Services for People with Drug and Alcohol Problems – Staffordshire
The agreement will represent ALL services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council.
United Kingdom-Stafford: Health and social work services
2019/S 072-170550
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Staffordshire Place 2
Stafford
ST16 2DH
United Kingdom
Contact person: Sarah Lynn
E-mail: sarah.lynn@staffordshire.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKG2
I.1)Name and addresses
Smithfield One Building, Leonard Coates Way
Stoke-On-Trent
ST1 4FA
United Kingdom
Contact person: Sarah Lynn
E-mail: sarah.lynn@staffordshire.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKG2Internet address(es):Main address: https://www.northstaffsccg.nhs.uk/
I.1)Name and addresses
Commissioners Office Block 9 Weston Road
Stafford
ST18 0YY
United Kingdom
Contact person: Sarah Lynn
E-mail: sarah.lynn@staffordshire.gov.uk
NUTS code: UKG24Internet address(es):Main address: https://staffordshire-pfcc.gov.uk/
I.2)Information about joint procurement
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Services for People with Drug and Alcohol Problems
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The agreement will represent ALL services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, including:
— young people early intervention and treatment,
— adult community treatment,
— adult residential treatment (detoxification and rehabilitation),
— specialist criminal justice services,
— specialist child safeguarding services,
— specialist alcohol-related health services (North Staffordshire only).
The adult services will need to have sufficient capacity to serve around 2 000 people at all times, which translates to around 3 000 per year.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Staffordshire
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The contract will represent all services for people with drug/alcohol problems commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, including:
— young people early intervention and treatment,
— adult community treatment,
— adult residential treatment (detoxification and rehabilitation),
— specialist criminal justice services,
— specialist child safeguarding services,
— specialist alcohol-related health services (North Staffordshire only).
It is anticipated that there will be 2 funding partners to this agreement; North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group for the Specialist alcohol-related health services and the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Office for the specialist criminal justice services.
The Intensive Family Support Service (IFSS) will be financed using a Social Impact Bond. SIBs can operate in a range of ways, although all involve an amount of finance being provided to the supplier by a social investor and also payments being made to the supplier by a commissioner (in this case the County Council) in return for specified outcomes being achieved. The finance provided by the social investor is used to cover operational costs in the period before income from the outcome payments is achieved.
The SIB for the IFSS has been made possible by the County Council successfully applying to the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) to be part of the Life Chances Fund(LCF). A non-negotiable condition of the LCF is that finance must be provided by a social investor. The supplier will need to enter into a financing arrangement with a Social Investor to finance the SIB.
This procurement is not split into lots. However, there will be 2 sets of service agreements that will apply which will need to be signed by the supplier due to funding stipulations for the IFSS element.
The agreement is to run from 1.4.2020 – 31.3.2024 with the option to extend by 3 x 12 months from 1.4.2024 – 31.3.2025, 1.4. 2025 – 31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026 – 31.3.2027.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The Agreement term will be from 1.4.2020 to 31.3.2024, with options to extend from 1.4.2024 – 31.3.2025, 1.4.2025 – 31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026 – 31.3.2027.
II.2.9)Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
As per the award criteria in the SQ procurement pack.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
Agreement term will be from 1.4.2020 to 31.3.2024, with options to extend from 1.4.2024 – 31.3.2025, 1.4.2025 – 31.3.2026 and 1.4.2026 – 31.3.2027.
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.5)Information about negotiation
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.1)Previous publication concerning this procedure
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.3)Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
48 months
VI.2)Information about electronic workflows
VI.3)Additional information:
This is an electronic tender. All submission must be made via the formal Contracting Authority electronic tendering platform.
All requests for information to be sent through the electronic tendering portal and message facility on the Proactis electronic tendering system.
How to register — follow the link to Proactis electronic tendering:
https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
If you require urgent assistance regarding the initial usage of the e-Tendering package please contact the Contracting Authority point-of-contact in Section I.1 of this notice. On failure to reach this contact, please immediately email the nature of the difficulty to commercial.team@staffordshire.gov.uk
This procurement is for a Contract between the appointed providers(s) and the Contracting Authority, to supply predominately services on an ad-hoc call-off basis, as and when required.
The Contracting Authority or its public sector partners/customers makes no guarantee as to the volume of business on offer or to be awarded, and any volumes given are indicative only and intended as a general guide.
There is no commitment at the time of tendering from any parties outside of the Contracting Authority and this should be taken into consideration when bidding.
Financing/payment:
Payments may be made following acceptance by the banking agents of Staffordshire County Council.
Legal form of groups of providers:
No special legal form is required by the grouping of providers but each provider will be required to be come jointly or severally responsible for the contract before acceptance.
For reference the following website outlines the Contracting Authority’s policy on the Community Right to Challenge:
VI.4.1)Review body
Stafford
ST16 2DH
United Kingdom
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
Stafford
ST16 2DH
United Kingdom
VI.4.3)Review procedure
The Contracting Authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period (or 15 days where non-electronic or fax methods are used) at the point that an award decision notice is communicated to tenderers.
The award decision process 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(s), and will specify when the standstill period is expected to end or the date before which the Contracting Authority will not conclude the contract.
If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 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 an 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.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
