Mental Health Support Services for Young Offenders

United Kingdom-Stafford: Health and social work services

2015/S 168-306831

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Staffordshire County Council
2 Staffordshire Place
Contact point(s): Staffordshire Procurement — People
For the attention of: Michelle Davies
ST16 2DH Stafford
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1785277116
E-mail: michelle.davies@staffordshire.gov.uk
Fax: +44 1785278286

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.staffordshire.gov.uk/business/procurement

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

Regional or local authority

I.3)Main activity

General public services

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Mental Health and Therapeutic Support Services for Young Offenders.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 25: Health and social services

NUTS code UKG24

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Staffordshire County Council would like to invite service providers who are capable of delivering a high quality and outcome focussed Mental Health and Therapeutic Support Service for children and young people who are engaged with and/or under the supervision of the Staffordshire Youth Offending Service.
The objectives of the Service are to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of children and young people who are involved in the Youth Justice System or at risk of entering the Criminal Justice System as a consequence of antisocial behaviour or coming to the attention of the Police in local communities. This will include working with families to strengthen relationships and prevent further offending behaviour. It is envisaged that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) will be employed as a primary method for working with young people to assist them and their families to understand their behaviour and to work towards having an offence free future. Proposals which include alternative evidence-based interventions will also be considered.
The successful provider will be expected to develop and maintain good and effective working relationships with a range of providers to deliver an integrated service that promotes a whole system approach. This includes providing training and consultation to enhance and improve Staffordshire Youth Offending Service practitioner competence and confidence to work effectively with children and young people and their families through planned interventions relating to emotional and mental health.
We would like to invite organisations interested in this tender opportunity to register, using the above contract reference number for this procurement process on our contracts database http://contracts.staffordshire.gov.uk and E tendering Alito system http://www.staffordshire.alito.co.uk/Once you have registered on Alito you will be able to view and download all the tender documentation.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

85000000, 85312300

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

II.1.8)Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: no

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 450 000 and 480 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: yes
Description of these options: Initial period is from 1.4.2016 to 31.3.2018 with 2 x 12 options to extend. Therefore options may be taken up from 1.4.2018 to 31.3.2019 and 1.4.2019 to 31.3.2020.

II.2.3)Information about renewals

This contract is subject to renewal: no

II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Starting 1.4.2016. Completion 31.3.2020

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

Payments may be made following acceptance by the banking agents of the County Council.

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

No special legal form is required by the grouping of providers but each provider will be required to become jointly or severally responsible for the contract before acceptance.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

III.2)Conditions for participation

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

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: The applicant must meet the minimum set standards of economic and financial standing to service the term and value of the contract.
Financial checks will be undertaken for economic operators using one or more of the Councils current financial assessors; n2check (www.n2check.com), Dun & Bradstreet (www.dnb.co.uk), Experian (www.experian.co.uk). Economic operators will be assessed according to the level of risk stipulated by the financial assessors used. Any economic operator being given an ABOVE AVERAGE/HIGHER THAN AVERAGE RISK rating or poorer, by one or more of the assessors used, may be rejected.Note:
1.
It is the responsibility of the economic operator to ensure that the appropriate accounts have been filed and that the credit information held is correct.
2.
Should economic operators wish other financial information to be taken into account to support the economic and financial check this should be submitted with the response to the ITT. SCC reserves the right to request further financial information and to take this into account where necessary in addition to the level of risk stipulated by the financial assessors.
3.
For sole traders/partnerships where third party financial assessments are not available the assessment will be undertaken using a financial spreadsheet detailing trading account data for the last three years.
The organisation should hold as a minimum the following insurance levels or be able to provide with their response, a written statement advising that should they be awarded the contract they will have the required levels of insurance in place for the commencement of the contract.
Public Liability 5 000 000 GBP
Employers Liability 5 000 000 GBP
Professional Indemnity 2 000 000 GBP
The organisation should be Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Open

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated no

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

CYPF00116

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior information notice

Notice number in the OJEU: 2015/S 139-256681 of 22.7.2015

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

28.9.2015 – 13:00

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

English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

in days: 90 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Date: 28.9.2015 – 14:00

Place:

Staffordshire County Council Offices.

Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes
Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: Attendance is limited and members of authorities staff.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: no

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

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

VI.3)Additional information

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Staffordshire Procurement — People
2 Staffordshire Place
ST16 2DH Stafford
UNITED KINGDOM

Body responsible for mediation procedures

Staffordshire Procurement — People
2 Staffordshire Place
ST16 2DH Stafford
UNITED KINGDOM

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Contracting Authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point that an award decision notice is communicated to tenderers. The award decision notice will specify the criteria for the award of the contract/framework agreement, the reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages, the name and score of the successful tender, and will specify when the standstill period is expected to end or the date before which the contracting authority will not conclude the contract/framework agreement. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract/framework agreement has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2009 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). The Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or may order the Contracting Authority to amend any document and may award damages. If a framework agreement has been entered into the Court may make a declaration of ineffectiveness or may order that the duration of any relevant specific contract be shortened and additionally may award damages. The time limit for seeking such a declaration is generally 30 days from notification of the award (either by award decision notification or contract award notice depending upon the circumstances) or otherwise 6 months.

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

Staffordshire Procurement
2 Staffordshire Place
ST16 2DH Stafford
UNITED KINGDOM

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

27.8.2015