Talking Therapies for Sexual Assault Services
Provide immediate and short term psychological interventions to support male and female adults and children.
United Kingdom-Derby: Health and social work services
2017/S 160-330652
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Cardinal Square, Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 07771981515
E-mail: chris.horrocks@ardengemcsu.nhs.uk
NUTS code: UKF11
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
NHS England — East of England — Talking Therapies for Sexual Assault Services (SARC).
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
NHS Arden GEM CSU on behalf of NHS England — Health & Justice East Area Team (The Contracting Authority) is inviting suitable organisations to tender for the provision of Talking Therapy Services to provide immediate and short term psychological interventions to support male and female adults and children in the immediate aftermath of a sexual offence.
Organisations wishing to submit a bid will need to register on the Arden GEM Bravo solutions website and complete the ITT documentation at the following location: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
The ITT documentation should be completed by the closing date of 15:00 hrs on 25.9.2017. All submissions will be evaluated using pre-determined scoring criteria. The ITT reference is itt_800.
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.1)Title:
Bedfordshire (The Emerald Centre)
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Bedfordshire.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Talking Therapy Services — Sexual Assault Referral Services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.1)Title:
Cambridgeshire (The Elms)
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Cambridgeshire.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Talking Therapy Services — Sexual Assault Referral Services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.1)Title:
Essex (Oakwood Place)
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Essex.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Talking Therapy Services — Sexual Assault Referral Services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.1)Title:
Hertfordshire (The Sunflower Centre)
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Hertfordshire.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Talking Therapy Services — Sexual Assault Referral Services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.1)Title:
Norfolk (The Harbour Centre)
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Norfolk.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Talking Therapy Services — Sexual Assault Referral Services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.1)Title:
Suffolk (The Ferns)
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Suffolk.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Talking Therapy Services — Sexual Assault Referral Services.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
The Contracting Authority reserves the right to require groupings of contractors to take a particular legal form or to require 1 party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
Parent company or other guarantee bonds, deposits, insurance or other forms of security may be required in certain circumstances.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
Arden and GEM CSU is managing this Procurement in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the “Regulations”). The Service is being procured under “Schedule 3 — Social and Other Specific Services”.
Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations.
The Contracting Authority will be using an eTendering system in this procurement exercise.
Suppliers Instructions: How to Express Interest in this Tender.
1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once).
Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register — Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’ — Enter your correct business and user details.
— Note the user-name you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete.
— You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure).
2. Express an Interest in the tender
— Login to the portal with the username/password.
— Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier).
— Click on the relevant ITT to access the content.
— Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page.
— This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only)
— You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box.
3. Responding to the tender
— Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining).
— You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification.
— Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT.
— There may be a mixture of on-line and off-line actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available).
You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the on-line help, or contact the eTendering help-desk.
VI.4.1)Review body
Derby
United Kingdom
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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