Healthy Child Programme 0-19 Procurement – Norfolk County Council
Norfolk County Council in collaboration with NHS England is seeking a provider to deliver an integrated 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP) Service for the county of Norfolk.
United Kingdom-Norwich: Health and social work services
2014/S 190-335325
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Norfolk County Council
County Hall, Martineau Lane
For the attention of: Sarah Hardy
NR1 2DH Norwich
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1603223968
E-mail: sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.norfolk.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: www.norfolk.gov.uk
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: Norfolk County Council
Internet address: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Norfolk County Council
Internet address: www.in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc
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 25: Health and social services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Norfolk.
NUTS code UKH13
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The chosen provider will deliver an evidenced based, quality service that will implement new ways of working. Norfolks 0-19 Healthy Child Programme will be of high quality that makes a measurable contribution to the prevention of ill health and to the reduction of inequalities. Success will be measured by the improved health and well-being outcomes for children young people and their families in Norfolk.
The 0-19 years Healthy Child Programme for Norfolk will include:
1. Health Visiting Service
2. Family Nurse Partnership Programme
3. School Nurse Service
4. Childhood obesity Primary Prevention Programme tier 1
5. Healthy weight programme tier 2 (which includes behaviour change, diet, nutrition and physical activity)
6. Healthy Schools. Applicants should note that the Council reserves the right to remove this requirement from the procurement. This element of the Healthy Child Programme contains Norfolk County Council staff with TUPE rights. The Council is aware that there can be issues with the TUPE of Council staff in terms of pension provision. In order to ensure a fair and competitive process, Healthy Schools will be removed from the procurement before the Invitation to Tender stage if it can be proved that a provider cannot comply with the required pension provisions. The Council will inform Applicants before the Invitation to Tender stage how it intends to proceed with the Healthy Schools element of this procurement.
7. Vision and Hearing Screening for 4-5 year olds.
8. Hearing screening for school aged children and young people on referral.
9. 0-5 Looked After Children health review assessments.
The Council welcomes consortium bids and sub-contracting arrangements.
The Contract will cover the geographical border of Norfolk and for the avoidance of doubt does not include Waveney.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
85000000, 85140000, 85100000, 85323000
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:
The yearly budget for the Health Visitor and Family Nurse Partnership Service has not yet been finalised by the Department of Health. Final figures should be known in December 2014 before dialogue sessions begin with short-listed Applicants.
The 5-19 budget is 4 000 000 GBP per year. The budget for Health Visitors and Family Nurse Partnership has been estimated at 10 000 000 GBP. The lowest figure below is based on a contract length of 5 years and the highest value is based on a 9 year contract length and an increased yearly budget for Health Visitors and Family Nurse Partnership of 11 000 000 GBP per year.
The length of contract specified at 11.3 is the maximum length of the contract which is 9 years.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 70 000 000 and 135 000 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
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
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As per the tender documentation.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
As per the tender documentation.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As per the tender documentation.
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: As per the tender documentation.
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2.1)Award criteria
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
Prior information notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2014/S 149-268061 of 6.8.2014
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.3.5)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
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
This procurement will be managed electronically via the Councils procurement system. To participate in this procurement, Applicants must first be registered on the procurement system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found athttps://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/BuyerProfiles Once registered you will need to register an interest in this procurement to obtain the procurement documentation. You will be able to view the procurement project under the tenders section and express an interest. If you encounter any difficulties whilst using the system you can contact the support team by phoning +44 8442728810 or e-mailing support@in-tend.co.uk
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: