DoLS Assessments Contract Chatham
Medway Council has a dedicated DoLS Service and requires the provision of an s12 DoLS trained doctors’ contract.
United Kingdom-Chatham: Health services
2018/S 055-121960
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road
Chatham
ME4 4TR
United Kingdom
Contact person: Miss Lisa Barrett
Telephone: +44 1634337402
E-mail: lisa.barrett@medway.gov.uk
NUTS code: UK
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.medway.gov.uk/
I.2)Information about joint procurement
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Provision of DoLS Assessments
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The Mental Capacity Act (2005) is amended by the Mental Health Act (1983 as amended 2007) to include the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, implemented on 1.4.2009. The safeguards provide legal protection for vulnerable people who are, or may become, deprived of their liberty in a hospital or care home. They apply to people who have a mental disorder and who are assessed as lacking capacity to consent to the arrangements made for their residence, care or treatment.
Medway Council has a dedicated DoLS Service and requires the provision of an s12 DoLS trained doctors’ contract.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
Medway, Kent.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The requirements for this contract are as follows:
a) Provision of appropriately qualified and trained doctors;
b) Provision of doctors with mix of experience — learning disability, older persons, brain injury;
c) Facility to undertake assessments within 7 days of referral;
d) Secure e-mail transmission between doctor and Medway DoLS Office with all forms digitally signed;
e) Service to ensure that doctors are appropriately qualified, trained and updated annually.
Service to ensure that doctors have suitable indemnity insurance, current vetting and barring certificate and any necessary work permit/visa for working in the UK;
f) Access for doctors to legal advice for complex cases.
Provision of doctors willing to assess alongside Best Interests Assessors at a time best suited to the person(s) being assessed, including availability for out of hour’s assessments.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
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
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.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.4.1)Review body
Gun Wharf, Dock Road
Chatham
ME4 4TR
United Kingdom
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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