Swindon Borough Council: Interim Domiciliary Care Framework

UK-Swindon: Health and social work services.
Preliminary Questions
   This notice is for Prior information notice: No
   This notice is for Contract notice: Yes
   This notice is for Contract award notice: No
         
Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1) Name and addresses:
       Swindon Borough Council
       Wat Tyler House (West), Beckhampton Street, Swindon, SN1 2JH, United Kingdom
       Tel. +44 7881281824, Email: tgagetta@swindon.gov.uk
       Contact: Tracy Gagetta
       Main Address: www.swindon.gov.uk
       NUTS Code: UKK14
      Specifications and additional documents: As Above
I.2) Joint procurement:
   The contract involves joint procurement: No.
   The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No .
I.3) Communication       
   The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at:              
         https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/
   Further information can be obtained from: the above mentioned address    
   Tenders or requests to participate must be sent:          
         to the abovementioned address

I.4) Type of the contracting authority    
   Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity:    
   General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement
   II.1.1) Title: Interim Domiciliary Care Framework          
         Reference number: PG00047          
   II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:       
      85000000 - Health and social work services.
   II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICE

   II.1.4) Short description:
   Swindon Borough Council (SBC), wishes providers to submit tenders for its requirements for an interim domiciliary care framework.

The contract will run from July 2017 for an initial term of two years with the option to extend for two further periods of one year each, subject to satisfactory contract performance and budget availability. The total potential contract term will be four years.

The estimated contract value will be between £0 and £8.65M per annum, totaling £0 to £17.3M during the initial two year term and £0 to £34.6M across the total contract term including extensions. Volumes and values of work are estimated and not guaranteed.

All tender documents are available in the attachments section on the tender advert on the South West Portal available at www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk Reference: DN250367          
   II.1.5) Estimated total value:       
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 34,600,000 - Currency : GBP
   II.1.6) Information about lots:
      This contract is divided into lots: No

   II.2) Lot Description          
   II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s):       
      85000000 - Health and social work services.       
   II.2.3) Place of performance:       
      Region Codes:               
         UKK14 - Swindon
   II.2.4) Description of the procurement:       
      Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of an Interim Domiciliary Care Framework. This will be accreditation based framework that ensures the council a basic level of compliance of service, agreement to set hourly tariff and submission and monitoring of key performance indicators and data on a quarterly basis.

All providers who meet the criteria will be awarded onto the framework; providers will be required to compete for each new piece of work and evaluated against the criteria outlined in the tender documents.

This interim framework will provide domiciliary care provision for the period prior to the main/master domiciliary contract anticipated to being in place in autumn 2017. During the framework period the Council will work with providers to move to an outcome approach rather than a time & task focus.

Full details relating to the Services are provided in the tender document.    
   II.2.6) Estimate value
      Value excluding VAT (give figures only) : 34,600,000 - currency : GBP        
   II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement                    
      Duration in months - 24    
   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 run from July 2017 for an initial term of two years with the option to extend for two further period of one year each, subject to satisfactory performance and available budget. The total potential contract term will be four years.    
   
   
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information

III.1) Conditions for participation
   III.1.4) Objective rules and criteria for participation    
      List and brief description of rules and criteria:
         All criteria that are stated within the tender documents to be awarded onto the framework            

III.2) Conditions related to the contract
   III.2.1) Information about a particular profession    
      Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision:          
         Not Provided    
   III.2.2) Contract performance conditions          
      Not Provided        
      
Section IV: Procedure   

IV.1) Description   
   IV.1.1) Type of procedure              
         Open procedure                               
   IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system          
         The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement                    
         In the case of framework agreements justification for any duration exceeding 4 years:                
            Not Provided    
   IV.1.6) Information about electronic auction
         An electronic auction will be used - Not Provided          
   IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA )
         The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) - Not Provided
IV.2) Administrative information       
   IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure    
   Notice number in OJEU: Not Provided    
   IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest          
         Date - 19/04/2017 Local Time - 12:00       
   IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:       
         English               

Section VI: Complementary Information       
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows                        
VI.3) Additional Information:       
   To view this notice, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=245077097
GO-2017321-PRO-9843774 TKR-2017321-PRO-9843773              
VI.4) Procedures For Appeal
   VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures:
       Swindon Borough Council
       Euclid Street, Swindon, SN2 2JH, United Kingdom                
   VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures:
       Swindon Borough Council
       Swindon, United Kingdom       
   VI.4.3) Review procedure
      Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:                
         Not Provided       
   VI.4.4) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
       Swindon Borough Council
       Euclid Street, Swindon, SN2 2JH, United Kingdom       

VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 21/03/2017