Tender

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Intermediate Care Beds

  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
  • NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

F02: Contract notice

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-025582

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03f860

Published 31 August 2023, 11:26am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

Liverpool

Email

mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKD7 - Merseyside

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

Stoke on Trent

Email

mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKG2 - Shropshire and Staffordshire

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.midlandsandlancashirecsu.nhs.uk/

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

http://demand.sproc.net.

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

http://demand.sproc.net.

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

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Intermediate Care Beds

Reference number

WHISP - 202

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85100000 - Health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board who are the Contracting Authority for this opportunity.

The Authority is looking for providers to deliver an Intermediate Care Beds Service to patients in the Southport & Formby area of Sefton Place. The Authority is looking to potentially commission up to 35 beds to be located in the Southport & Formby area of Sefton Place and ideally on one site.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £11,000,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKD7 - Merseyside
Main site or place of performance

sites within the Sefton Place area, Merseyside

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board who are the Contracting Authority for this opportunity.

The Authority is looking for providers to deliver an Intermediate Care Beds Service to patients in the Southport & Formby area of Sefton Place. The Authority is looking to potentially commission up to 35 beds to be located in the Southport & Formby area of Sefton Place and ideally on one site. The ICB has a financial envelope of £1295 per bed per week. Bids submitted above this value will not be considered.

The potential contract will be valued at approximately £2,200,000 per year; and the contract duration will be for 3 years from 24 January 2024 with the potential to extend for a further two year period; giving a total potential contract value of £11,000,000.

Details of the DPS , together with full instructions are provided in the indicative tender documents available to

download from http://demand.sproc.net. Interested parties must register their organisation and then download the indicative tender documents from the supplier contract management system https://www.sproc.net

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: £11,000,000

two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Start date

24 January 2024

End date

23 January 2029

This contract is subject to renewal

No

two.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.14) Additional information

This contract is for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations.

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. This is not a call for tenders and the Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept any tender received and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for tenders should as consider necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received during this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date

28 September 2023

four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English

four.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date

29 September 2023

Local time

12:00pm


Section six. Complementary information

six.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

Liverpool

Country

United Kingdom