Contract

Nursing Associate Apprenticeship Training

  • Norfolk Community Health and Care
  • The Norfolk and Waveney STP

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2021/S 000-005749

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-029de6

Published 22 March 2021, 12:32pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Norfolk Community Health and Care

Norwich Community Hospital, Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TU

Email

steven.worley@nchc.nhs.uk

Telephone

+44 1603785866

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKH1 - East Anglia

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.norfolkcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk

Buyer's address

www.norfolkcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk

one.1) Name and addresses

The Norfolk and Waveney STP

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TU

Email

nwccg.contactus@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKH1 - East Anglia

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.norfolkandwaveneypartnership.org.uk/

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

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

Nursing Associate Apprenticeship Training

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 80561000 - Health training services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Norfolk Community Health and Care(NCHC) have established a framework agreement with multiple suppliers that will include the terms and conditions for making a number of call offs (Individual purchases).

Norfolk Community Health and Care, acting as the Procurement lead for the Norfolk and Waveney STP, has established a framework of capable and qualified partners to deliver a training cohort of Nursing Associate Apprenticeships. (https://www.england.nhs.uk/systemchange/view-stps/norfolk-and-waveney/)

This programme can only be delivered by providers who are geographically suited to provide a service to the Norfolk and Waveney STP footprint – or are able to provide suitable distance learning training.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £9,000,000

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKH1 - East Anglia
Main site or place of performance

East Anglia

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Norfolk Community Health and Care (acting as the Procurement lead for the Norfolk and Waveney STP provider Trusts) has establied a framework of capable and qualified partners to deliver a training cohort of Nursing Associate Apprenticeships. The programme aims to produce nursing associates who are fit to practice in the widest range of settings.The programme combines academic and work-based learning through close collaboration between employers and education providers. As an employee, a trainee nursing associate will be based in a particular organisation in a specific setting. But they will also experience working in alternative settings to gain a wide appreciation of many health and care environments to fulfil all the requirements of the programme. At the end of the programme, the trainee will be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviors relevant to employment as a nursing associate.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Quality / Weighting: 60

Cost criterion - Name: Cost / Weighting: 40

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

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: 2020/S 101-245149


Section five. Award of contract

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

1 January 2021

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: Yes

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

University of East Anglia

Norwich Research Park,

Norwich

NR4 7TJ

Telephone

+44 1603456161

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKH1 - East Anglia
National registration number

RC000651

The contractor is an SME

No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

The Open University

Walton Hall, Kents Hill

Milton Keynes

MK7 6AA

Telephone

+44 3003035303

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKJ12 - Milton Keynes
National registration number

03221613

The contractor is an SME

No

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £9,000,000

Total value of the contract/lot: £9,000,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

To view this notice, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=580578575

GO Reference: GO-2021322-PRO-17963723

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Norfolk Community Health and Care

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TU

Telephone

+44 1603785866

Country

United Kingdom

six.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

Norfolk Community Health and Care

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TU

Telephone

+44 1603785866

Country

United Kingdom

six.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Norfolk Community Health and Care

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR2 3TU

Telephone

+44 1603785866

Country

United Kingdom