Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
North Somerset Council
Town Hall, Walliscote Grove Road
Weston-super-Mare
BS23 1UJ
Contact
Mrs Michelle Dickson
michelle.dickson@n-somerset.gov.uk
Telephone
+44 1275888250
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/
one.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via
https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/
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
0-19 Public Health Nursing & Healthy Child Programme
Reference number
DN493254
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
• Health Visiting Services – delivering the Healthy Child Programme 0-5 and 5 universal mandated health visiting reviews.
• School Nursing (5-19) Services – delivering the Healthy Child programme 5-19 and National Child Measurement Programme.
• Specialist Breastfeeding and Parental Adult Mental Health Nursing Services (integrated within the Health Visiting Service).
• Children’s Looked After Nursing Services.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £25,042,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
Main site or place of performance
North Somerset Council
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
North Somerset Council is looking to recommission it's 0-19 public health nursing services for service delivery from 1st April 2022.
The service will run for five years (60 months) until March 2027, with option of an additional two-year (24 month) extension until March 2029.
It will be a fixed price contract with 100% quality scoring criteria applied to the tender evaluation. Estimated at £3,577,359 per year, the maximum total value of the contract is £25,042,000 over seven years.
The national Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0-19 was set out in 2009 and is an evidence-based universal programme available to all children and aims to ensure that every child gets the good start they need to lay the foundations of a healthy life.
The 0-5 element of the HCP is led by health visiting services and the 5-19 element is led by school nursing services, with input from other partners as appropriate. The universal reach of the HCP provides an invaluable opportunity from early in a child’s life to identify families that are in need of additional support and children who are at risk of poor outcomes.
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out a local authority’s statutory responsibility for delivering and commissioning public health services for children and young people aged 5-19 years. This also includes the requirement to provide for the weighing and measuring of certain children through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP).
Responsibility for children's public health commissioning for 0-5 year olds, specifically health visiting, transferred from NHS England to local authorities in October 2015. Regulation requires that all families with babies receive five health visitor checks before their child reaches 2 and a half years old.
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: £24,500,000
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months
60
This contract is subject to renewal
Yes
Description of renewals
Option of an additional two-year (24 month) extension.
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
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 three. Legal, economic, financial and technical information
three.1) Conditions for participation
three.1.2) Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
three.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Competitive procedure with negotiation
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.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date
29 April 2021
Local time
1:00pm
four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
Section six. Complementary information
six.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: Yes
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
North Somerset Council
Weston-Super-Mare
Country
United Kingdom
Internet address
six.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
North Somerset Council
Weston-Super-Mare
Country
United Kingdom
Internet address
six.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures
N/A
six.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
North Somerset Council
Weston-Super-Mare
Country
United Kingdom