Healthwatch Lancashire Contract
Local Healthwatch Service will help to ensure that the views and feedback from local people are an integral part of local commissioning across health and social care.
United Kingdom-Preston: Health and social work services
2017/S 212-440499
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
2nd Floor, CCP, County Hall
Preston
PR1 8XJ
United Kingdom
Contact person: Jackie Riley
E-mail: caphprocurement@lancashire.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKD4
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
LPS CAPH Provision of a Local Healthwatch Service in Lancashire RFQ 15181856.
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Healthwatch was created by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 as the independent consumer champion for health and social care.
Healthwatch operates at national level through Healthwatch England and at a local level through local Healthwatch.
The local Healthwatch Service will help to ensure that the views and feedback from local people are an integral part of local commissioning across health and social care.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Healthwatch was created by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 as the independent consumer champion for health and social care.
Healthwatch operates at national level through Healthwatch England and at a local level through local Healthwatch. Local Healthwatch operates in each upper tier local authority area.
Local Healthwatch Service will help to ensure that the views and feedback from local people are an integral part of local commissioning across health and social care.
To ensure that Lancashire County Council (the Authority) fulfils its statutory responsibility in relation to the creation of Healthwatch Lancashire (‘the Service’), the Provider, in delivering the Service will:
Promote and support the involvement of local people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of local care services.
Enable local people to monitor the standard of local care services and whether / how they could / ought to be improved. This includes the right to carry out ‘Enter and View’ visits on premises where publically funded care services are provided as part of its role in gathering evidence.
Obtain the views of people about their need for and their experiences of local care services and making these views known to persons responsible for commissioning, providing, managing or scrutinising local care services.
Make reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved.
Provide advice and information about access to local care services so choices can be made about local care services.
The Service ensure people and communities are involved in the decision making process about the commissioning, design and provision of care services in Lancashire. Local people should also be involved in informing the local Health service priorities and commenting on the quality of the organisation’s activities.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The Contract is for a two (2) year initial term with the option to extend by any period or periods for an additional one (1) year.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.4.1)Review body
London
WC2A 2LL
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2079476000Internet address:https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov/courts/royal-courts-of-justice
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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