Nottinghamshire Integrated Victims' Support Service

Nottinghamshire Integrated Victims’ Support Service

The aim of the Service is to provide victim-centred support to empower victims and survivors to cope and recover from crime and anti-social behaviour.

United Kingdom-Nottingham: Provision of services to the community

2014/S 191-337441

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire
Arnot Hill Arnold
For the attention of: Ms Lorraine Worthington-Allen
NG5 6LU Nottingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1159670999
E-mail: lorraine.worthington-allen@emscu.pnn.police.uk

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.nottinghamshire.pcc.police.uk

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: www.bluelight.gov.uk
www.bluelight.gov.uk
Internet address: www.bluelight.gov.uk

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.3)Main activity

Public order and safety

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:

Nottinghamshire Integrated Victims’ Support Service.

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

Services
Service category No 27: Other services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Nottinghamshire.

NUTS code UKF

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)

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire, ‘the Commissioner’, has a wide remit to cut crime and improve community safety in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Plan 2013-18 sets out the Commissioner’s intentions to achieve safer communities and improve trust and confidence in high quality policing by reducing crime and antisocial behaviour, ensuring fairer treatment of victims and citizens and demonstrating using public resources wisely. The plan includes a specific commitment to ‘protect, support and respond to victims, witnesses and vulnerable people’.
Police and Crime Commissioners were given the power to commission local support services for victims of crime by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill in March 2014.
The Commissioner receives a grant from Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to commission local victim support services, in line with the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime 2013 and to support victims to achieve cope and recover outcomes. He now wishes to commission a provider (‘the Provider’) to deliver the Nottinghamshire Integrated Victims’ Support Service (‘the Service’).
The aim of the Service is to provide victim-centred support to empower victims and survivors to cope and recover from crime and anti-social behaviour.
The Service must help to prevent repeat victimisation, protect victims from further harm and be open and accountable to victims.
The Service will be delivered:
— in accordance with and in the spirit of the Victims’ Code, which means services shall be free of charge, confidential, available whether reported as a crime or not, non-discriminatory and able to support the victim before, during and after any court proceedings, to aid ‘cope and recover’;
— in with the requirement of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, where the Provider ‘will improve the economic, social and environmental well-being’ of the local communities within which this Service will work.
The Service will be based in Nottingham/shire and anchored in diverse local communities across the city and county; either through co-located local bases and/or use of locally based staff and/or volunteers. It must be delivered by staff and volunteers who are able to demonstrate insight and understanding into victims’ needs.

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

75200000, 85323000, 98000000, 98133100

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

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

II.1.8)Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: yes

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

The Service must help to prevent repeat victimisation, protect victims from further harm and be open and accountable to victims.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 100 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

Options: no

II.2.3)Information about renewals

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

Duration in months: 24 (from the award of the contract)

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:

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

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Any supplier may be disqualified who:
(a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order compulsory winding up the administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations;
(c) has been convicted by a judgement which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contract authorities can demonstrate;
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority;
(g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information;
(h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organization, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA;
(i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26 May 1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively;
(j)has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities;
(k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
See ITT for full details.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: See ITT for full details.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: See ITT for full details.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
See ITT for full details.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
See ITT for full details.

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

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: yes

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

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:

SOR1000323

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

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

Time limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 3.11.2014 – 12:00
Payable documents: no

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

10.11.2014 – 12:00

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: 10.11.2014 – 12:00

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

East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit
Nottinghamshire police Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge Arnold
NG5 8PP Nottingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1159670999

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

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

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

30.9.2014