Leading delivery of the family nurse partnership programme Department of Health
Department of Health. DH would like to invite all potential providers of the service to a briefing day held on the 19.4.2012 in London, England. UK-London: community health services
2012/S 65-106280
Prior information notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
Department of Health
Skipton House, 80 London Road
For the attention of: Beau morgan
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UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: FNP@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Procurementandproposals/BMS/index.htm
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
Department of Health
SE1 6LH
London
UNITED KINGDOM
Section II.B: Object of the contract (Supplies or services)
England.
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The FNP programme is a licensed preventive programme for vulnerable, first time young mothers and starts in early pregnancy and ends when the child reaches 2 years of age. It is an intensive home visiting programme delivered by specially trained nurses. Currently there are 73 teams in 80 local areas with capacity for 9,000 families, with further expansion planned by March 2015.
The FNP national unit is responsible for supporting the expansion of family nurse partnership programme and ensuring high quality replication of FNP through the following functions:
— Training and coaching of nurses and supervisors,
— Site development and consultancy to local commissioning and provider organisations (NHS and local authority) who are sub-licensed by the national unit,
— Research and development including the FNP information system,
— Leadership of FNP at national level,
— Business development, communications and marketing.
Further information will be provided and questions answered at the briefing event planned for 19.4.2012.
Estimated cost excluding VAT:
Range: between 16 000 000,00 and 24 000 000,00 GBP
Lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
85323000, 85141200, 85141220, 85141100
Small to Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are encouraged to bid for this service.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Section VI: Complementary information
DH would like to invite all potential providers of the service to a briefing day held on the 19.4.2012 in London, England. Please can you register at FNP@dh.gsi.gov.uk where we shall release further details of the event.
Potential suppliers should note that, in accordance with the Government’s policies on transparency, DH intends to publish the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ), the invitation to tender (ITT) document, and the text of any framework agreement / contract awarded, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of DH. The terms of the proposed framework agreement / contract will also permit a public sector contracting authority, awarding a contract under this framework agreement / contract, to publish the text of that contract, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Further information on transparency can be found at: http://www.ogc.gov.uk/policy_and_standards_framework_transparency.asp.
— Note: the following link will take you to the guidance documentation for using the Department’s BMS system (e-tendering portal).
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Procurementandproposals/BMS/index.htm
Instructions for/conditions of participation.
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the DH eTendering portal at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Procurementandproposals/BMS/index.htm.
We call this system BMS (business management system).
Th Department of Health reserves the right to discontinue the tendering process and not to award the contract.
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