People Moving and Handling Training Tender

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is seeking the services of an external training provider to deliver People Moving and Handling training to its clinical staff.

United Kingdom-Maidstone: Health training services

2016/S 154-279570

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Maidstone Hospital, Hermitage Lane
For the attention of: Ms Lesley Martin
ME16 9QQ Maidstone
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1622224824
E-mail: lesley.martin5@nhs.net

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.mtw.nhs.uk/

Electronic access to information: www.lppsourcing.org

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: www.lppsourcing.org

Further information can be obtained from: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Maidstone Hospital, Hermitage Lane
For the attention of: Ms Lesley Martin
ME16 9QQ Maidstone
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1622224824
E-mail: lesley.martin5@nhs.net

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Maidstone Hospital, Hermitage Lane
For the attention of: Ms Lesley Martin
ME16 9QQ Maidstone
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1622224824
E-mail: lesley.martin5@nhs.net

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Maidstone Hospital, Hermitage Lane
For the attention of: Ms Lesley Martin
ME16 9QQ Maidstone
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1622224824
E-mail: lesley.martin5@nhs.net

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

I.3)Main activity

Health

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

People Moving and Handling Training.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 27: Other services

NUTS code UKJ4

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the south east of England and provides a full range of general hospital services, and some areas of specialist complex care to around 560 000 people living in the south of West Kent and the north of East Sussex. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is seeking the services of an external training provider to deliver People Moving and Handling training to its clinical staff. Training will be delivered on site in a class room environment. The Trust requires a provider who is experienced in both the advisory and training aspects of People moving and Handling and can apply their moving and handling training skills to a wide range of general patient handling situations within an acute hospital setting.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

80561000

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

II.1.8)Lots

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: no

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the south east of England and provides a full range of general hospital services, and some areas of specialist complex care to around 560 000 people living in the south of West Kent and the north of East Sussex. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is seeking the services of an external training provider to deliver People moving and Handling training to its clinical staff. Training will be delivered on site in a class room environment. The Trust requires a provider who is experienced in both the advisory and training aspects of People moving and Handling and can apply their moving and handling training skills to a wide range of general patient handling situations within an acute hospital setting.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 120 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.3)Information about renewals

This contract is subject to renewal: yes
In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated timeframe for subsequent contracts:
in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)

II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

III.2.3)Technical capacity

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

0126

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

Payable documents: no

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

23.8.2016 – 23:59

IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up