Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS England
1st Floor, Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
one.3) Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted. Further information can be obtained at
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
New Hospital Programme – Programme Delivery Partner (PDP)
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 71541000 - Construction project management services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHSE wishes to appoint a Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) for the New Hospital Programme (NHP) to be the long-term partner to the programme.
NHSE is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced organisations with the capability of delivering a high profile and important professional services contract. The successful Tenderer (“Consultant”) will provide expertise in scheme design, programme and project management and commercial expertise to allow NHP to develop a more standardised approach to design and delivery, increase participation from suppliers in the health infrastructure market, and unlock efficiencies and accelerate delivery to allow NHSE to meet the Government’s commitment to deliver the biggest hospital building programme in a generation. NHP’s ambition is to transform operations across digital, clinical, and workforce workstreams, to identify requirements and translate these into national standards and policies, thereby improving benefits for patients and staff. The PDP interfaces with and supports transformation workstreams, for example supporting the transfer of learning from more advanced Trusts to later ones. The PDP will work with NHSE and NHS Trusts to ensure that the programmatic benefits are increasingly embedded in hospital design and delivery as these benefits are developed.
The scope of services and contractual requirements are more particularly described in the Selection Questionnaire Pack (SQP) and accompanying procurement documents.
Candidates are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents and VI.3 Additional Information in this Contract Notice.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £307,000,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 71000000 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
- 71700000 - Monitoring and control services
- 71200000 - Architectural and related services
- 71241000 - Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis
- 71242000 - Project and design preparation, estimation of costs
- 71245000 - Approval plans, working drawings and specifications
- 72224000 - Project management consultancy services
- 71500000 - Construction-related services
- 71900000 - Laboratory services
- 71541000 - Construction project management services
- 71310000 - Consultative engineering and construction services
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 72300000 - Data services
- 71312000 - Structural engineering consultancy services
- 71313000 - Environmental engineering consultancy services
- 71321000 - Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings
- 71315000 - Building services
- 71300000 - Engineering services
- 79993100 - Facilities management services
- 79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services
- 79994000 - Contract administration services
- 72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
Main site or place of performance
New Hospital Programme is an England wide programme. Services may be performed at various sites across England. PDP Services to be performed in the UK only.
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The New Hospital Programme was created to deliver the biggest hospital building programme in a generation. The Conservative Manifesto in 2019 included a commitment that ‘[w]e will build and fund 40 new hospitals over the next 10 years’ and in October 2020, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister at the time, announced a commitment to build 48 hospitals by 2030 (comprising 8 pre-existing schemes and 40 new hospitals). In May 2023 the government confirmed their commitment to deliver 40 new hospitals, and to establish the capability and capacity to deliver a longer-term pipeline of hospitals beyond 2030/31.
This procurement is for the long-term Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) for the New Hospitals Programme. NHSE wishes to appoint a PDP to be the long-term partner to the programme.
NHSE is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced organisations with the capability of delivering a high profile and important professional services contract. The successful Tenderer (“Consultant”) will provide expertise in scheme design, programme and project management and commercial expertise to allow NHP to develop a more standardised approach to design and delivery, increase participation from suppliers in the health infrastructure market, and unlock efficiencies and accelerate delivery to allow NHSE to meet the Government’s commitment to deliver the biggest hospital building programme in a generation. NHP’s ambition is to transform operations across digital, clinical, and workforce workstreams, to identify requirements and translate these into national standards and policies, thereby improving benefits for patients and staff. The PDP interfaces with and supports transformation workstreams, for example supporting the transfer of learning from more advanced Trusts to later ones. The PDP will work with NHSE and NHS Trusts to ensure that the programmatic benefits are increasingly embedded in hospital design and delivery as these benefits are developed.
The procurement to be conducted by NHSE, the scope of services and contractual requirements are more particularly described in the Selection Questionnaire Pack (SQP) and accompanying procurement documents.
Candidates are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents and VI.3 Additional Information in this Contract Notice.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
two.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £307,000,000
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months
126
This contract is subject to renewal
No
two.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 3
Maximum number: 4
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
NHSE will select Candidates on the basis described in the accompanying procurement documents. See ITC paragraph 4.11.
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
1. Optional Scope - NHSE reserves the right to use the Contract for wider NHSE requirements beyond NHP (NHSE Ancillary Services) and is also procuring the Contract for and on behalf of DHSC and SCCL in respect of Optional Scope. Further information on Optional Scope is included in the accompanying procurement documents. See ITC paragraph 2.1.5 (Optional Scope) and ITC Appendix A1: Outline Scope.
2. Permitted modification - Digital Delivery – NHSE intends to procure a digital delivery partner separately from the PDP. Due to the similar nature of the services and ability for greater integration and efficiencies, NHSE reserves the right (by way of agreement with the Consultant) to novate digital delivery services to the Consultant. Digital delivery may therefore form part of the PDP Scope of Services during the Contract duration. Accordingly, the anticipated scope of the digital delivery services has been included in this Contract Notice and accompanying procurement documents (including ITC Appendix A1: Outline Scope).
3. Transfer to replacement contracting authority – NHSE reserves the right to transfer the Contract in whole or in part to another public body (or bodies) that during the term of the Contract assume NHSE’s delivery obligations (in whole or in part) to deliver the New Hospital Programme or new NHS hospitals through another iteration of the New Hospital Programme.
4. Trust support - the Consultant will provide services to support NHSE and NHS Trusts to ensure that the programmatic benefits are increasingly embedded in hospital design and delivery as these benefits are developed. The PDP Services will also enable NHSE to support the Trusts in the delivery of schemes.
5. Extension to duration of the Contract - NHSE reserves the right to extend the term of the Contract in whole or in part or any other combination for up to a further 4 years to no later than 31 March 2035. See VI.3 Additional Information in this Contract Notice for further information.
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
two.2.14) Additional information
Applicants are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents for information about conditions for participation.
Section three. Legal, economic, financial and technical information
three.1) Conditions for participation
three.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
List and brief description of conditions
Applicants are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents for information about conditions for participation.
three.1.2) Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria
Applicants are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents for the selection criteria for this procurement
three.1.3) Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria
Applicants are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents for the technical and professional ability for this procurement
three.2) Conditions related to the contract
three.2.2) Contract performance conditions
Applicants are referred to the SQP and accompanying procurement documents for information about NHSE’s contractual requirements.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Competitive procedure with negotiation
four.1.4) Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
four.1.5) Information about negotiation
The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without conducting negotiations
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2021/S 000-013023
four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date
19 January 2024
Local time
12:00pm
four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
four.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
Section six. Complementary information
six.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: No
six.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
six.3) Additional information
1) Terms in this Contract Notice with an initial capital letter have the meanings given in the SQP. See SQP Table 1.3 (Glossary of terms and definitions).
2) To express interest in the Contract, Candidates must complete and submit the SQ Response on the NHP e-Procurement Portal by the submission deadline for SQ Responses stated in the SQP (SQ Response Deadline). Please note that the SQ Response Deadline is a precise time and Candidates should allow sufficient time to upload their SQ Response.
3) All Candidates are required to express an interest by registering on the NHP e-Procurement Portal: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
4) For further assistance contact the NHP e-Procurement Portal helpdesk at: (Candidates can contact the Atamis helpdesk at support-health@atamis.co.uk or by calling 0800 9956035 for technical assistance.)
5) To find this opportunity, register on NHP e-procurement system here: https://health-family.force.com/login
• Once logged in click 'Find Opportunities' and search for ‘NHP Programme Delivery Partner or C221339'
• Click 'Register Interest'
• Once you have registered your interest you will be able to view the Requirements and submit a response to the question within the portal
• Any messages about the opportunity should be sent via the e-procurement system. You can do this by going to the home page and:
o Click on 'My proposals & Quotes'
o Click the relevant Project Title
o Click 'Messages' & 'New Message
6) Candidates are required to complete, sign and return the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) set out in ITC Appendix C before they will be given access to the Reading Room, containing relevant background information for this procurement. Access to the Reading Room will not be granted until the signed NDA and declaration have been received. For further information, please see ITC Appendix B (NHP Background Information and NHP Policies).
7) A Candidate may be a single organisation or a Consortium. Both a Candidate that is a single entity and a Candidate that is a Consortium, may rely on the capacity and abilities of an individual Party or Parties in order to meet the Minimum Standards. Refer to the SQP section 3.2 ("Different types of Candidate") for more guidance. A Candidate may only submit one SQ Response. Candidate’s attention is drawn to the provisions on Conflicts of Interest relating to this procurement and the Contract set out in the SQP.
8) Section I: Contracting authority – The Contract is being procured by and on behalf of NHSE for and on behalf of itself in respect of NHSE’s needs and requirements for the New Hospital Programme. However, Candidates should note that NHSE reserves the right to use the Contract for wider NHSE requirements (Ancillary NHSE Services) and is also procuring the Contract for and on behalf of DHSC and SCCL in respect of Optional Scope (see ITC paragraph 2.1.5 (Optional Scope) for further information). Further, NHSE reserves the right to transfer the Contract in whole or in part to another public body (or bodies) that during the term of the Contract assume NHSE’s delivery obligations (in whole or in part) to deliver the New Hospital Programme or new NHS hospitals through another iteration of the New Hospital Programme.
9) II.1.5 / II.2.6 (Estimated Value): £307 million (excluding VAT) for the first 48 months of the Contract (in accordance with Public Contracts Regulations 2015, reg. 6(19)). For further information about the basis on which this estimate has been calculated and further information on NHSE’s estimated value over the whole Contract term (including the estimated values of the Optional Scope), please see the SQP. All estimated values included within this Contract Notice and the SQP are to be treated as estimates only and do not constitute a guaranteed or cap on spend under the Contract.
10) II.2.7) Duration of the contract: The duration of 126 months is the maximum possible duration for the Contract based on the NHP programme as at the date of this Contract Notice. However, the Contract with the successful Tenderer will be for an initial term of 6.5 years, subject to a unilateral break clause that may be exercised by NHSE after the first 4 years. In addition, NHSE reserves the right to extend the term of the Contract in whole or in part or any other combination for up to a further 4 years to no later than 31 March 2035 (or 10.5 years in total). Other dates and timescales in this Contract Notice and in the SQP are estimated and may be subject to change.
11) IV.1.1) (Type of procedure): NHSE is procuring the Contract in accordance with the competitive procedure with negotiation (CPN) pursuant to PCR 2015, reg. 29.
12) IV.1.4 and IV.1.5 (Information about negotiation): NHSE reserves the right not to conduct negotiations with Tenderers and may award the Contract on the basis of Initial Tenders without negotiation in accordance with PCR 2015, reg. 29(15). NHSE also reserves the right to conduct negotiations in successive stages in order to reduce the number of tenders to be negotiated in accordance with PCR 2015, reg. 29(19). Candidates are referred to the SQP for further information on how NHSE intends to conduct the CPN process.
13) A response to this Contract Notice does not guarantee that a Candidate will be invited to participate in negotiation. The award process may be terminated or suspended at any time without cost or liability to NHSE. NHSE does not bind itself to enter into any contract(s) arising out of the procedures envisaged by this Contract Notice. No contractual rights express or implied arise out of this Contract Notice or the procedures envisaged by it. Any contract(s) let by NHSE may provide that the scope or duration of the Contract may be extended at NHSE's discretion. NHSE reserves the right to vary its requirements and the procedure relating to the conduct of the award process. NHSE reserves the right to disqualify any Candidates on terms set out in the SQP.
14) Candidates and Tenderers shall be solely responsible for and liable for all costs associated with and arising out of or in connection with responding to this Contract Notice and any SQ Response and with submitting any tender, howsoever incurred.
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
The High Court
The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
Country
United Kingdom