Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Brighton & Hove City Council
Hove Town Hall,Norton Road
HOVE
BN33BQ
Contact
Jessica Smith
procurement@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKJ21 - Brighton and Hove
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via
https://www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
one.5) Main activity
General public services
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
BHCC JS Locally Commissioned Services - Community Pharmacies
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Utilising the Prior Information Notice as a Call for Competition procedure, Brighton & Hove City Council is inviting expressions of interest from providers for the delivery of Community Pharmacy Locally Commissioned Services ('LCS').
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £1,611,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKJ - South East (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
These services are a collection of Public Health support services that are funded by the Public Health grant and are commissioned by Brighton & Hove City Council Public Health Service.
The Contract/s shall be for a term of three (3) years, with two further optional extension periods of three (3) years each. The Service/s shall commence on the 1st of April 2023.
The budget for the Services is agreed annually and is estimated as £0.537m for the first three year period of the Contract, or approximately £0.179m per year.
Payment for the Services shall be against a set schedule of rates and will be paid against activity delivered.
Budgets are monitored quarterly and if necessary, thresholds will be set per provider to prevent activity exceeding overall budget.
The Services included in the Community Pharmacy LCS are:
(1) the Community Pharmacy stop smoking service which covers the generic adult smoking cessation service, plus the following:
(a) the Young Persons Stop Smoking Service,
(b) the Nicotine Replacement Therapy Voucher Scheme, and
(c) the Provision of Varenicline on Patient Group Direction,
(2) the Sexual Health and Contraceptive Service; emergency hormonal contraception plus advice, C-Card condoms plus, chlamydia tests, and as an additional optional service chlamydia treatment,
(3) the Healthy Living Pharmacy service to improve uptake and access of health improvement services and advice, health campaigns.
Interested providers are encouraged to submit their expressions of interest via email to procurement@brighton-hove.gov.uk by the closing date identified in this notice.
The Contract/s will be awarded by competitive procedure with negotiation without further publication.
Tender documents will be provided to providers that have expressed an interest after the closing date identified in this notice. For the avoidance of doubt, before the closing date, no other information or documentation is available to providers for review other than that provided in this notice.
two.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £1,611,000
two.2.7) Duration of the contract or the framework agreement
Duration in months
108
Section four. Procedure
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest
Date
13 February 2023
Local time
12:00pm
four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English