Occupational Health Service Tender Cheshire
The Service will be a Nurse Advisor led Occupational Health Service. Ordinarily the Service will be provided between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm.
United Kingdom-Chester: Company health services
2016/S 043-071398
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Cheshire West and Chester
HQ, 58 Nicholas Street
For the attention of: Mrs Debbie Pitcher
CH1 2NP Chester
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1244976943
E-mail: debbie.pitcher@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/
Electronic access to information: https://the-chest.org.uk
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: https://the-chest.org.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The Chest
58 Nicholas Street
Contact point(s): Debbie Pitcher
CH1 2NP Chester
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: debbie.pitcher@cheshirewest.gov.uk
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The Chest
58 Nicholas Street
CH1 2NP Chester
UNITED KINGDOM
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The Chest
www.the-chest.org.uk
Contact point(s): The Chest
For the attention of: Debbie Pitcher
CH1 2NP Chester
UNITED KINGDOM
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
Warrington Borough Council
New Town House (Quattro), Buttermarket Street
WA1 2NL Warrington
UNITED KINGDOM
Cheshire East Borough Council
Westfields
CW11 1HZ Sandbach
UNITED KINGDOM
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
NUTS code UKD2
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The Service will be a Nurse Advisor led Occupational Health Service. Ordinarily the Service will be provided between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank and public holidays) for 52 weeks each year; however the Provider will be required to be flexible in meeting the requirements of the Council that may fall outside these times.
For the purposes of this Service the ‘Councils’ means Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire East Borough Council and Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council and any authorised agent or partner of the Council including Schools.
The Provider shall –
— Provide an economic, efficient and confidential Nurse Adviser led occupational health service to the Councils that recognises the complexity of the services provided by the Councils and the varying needs created.
— Take a proactive role in assisting the Councils in the development and review of their employment practices systems so far as occupational health is concerned.
— Work with the Councils to identify potential work related health risks and reduce existing risks to as low as reasonably practical.
— Provide advice to the Councils on health issues affecting the health and well-being of employees, including advice on working conditions and the prevention of employment related disease and / or disorders.
— Maintain an up-to-date awareness of developments in the occupational health field and advise the Councils accordingly, making recommendations for changes to policies as appropriate.
— Liaise with the Councils in assessing, monitoring and reviewing the occupational health service and developing, monitoring and reviewing the Service and appropriate health targets.
— Liaise with the Councils’ officers, attending meetings and provide advice, both oral and written on any matters arising from any of the activities detailed above.
— Ensure awareness of the culture of the Councils and be pro-active within it, to help maintain good employment practices in relation to the health and well-being of its employees.
— Provide the Service in such a manner that ensures that all users of the Service are treated equally and no users of the service are treated less favourably because of their colour, race, culture, religion, gender, nationality, age, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin or status as a carer.
— Work in partnership with the Councils’ HR staff and managers towards the aim of reducing sickness absence levels.
The Provider shall provide to the Council:
The Service will predominantly comprise of the following core services:
Pre-employment screening service
Management referrals
Counselling
Health Surveillance Services / Medicals
Hearing Tests
Driver Medical (including HGV/LGV/minibus drivers)
HAVs Assessments
Spirometry
Skin assessments
Additional Services
Night worker assessments
DSE Eyesight Screening
Physiotherapy
Drug and Alcohol Testing (price per session — service to be provided within 2 hours of verbal request)
Workplace ergonomic assessments
Vaccinations e.g. Flu, Hep B.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
85147000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The Service will be a Nurse Advisor led Occupational Health Service. Ordinarily the Service will be provided between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank and public holidays) for 52 weeks each year; however the Provider will be required to be flexible in meeting the requirements of the Council that may fall outside these times.
For the purposes of this Service the ‘Councils’ means Warrington Borough Council, Cheshire East Borough Council and Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council and any authorised agent or partner of the Council including Schools.
The Provider shall –
— Provide an economic, efficient and confidential Nurse Adviser led occupational health service to the Councils that recognises the complexity of the services provided by the Councils and the varying needs created.
— Take a proactive role in assisting the Councils in the development and review of their employment practices systems so far as occupational health is concerned.
— Work with the Councils to identify potential work related health risks and reduce existing risks to as low as reasonably practical.
— Provide advice to the Councils on health issues affecting the health and well-being of employees, including advice on working conditions and the prevention of employment related disease and / or disorders.
— Maintain an up-to-date awareness of developments in the occupational health field and advise the Councils accordingly, making recommendations for changes to policies as appropriate.
— Liaise with the Councils in assessing, monitoring and reviewing the occupational health service and developing, monitoring and reviewing the Service and appropriate health targets.
— Liaise with the Councils’ officers, attending meetings and provide advice, both oral and written on any matters arising from any of the activities detailed above.
— Ensure awareness of the culture of the Councils and be pro-active within it, to help maintain good employment practices in relation to the health and well-being of its employees.
— Provide the Service in such a manner that ensures that all users of the Service are treated equally and no users of the service are treated less favourably because of their colour, race, culture, religion, gender, nationality, age, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin or status as a carer.
— Work in partnership with the Councils’ HR staff and managers towards the aim of reducing sickness absence levels.
The Provider shall provide to the Council:
The Service will predominantly comprise of the following core services:
Pre-employment screening service
Management referrals
Counselling
Health Surveillance Services / Medicals
Hearing Tests
Driver Medical (including HGV/LGV/minibus drivers)
HAVs Assessments
Spirometry
Skin assessments
Additional Services
Night worker assessments
DSE Eyesight Screening
Physiotherapy
Drug and Alcohol Testing — service to be provided within 2 hours of verbal request)
Workplace ergonomic assessments
Vaccinations e.g. Flu, Hep B.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 2 000 000 and 3 500 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
Description of these options: Option to extend the contract by 1+1 years.
Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)
II.2.3)Information about renewals
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
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.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
As outlined in the Invitation to Tender evaluation criteria.
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.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
Prior information notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2015/S 230-418203 of 27.11.2015
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
The tender documents are all available on the e-tendering portal, The Chest, www.the-chest.org.uk ALL correspondence must be via The Chest. This is a joint procurement between Cheshire West & Chester, Cheshire East and Warrington Councils, open for use by all legal entities of the 3 councils and schools within the 3 boroughs.
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
Director of Governance
58 Nicholas Street
CH1 2NP Chester
UNITED KINGDOM
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: