Yatish Shah: Young People's Specialist Substance Misuse Services

UK-LEICESTER: Welfare services for children and young people.

Section I: Contracting Authority
   I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
      Leicester City Council
      Contracts & Assurance Service,, A Block, 2nd Floor, New Walk Centre, Welford Place, LEICESTER, LE1 6ZG, United Kingdom
      Tel. +44 1164542348
      Attn: Mr Yatish Shah

      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

   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: Young People's Specialist Substance Misuse Services
      II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES         
         Service Category: 25

         Region Codes: UKF21 - Leicester         
      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:
      Welfare services for children and young people. Health and social work services. Health services. Miscellaneous health services. Community health services. Medical practice and related services. Medical practice services. Medical specialist services. Services provided by medical personnel. General-practitioner services. Psychiatrist or psychologist services. Social work and related services. Provision of services to the community. Guidance and counselling services. Guidance services. Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions. Rehabilitation services. Leicester City Council (the Council), commission in collaboration with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire, Specialist Substance Misuse services for young people within the City of Leicester.

The Council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to submit a tender for the provision of Young People’s Specialist Substance Misuse Services.
         
      II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
         85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people.
         
         85000000 - Health and social work services.
         
         85100000 - Health services.
         
         85140000 - Miscellaneous health services.
         
         85323000 - Community health services.
         
         85120000 - Medical practice and related services.
         
         85121000 - Medical practice services.
         
         85121200 - Medical specialist services.
         
         85141000 - Services provided by medical personnel.
         
         85121100 - General-practitioner services.
         
         85121270 - Psychiatrist or psychologist services.
         
         85300000 - Social work and related services.
         
         75200000 - Provision of services to the community.
         
         85312300 - Guidance and counselling services.
         
         85312310 - Guidance services.
         
         85312400 - Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions.
         
         85312500 - Rehabilitation 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:
      Leicester City Council (the Council), commission in collaboration with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire, Specialist Substance Misuse services for young people within the City of Leicester.

The Council is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to submit a tender for the provision of Young People’s Specialist Substance Misuse Services.

This tender seeks to secure a Service Provider for the provision of Young People’s Specialist Substance Misuse Services from 1st July 2014 for an initial period of two years, until 30th June 2016, with the possibility to extend for a further one more year until 30th June 2017 (2+1) subject to agreement by the Council. The value of the funding offered for this contract for the contract period (2+1) will be up to £986,841 (£328,947 per annum) (excluding VAT).

The Service Provider’s performance shall be measured regularly (in terms of the performance measures identified in the specification) and the Service Provider shall provide accurate and reliable management information to the Council as and when required.

It is Council’s preliminary view that TUPE Regulations may apply in respect of this contract The Council expects the successful provider comply with the Best Value Authorities Staff Transfers (Pensions) Direction 2007 and either apply for Admitted Body Status or offer a broadly comparable pension scheme.         
         Estimated value excluding VAT: 986,841
         Currency: GBP
                        
      
      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: 24 (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:
      The provision of appropriate guarantees, bonds and warranties is reserved.
      
      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:
         AS PER THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTATION.
      
      III.2.3)Technical capacity
         Technical capacity - means of proof required         
         
         Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
         AS PER THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTATION.      
      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: 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: 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: Yes
         Prior information notice
            Notice number in OJEU: 2013/S 86 - 146027 of 29/04/2013
               
         Other previous publications: No                

      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: 29/01/2014
         Time: 14:00      
      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
         Not Provided

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: 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.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-LEICESTER:-Welfare-services-for-children-and-young-people./D867597P2K

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/D867597P2K
GO-20131216-PRO-5336417 TKR-20131216-PRO-5336416
   
   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: 16/12/2013

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