Bedford Borough Council: BBCQ521074 Integrated Sexual Health Services

UK-Bedford: Health services.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Bedford Borough Council
      Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP, United Kingdom
      Email: operational.procurement@bedford.gov.uk, URL: www.bedford.gov.uk, URL: www.bedford.gov.uk
      Electronic Submission URL: www.delta-esourcing.com

      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:
      Regional or local authority

   I.3) Main activity:
      General Public Services
      Health

   I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities:
      The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: Yes

Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
   II.1)Description
      II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: BBCQ521074 Integrated Sexual Health Services
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 25

         Region Codes: UKH2 - Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire         
      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:
      Health services. Bedford Borough Council (BBC) & Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) are responsible for the provision of Public Health Services for their residents. This will be a joint procurement exercise led by BBC on behalf of BBC and CBC. They are seeking expressions of interest and tender submissions from suitably qualified and experienced providers who can meet all of the legal requirements of Local Authority contracts.


Key Objectives

Bedford Borough Council (BBC) & Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC), have been working to improve choice, quality, and value for money, of the sexual health services and are committed to significantly improving outcomes as well as ensuring that these improvements are sustainable.

We are looking to award to a single Provider that can work collaboratively with other providers in the Region, with a view to delivering Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 Sexual Health Services and who can provide quality care of the highest degree to our residents. The successful provider will be required to provide an integrated service that is easily accessible to all our residents

Constraints

As the bidder community is aware, all public sector budgets are under the pressure of cuts and reductions in grants and support from Central Government. As such CBC and BBC have to deliver more services for a lower budget, and are looking to providers that can take advantage of streamlined and collaborative working as they will be a single point of contact and provider for levels 1 to 3 of sexual health services. . Accordingly, we are expecting providers to submit tenders that are below the £2,300,000 p.a. (£16.1m over 7 years including extensions or 2 years) threshold budget we currently have for delivery of these services.
Contract

The start date for the contract is in November 2016 for a contract period of 5 years with the possibility of an extension of a further 2 years.

Conditions of Participation

BBC are the lead authority on behalf of CBC and will be running an ‘open’ procurement process. Organisations wishing to register an interest in tendering should go to https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ to express their interest. You will also be able view and respond to the tender at the same time, view other attached documents and send questions and queries via the messaging system within the website.

The Council is conducting the procurement under the Open Procedure pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘The Regulations’). For the avoidance of any doubt, the services to be procured fall within Part 2 (Rules Implementing the Public Contracts Directive), Chapter 3 (Particular Procurement Regimes), and Section 7 (Social and Other Specific Services) of the Regulations ‘light touch’.

All communications, questions regarding this tender or the procurement process must be via the messaging system within the Delta e-tendering website.

ITT Reference number: BBC-Q-521074
Access Code 32C4KU9HRA


If you have need any assistance using the e-tendering website please call 0845 270 7050 or email Delta E-Sourcing. All communication and questions must be via the https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ website. Access Code 32C4KU9HRA.

The deadline for the submission of Tender Proposals is 29th March 2016, 12:00 via the Delta e-sourcing website.
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         85100000 - Health services.
         

      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:
      Bedford Borough Council (BBC) & Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) are responsible for the provision of Public Health Services for their residents. This will be a joint procurement exercise led by BBC on behalf of BBC and CBC. They are seeking expressions of interest and tender submissions from suitably qualified and experienced providers who can meet all of the legal requirements of Local Authority contracts.


Key Objectives

Bedford Borough Council (BBC) & Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC), have been working to improve choice, quality, and value for money, of the sexual health services and are committed to significantly improving outcomes as well as ensuring that these improvements are sustainable.

We are looking to award to a single Provider that can work collaboratively with other providers in the Region, with a view to delivering Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 Sexual Health Services and who can provide quality care of the highest degree to our residents. The successful provider will be required to provide an integrated service that is easily accessible to all our residents

Constraints

As the bidder community is aware, all public sector budgets are under the pressure of cuts and reductions in grants and support from Central Government. As such CBC and BBC have to deliver more services for a lower budget, and are looking to providers that can take advantage of streamlined and collaborative working as they will be a single point of contact and provider for levels 1 to 3 of sexual health services. . Accordingly, we are expecting providers to submit tenders that are below the £2,300,000 p.a. (£16.1m over 7 years including extensions) threshold budget we currently have for delivery of these services.

Conditions of Participation

BBC are the lead authority on behalf of CBC and will be running an ‘open’ procurement process. Organisations wishing to register an interest in tendering should go to https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ to express their interest. You will also be able view and respond to the tender at the same time, view other attached documents and send questions and queries via the messaging system within the website.

The Council is conducting the procurement under the Open Procedure pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘The Regulations’). For the avoidance of any doubt, the services to be procured fall within Part 2 (Rules Implementing the Public Contracts Directive), Chapter 3 (Particular Procurement Regimes), and Section 7 (Social and Other Specific Services) of the Regulations ‘light touch’.

All communications, questions regarding this tender or the procurement process must be via the messaging system within the Delta e-tendering website.

ITT Reference number: BBC-Q-521074
Access Code 32C4KU9HRA


If you have need any assistance using the e-tendering website please call 0845 270 7050 or email Delta E-Sourcing. All communication and questions must be via the https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ website. Access Code 32C4KU9HRA.

The deadline for the submission of Tender Proposals is 29th March 2016, 12:00 via the Delta e-sourcing website.                  
         Estimated value excluding VAT:
         Range between: 1 and 16,100,000
         Currency: GBP
               
      
      II.2.2)Options: No          
         II.2.3)Information about renewals:
            This contract is subject to renewal: No          
   II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion      
         Duration in months: 84 (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: Not Provided      
   III.2)Conditions For Participation
      III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
         The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
         
         A full list of these criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr
         
         Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists. Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so. Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
      
      III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
         Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         Please refer to ITT issued to interested organisations. Minimum levels of standards required will also be set out in the ITT.         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         Please refer to ITT issued to interested organisations. Minimum levels of standards required will also be set out in the ITT.
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         Please refer to ITT issued to interested organisations. Minimum levels of standards required will also be set out in the ITT.         
         Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
         Please refer to ITT issued to interested organisations. Minimum levels of standards required will also be set out in the ITT.      
      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: Open
   
   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: No       

   IV.3)Administrative Information
      IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: BBCQ521074      
      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: 11/03/2016
      Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 12:00
         Payable documents: No       
      
      IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
         Date: 29/03/2016
         Time: 12:00      
      IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:         English
         
      IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender Not Provided      
      IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders
         Date: 29/03/2016
         Time: 12:00
         Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: No


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.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Bedford:-Health-services./32C4KU9HRA

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/32C4KU9HRA
GO-201621-PRO-7693548 TKR-201621-PRO-7693547
   
   VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
      VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
      Bedford Borough Council
      Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP, United Kingdom
      Email: operational.procurement@bedford.gov.uk, URL: www.bedford.gov.uk

      Body responsible for mediation procedures:
               Bedford Borough Council
         Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP, United Kingdom
         Email: operational'procurement@bedford.gov.uk, URL: www.bedford.gov.uk

      VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided   
   
      VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
            Bedford Borough Council
      Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP, United Kingdom
      Email: operational.procurement@bedford.gov.uk, URL: www.bedford.gov.uk

   VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 01/02/2016

ANNEX A

   IV) Address of the other contracting authority on behalf of which the contracting authority is purchasing
      Purchased on behalf of other contracting authority details:
         1: Contracting Authority
      Bedford Borough Council
      Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP, United Kingdom