STOP Smoking Service Stoke-on-Trent
The aim of stop smoking services is to reduce the number of people who smoke by providing evidence-based treatment and behavioural support to smokers making quit attempts.
The delivery for the service will reduce levels of smoking-related illness, disability, premature death, and health inequality.
UK-Stoke-on-Trent: community health services
2012/S 213-352555
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, PO Box 1709
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1782232724
E-mail: denise.stockton@stoke.gov.uk
Further information can be obtained from: This tender is being carried out electronically through our eTendering portal BravoSolution accessed via https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
This tender is being carried out electronically through our eTendering portal BravoSolution accessed via https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: This tender is being carried out electronically through our eTendering portal BravoSolution accessed via https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
This tender is being carried out electronically through our eTendering portal BravoSolution accessed via https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: This tender is being carried out electronically through our eTendering portal BravoSolution accessed via https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
This tender is being carried out electronically through our eTendering portal BravoSolution accessed via https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Section II: Object of the contract
Service category No 25: Health and social services
NUTS code UKG23
The delivery for the service will reduce levels of smoking-related illness, disability, premature death, and health inequality.
Services will be delivered in-line with the most recent best practice recommendations for stop smoking services issued by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Department of Health (DH).
The service will support people to successfully quit smoking for 12 weeks. Payment will be made at 4 weeks and 12 weeks for those clients who have successfully quit within the required criteria. Pregnant clients will be supported to quit at 4 weeks and then either to quit at delivery orto quit at 12 weeks whichever is the furthest away.
Providers will need to demonstrate in their bid that they can deliver a high quality stop smoking service that meets the requirements of the specification.
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Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr.
Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
(b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established;
(c) a statement of the undertaking’s overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last three financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available.
Section IV: Procedure
Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: Officers of Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Section VI: Complementary information
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement, and the contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender.
This tender is being conducted electronically (free of charge) on the BravoSolution e-tendering system.
Instructions are as follows:
1. Browse the WMCoE eSourcing Portal: https://wmcoe.bravosolution.co.uk
2. Click the “Click here to register” link.
3. Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”.
4. Enter your correct business and user details.
5. Note the username you chose and click “save” when complete.
6. You will receive an email with your unique password (keep this secure).
7. Login to the portal with the username/password.
8. Click the “ITTs open to all suppliers” link. (These are ITTs open to any registered supplier).
9. Click on the relevant ITT to access the content.
10. Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” on the left-hand side of the page.
This will move the ITT over to the “My ITTs” page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only).
11. Click on the ITT code, you can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page.
12. You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject”.
13. Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the ITT
If you require any further assistance the BravoSolution help desk is available Mon-Fri – 8am-6pm on email: help@bravosolution.co.uk.
Telephone no: +44 8003684850 / Fax no: +44 2070800480.
Project reference number on BravoSolution eTendering portal is 18370.
ITT reference number on BravoSolution eTendering portal is 29548 GO Reference: GO-20121030-PRO-4352753.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, PO Box 1709
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement, PO Box 1709
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Corporate Procurement PO Box 1709
ST4 1HH Stoke-on-Trent
UNITED KINGDOM
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:30.10.2012