North and East London Commissioning Support Unit: Waltham Forest Care Home Services

UK-London: Health services.

Preliminary Questions
   This notice is published by:
   Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1) Name and addresses
       NHS Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group
       Kirkdale House, 7 Kirkdale Road, London, E11 1HP, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2030495872, Email: nelcsu.welcpod-procurement@nhs.net
       Contact: Jean-Claude SIMBA
       Main Address: http://www.nelcsu.nhs.uk/, Address of the buyer profile: http://www.walthamforestccg.nhs.uk/
       NUTS Code: UKI4

I.4) Type of the contracting authority (in the case of a notice published by a contracting authority)
      Body governed by public law

I.5) Main Activity (in the case of a notice published by a contracting authority)
      Health


Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement
   
   II.1.1) Title: Waltham Forest Care Home Services.
      Reference number: Not Provided
      
   II.1.2) Main CPV code:
      85100000 - Health services.
   
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
   
   II.1.4) Short Description: Waltham Forest CCG (WFCCG), has a requirement to commission from within the borough boundary, additional nursing home bed capacity and has carefully considered the options to address the capacity deficit within the borough for affordable nursing bed capacity. WF CCG has identified a vacant and non-operational nursing home on Bisterne Avenue, Walthamstow and WFCCG now intends to commission nursing home beds from this site.
   
   II.1.6) Information about lots
      This contract is divided into lots: No

   II.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
      Value: 7,735,000      
      Currency: GBP


II.2) Description

   II.2.2) Additional CPV codes:
      85140000 - Miscellaneous health services.
   

   II.2.3) Place of performance:
      UKI4 Inner London – East
   
   
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:
    WFCCG are to contract with (Provider Name) for the provision of (Number of Beds) Care Home Services at Bisterne Avenue, Walthamstow. A procurement process has not been followed as WFCCG believes that there are no alternative providers within the market who have the required bed capacity that WFCCG intends to commission to meet the current demands. Given the time it would take to bring new capacity to the market through new builds or conversion of existing sites, which would both have to go through protracted planning applications, with no guarantee of success, WFCCG believes that additional beds can only be provided by (Provider Name) and intends to make a direct award of a contract to them.    
   
   II.2.5) Award criteria
   (Directive 2014/24/EU / Directive 2014/25/EU)
               
    Not provided       
      
      
   II.2.11) Information about options:
      Options:    No       
   
   II.2.13) Information about European Union funds:
      The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:    No

   II.2.14) Additional information:
    The Contract will be for 5 years commencing on 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2024.    
      
Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description
   
   IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union in the cases listed below         
   
   IV.1.3) Information about framework agreement
         The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement: No    
   
   IV.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
         The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
         
IV.2)Administrative Information

   IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure:
      Notice number in OJ S: Not provided       
   
Section V: Award Of Contract/Concession
      
Award of Contract/Concession No: 1
Contract No: Not Provided    Lot Number: Not Provided    Title: Not Provided

V.2) Award of contract/concession
      
      V.2.1) Date of contract award decision: 11/01/2019.
      
      V.2.2) Information about tenders
      The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No .

      V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire, No. 1:
          HC-One Ltd., 7712656
       Southgate House, Archer Street, Darlington, Darlington, DL3 6AH, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 1325351100, Email: james.oates@hc-one.co.uk
       Internet address: www.hc-one.co.uk
       NUTS Code: UKI4
   The contractor/concessionaire will be an SME: No    
   
         
      V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot/concession:
         Initial estimated total value of the contract: 7,735,000          
         Total value of the contract/lot/concession 7,735,000         
         Currency: GBP

      V.2.5) Information about subcontracting:
         The contract is likely to be subcontracted: No          


Section VI: Complementary Information

   VI.3) Additional Information:
      To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=369677512
GO-2019114-PRO-13876773 TKR-2019114-PRO-13876772   
   VI.4) Procedures for review
   
      VI.4.1) Review Body
          NEL Commissioning Support Unit
       Procurement Department, 1 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7NT, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2030495872, Email: nelcsu.welcpod-procurement@nhs.net
       Internet address: www.nelcsu.nhs.uk
   
      V1.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures:
                NEL Commissioning Support Unit
       1 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7NT, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2030495872, Email: nelcsu.welcpod-procurement@nhs.net.

      VI.4.3) Review procedure
      Not Provided    
      
      VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
          NEL Commissioning Support Unit
       Procurement Department, 1 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7NT, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 2030495872, Email: nelcsu.welcpod-procurement@nhs.net
       Internet address: www.nelcsu.nhs.uk
   
   VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 14/01/2019


Annex D1 - General Procurement
Justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union
Directive 2014/24/EU


2. Other justification for the award of the contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union

   The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive: Yes

3. Explanation

   Please explain in a clear and comprehensive manner why the award of the contract without prior publication in the Official Journal of the European Union is
   lawful, by stating the relevant facts and, as appropriate, the conclusions of law in accordance with the directive: (500 words maximum)
   Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group (WFCCG) have been considering options to address a capacity deficit of affordable nursing home beds within the borough. Market research was undertaken and commissioners identified a vacant and non-operational nursing home on Bisterne Avenue, Walthamstow and WFCCG now intends to commission nursing home beds from this site. London Borough of Waltham Forest’s Planning Register has reviewed the local market and can evidence that there are no other premises of sufficient quality standard and with the requisite CQC registration are currently available in the borough.

The alternative options of providing the nursing home services required by WFCCG is by commissioning new builds or converting existing sites into nursing homes. Both of these options will be subject to securing planning permission for a new build or change of use application for the conversion of existing sites. Both of these options would take several years to achieve and do not meet WFCCG’s need to commissioning additional nursing bed capacity now, to address the constraints which impacts patient care.

Due to these factors, WFCCG does not believe that there are providers in the market, who are able to provide the additional nursing home bed capacity that it requires within the boundary of Waltham Forest CCG area.