Care and Nursing Staff Recruitment Tender
Emh group seeks to appoint through this tender suitably qualified and financially sound economic operators to provide an agency service for care, support and nursing staff on a temporary and temp to perm basis.
United Kingdom-Coalville: Supply services of nursing personnel
2016/S 121-216924
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
East Midlands Housing Group
Memorial House, Stenson Rd, Whitwick Business Park, Leicestershire
Contact point(s): East Midlands Housing Group
For the attention of: Bob Crabb
LE67 4JP Coalville
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1530278190
E-mail: bob.crabb@emhgroup.org.uk
Fax: +44 1530276006
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.emhgroup.org.uk
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.emhgroup.org.uk
Electronic access to information: http://xantive.supplierselect.com
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: http://xantive.supplierselect.com
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 22: Personnel placement and supply services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: UKF.
NUTS code
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 6
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 1 200 000 and 1 600 000 GBP
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
emh group provide services in Nursing Homes, Supported Housing Schemes, Residential Housing Schemes, Extra Care Facilities.
Providers will be able to supply staff to support vulnerable people in a variety of residential settings. This will include people with learning disabilities, older people, people with physical auditory and visual disabilities, and people with mental health needs.
They will be able to supply qualified Registered Nurses for Learning Disability, Registered general Nurses and care and support staff.
They will be able to supply staff cover on both a planned and short notice basis.
Up to 6 places will be awarded within a 4 year framework.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
79624000, 79620000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
They will be able to supply qualified Registered Nurses for Learning Disability, Registered general Nurses and care and support staff.
They will be able to supply staff cover on both a planned and short notice basis.
They will be expected to demonstrate the training their staff have received and their skill profile.
All agency staff will have an enhanced DBS certificate.
Qualified Nurses will be expected to possess a range of clinical skills and experience of working with the client groups mentioned above.
Care and support staff will be required to hold a current Care Certificate and a variety of appropriate training certificates.
In some settings there will be the expectation that agency staff will administer medication, work to specified care and support plans and 24 hour shift patterns.
emh group require the service throughout the East Midlands of the UK.
Current spend is between 300 000 GBP and 400 000 GBP per annum but will vary dependent on business expansion and take on of staff on a permanent basis.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 1 200 000 and 1 600 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Invoices submitted electronically (PDF).
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
Description of particular conditions: Framework format will meet the guidance of the Crown Commercial Service.
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
emh group abide by the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As detailed in the PQQ.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Knowledge of requirements for nursing, care, and supported housing environments.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Structure able to deliver specific requirements at short notice in required areas.
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: Compliant questionnaires submitted will be assessed as per the evaluation criteria in the PQQ Candidates will be ranked according to their total score — the top scores will be invited to tender. Depending on range of scores, that number is envisaged to not exceed 10.
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below
1. Price. Weighting 60
2. Quality. Weighting 40
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
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
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 48 months.
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
Applicants must register at http://xantive.supplierselect.com/
You will be asked to create an account and then register interest in this Public Project.
The PQQ and following ITT will be managed entirely through this system.
If required, the registration instructions may be obtained from bob.crabb@emhgroup.org.uk
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
East Midlands Housing Group
Memorial House, Stenson Rd, Whitwick Business Park
LE67 4JP Coalville
United Kingdom
E-mail: enquiries@emhgroup.org.uk
Telephone: +44 01530276000
Internet address: http://www.emhgroup.org.uk
Fax: +44 01530276006
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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