Personal Support Service to the RAF Community

Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Nimrod Building, RAF High Wycombe
High Wycombe
HP14 4UE
United Kingdom
Contact person: Stuart Winton
Telephone: +44 1494494362
E-mail: defcomrclcc-air1c@mod.uk
NUTS code: UKJ13

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Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions

Defence

Provision of Personal Support and Social Work Service for the RAF.

Reference number: ACT/04464

Services

Provision of Personal Support and Social Work Service for the RAF.

Value excluding VAT: 28 000 030.00 GBP

This contract is divided into lots: no

NUTS code: UKJ13

Main site or place of performance:

Buckinghamshire CC.

It is United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defence (MOD) Royal Air Force (RAF) policy to provide a range of welfare support services to the RAF community in the UK. The MOD’s definition of Welfare is: ‘The provision of a widely recognised and accessible personal and community support structure that secures and improves the well-being of serving personnel and the Service community, is capable of adapting to societal, legislative and operational change and, in so doing, optimises the military capability and motivation of all Service men and women.’

RAF personnel and their families tend to lead a more mobile lifestyle than the civilian population, being posted to a different location every few years and often living in relatively remote areas. Mobility and the isolation of some units can separate RAF personnel and their families from their own extended family support mechanism. Moreover, Service families become separated from time to time, for periods of 6 months or more, when the Serving person is deployed abroad on operations or exercises.

To take account of these factors, the RAF would like to continue to offer a contracted non-statutory Personal Support Service to the RAF Community that compliments other welfare support provided by the MOD, the RAF and Local Authority Statutory Agencies. This Advert is to seek interest from Industry for the provision of an output based non-statutory personal support and social work service to circa 32 000 RAF personnel, Regular and Reserves assigned to RAF administered units in the UK, as well as their families (spouses/civil partners and eligible children) in accordance with the contract Statement of Requirement. This will include the provision of confidential welfare support to Serving personnel and their families and specialist advice to unit staffs and station welfare casework committee meetings. The contract will be for 5 core years commencing 1.4.2017 to 31.3.2022, with a further 2 option years covering 1.4.2022 to 31.3.2023 and 1.4.2023 to 31.3.2024. Separate from the main requirement, the MOD (the Authority) wishes to preserve an option to consider a possible additional service of local Welfare Advisors to deliver practical and emotional support and welfare intervention activities to circa 1 700 Service personnel undergoing training in Phase 1 and Phase 2 RAF administered training establishments.

This Requirement is already contractorised and it is anticipated that (TUPE) Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Legislation is applicable to this Requirement, and the relevant TUPE Data shall be issued with the ITT.

If interested then your Company must complete a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) response via the DCO online. The Authority will use each PQQ response to create a short-list of suppliers who are eligible to participate as Tenderers; fulfil any minimum economic, financial, professional and technical standards; and best meet in terms of capacity and capability the selection criteria set out in this PQQ.

Full details of the method of choosing the Tenderers are set out in the PQQ. It is the intention to down select to between approximately 2 and 6 highest scoring suppliers who will be Invited to Tender, providing they meet the overall percentage pass mark of 60 % and do not score any lower than 2 in any individual question within the PQQ. If the supplier scores below 2 or receives a fail in any of the questions then they will automatically fail the evaluation and will not be invited to participate any further. All selected suppliers who are invited to tender after the PQQ evaluation will then be evaluated by means of the most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated within the invitation to tender documents.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Value excluding VAT: 28 000 030.00 GBP

Duration in months: 60

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: yes

Description of options:

2 x 1 year options for the period between 1.4.2022-31.3.2023 and 1.4.2023-31.3.2024.

Separate from the main requirement, the MOD (the Authority) wishes to preserve an option to consider a possible additional service of local Welfare Advisors to deliver practical and emotional support and welfare intervention activities to circa 1 700 Service personnel undergoing training in Phase 1 and Phase 2 RAF administered training establishments.

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

Restricted procedure

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no

Date: 27/07/2016

Local time: 19:00

Date: 01/08/2016

English

Duration in months: 4 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

This is a recurrent procurement: no

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Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Nimrod Building, RAF High Wycombe
High Wycombe
HP14 4UE
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1494494362
E-mail: defcomrclcc-air1c@mod.uk

27/06/2016