indication of the technicians or technical bodies involved, whether or not belonging directly to the economic operator's undertaking, especially those responsible for quality control and, in the case of public works contracts, those upon whom the contractor can call in order to carry out the work;
         (f) the educational and professional qualifications of the service provider or contractor and/or those of the undertaking's managerial staff and, in particular, those of the person or persons responsible for providing the services or managing the work;
         (h) a statement of the average annual manpower of the service provider or contractor and the number of managerial staff for the last three years;
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         To be included in the PQQ      
      III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: Not Provided   
   III.3)Conditions Specific To Service Contracts
      III.3.1)Information about a particular profession:
         Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: No       
      III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
         Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: No
Section IV: Procedure
   IV.1)Type Of Procedure
      IV.1.1)Type of procedure: Restricted
      
      IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
                        Envisaged minimum number: 5 and maximum number: 10         
         Objective Criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
         To be included in the PQQ   
   IV.2)Award Criteria
      IV.2.1)Award criteria:      
         The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
            The criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

      IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction:
         An electronic auction will be used: Not Provided
   IV.3)Administrative Information
      IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: Not Provided      
      IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No

      IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:

      Date: 14/05/2013
      Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 17:00
         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 15/05/2013
         Time: 17:00      
      IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 17/05/2013      
      IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:         English
         


Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: No
   VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
      The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No       
   VI.3)Additional Information: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=56893758
GO-2013410-PRO-4720235 TKR-2013410-PRO-4720234
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Not Provided

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Not Provided

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 10/04/2013

ANNEX A

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UK-Grays: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   Title: UK-Grays: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff.
   I.1)Name, Addresses And Contact Point(s)
      South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
      Thurrock Commuity Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1375364505, Fax. +44 1375364468, Email: sally.pooley@sept.nhs.uk
      Attn: Sally Pooley
   
   I.2)Type Of Purchasing Body
      Not Provided      
      
Section II: Object Of The Contract
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority/entity: The Provision of Bank and Agency Staffing
      II.1.2)Short description of the contract or purchase:
      Supply services of personnel including temporary staff. The Trust are looking for a potential partner who can provide an efficient Bank and Agency staff management service for a NHS Foundation Trust providing Community and Mental Health Services across Essex, Bedfordshire and Luton and Suffolk.
We are looking for a provider who will manage all aspects of a bank and agency management services from recruitment through to induction and maintenance of high standards of training and employment regulations.
It is also a requirement that the provider will undertake to ensure a consistent on-site customer-facing presence.
The provider will be responsible for ensuring a 365 days per year, round the clock solution for the management of bank and agency staffing requirements.
Previous successful management of a Bank and Agency service comprising of up to 2,000 workers, across all professions and experience of dealing effectively with large scale TUPE Transfers is absolutely essential. THERE IS NOT THE REQUIRMENT TO PROVIDE PERMANENT STAFF
      
      II.1.3)Common procurement vocabulary:
      79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff.
      
      
Section IV: Procedure
   IV.1) Type of Procedure
      IV.1.1)Type of procedure (as stated in the original notice): Restricted       
   IV.2)Administrative Information
      IV.2.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity: Not Provided      
      IV.2.2)Notice reference for electronically submitted notice
         Original Notice sent via: OJS eSender

         Notice Reference: 2013 - 104091
      IV.2.3)Notice to which this publication refers: Not Provided      
      IV.2.4)Date of dispatch of the original Notice: 10/04/2013
      
Section VI: Complementary Information
   1: Complementary Information
      VI.1)This notice involves: Incomplete Procedure

      VI.2)Information on incomplete awarding procedure
          The awarding procedure has been discontinued.

      VI.4)Other additional information:      
      The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=58523709
GO-2013429-PRO-4767773 TKR-2013429-PRO-4767772

      VI.5)Date of dispatch: 29/04/2013

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