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Title: | Domestic and Support Services |
Notice type: | Contract Notice |
Authority: | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust |
Nature of contract: | Services |
Procedure: | Restricted |
Short Description: | 1.0 This Domestic & Support Services Contract provides the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust with cleaning, hostess, portering and courier services across its various locations in Norfolk and Suffolk. 1.1 Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Trust has eight major sites with in-patients and several smaller sites from which Community Teams provide services in the community. Facilities services are currently managed from two core sites at Hellesdon on the outskirts of Norwich and St Clements in Ipswich. 1.2 The Domestic and Support Services Contract will provide the Trust with a Hostess/meal, Portering/courier, and Domestic cleaning service. It is important to provide a high standard of healthy eating and clean buildings across the Trust so that patients and other service users have a clean, healthy, safe and infection free environment conducive to their recovery. It is also important that Trust staff have a clean working environment and visitors can see that the Trust is committed to high standards evidenced both through internal quality assurance monitoring and through the P.L.A.C.E. audits undertaken by the Trust with patient representatives as required annually by the governments Health and Social Care Information Centre. 1.3 The cleaning specification in this contract is based on NHS cleaning guidelines and the cleaning performance measured on the NHS standard of Cleanliness and any future NHS guidelines. 1.4 The hostess/meal services have been incorporated into the Domestic Contract to enable a more effective and flexible use of the workforce across the whole of the Trust. 1.5 By including the Portering and Courier services into the domestic contract it is intended that necessary transfer of documents and mail, pharmacy, stores and equipment is mainly carried out in a single coordinated schedule. 1.6 The Trusts objective in combining the four strands is to more effectively use resources and benefit from an improved overall performance and efficiency of services. 1.7 It is the responsibility of the Contractor to fulfil these aims, provide a well managed, well trained workforce committed to high levels of service using the most advanced and effective cleaning techniques to meet these objectives and to use the most effective and efficient model to deliver the services. |
Published: | 23/07/2014 15:37 |
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Section I: Contracting Authority
I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich, IP1 2BX, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1473329423, Fax. +44 1473329019, Email: paul.a.smith@nsft.nhs.uk
Attn: Paul Smith
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:
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: Domestic and Support Services
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES
Service Category: 27
Region Codes: UKH13 - Norfolk
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:
Cleaning services. 1.0 This Domestic & Support Services Contract provides the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust with cleaning, hostess, portering and courier services across its various locations in Norfolk and Suffolk.
1.1 Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
The Trust has eight major sites with in-patients and several smaller sites from which Community Teams provide services in the community. Facilities services are currently managed from two core sites at Hellesdon on the outskirts of Norwich and St Clements in Ipswich.
1.2 The Domestic and Support Services Contract will provide the
Trust with a Hostess/meal, Portering/courier, and Domestic cleaning service. It is important to provide a high standard of healthy eating and clean buildings across the Trust so that patients and other service users have a clean, healthy, safe and infection free environment conducive to their recovery. It is also important that Trust staff have a clean working environment and visitors can see that the Trust is committed to high standards evidenced both through internal quality assurance monitoring and through the P.L.A.C.E. audits undertaken by the Trust with patient representatives as required annually by the governments Health and Social Care Information Centre.
1.3 The cleaning specification in this contract is based on NHS cleaning guidelines and the cleaning performance measured on the NHS standard of Cleanliness and any future NHS guidelines.
1.4 The hostess/meal services have been incorporated into the Domestic Contract to enable a more effective and flexible use of the workforce across the whole of the Trust.
1.5 By including the Portering and Courier services into the domestic contract it is intended that necessary transfer of documents and mail, pharmacy, stores and equipment is mainly carried out in a single coordinated schedule.
1.6 The Trusts objective in combining the four strands is to more effectively use resources and benefit from an improved overall performance and efficiency of services.
1.7 It is the responsibility of the Contractor to fulfil these aims, provide a well managed, well trained workforce committed to high levels of service using the most advanced and effective cleaning techniques to meet these objectives and to use the most effective and efficient model to deliver the services.
II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
90910000 - Cleaning 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:
Not Provided
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1,000,000
Currency: GBP
II.2.2)Options: Not Provided
II.2.3)Information about renewals:
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion
Not Provided
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:
Not Provided
III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:
Not Provided
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Technical capacity - means of proof required
Not Provided
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: Not Provided
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: Not Provided
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:
Not Provided
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: Not Provided
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Not Provided
IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date: 22/08/2014
Time: 17:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: Not Provided
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: Not Provided
VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: Not Provided
VI.3)Additional Information: For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Ipswich:-Cleaning-services./74BJUC2JMA
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/74BJUC2JMA
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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: 23/07/2014
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