Tender for Nursing Associate Apprenticeship Training 2020
The programme aims to produce nursing associates who are fit to practice in the widest range of settings.
United Kingdom-Norwich: Health training services
2020/S 101-245149
Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Norwich Community Hospital, Bowthorpe Road
Town: Norwich
NUTS code: UKH1
Postal code: NR2 3TU
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: steven.worley@nchc.nhs.uk
Telephone: +44 1603785866
Address of the buyer profile: www.norfolkcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Norwich Community Hospital, Bowthorpe Road
Town: Norwich
NUTS code: UKH1
Postal code: NR2 3TU
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: steven.worley@nchc.nhs.uk
I.2)Information about joint procurement
On behalf of the Norfolk and Waveney Health Care Partnership: https://www.england.nhs.uk/integratedcare/stps/view-stps/norfolk-and-waveney/
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Nursing Associate Apprenticeship Training
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Norfolk Community Health and Care(NCHC) are establishing a framework agreement with multiple suppliers that will include the terms and conditions for making a number of call offs (Individual purchases). Norfolk Community Health and Care, acting as the Procurement lead for the Norfolk and Waveney STP, is seeking a capable and qualified partners to deliver a training cohort of Nursing Associate Apprenticeships. (https://www.england.nhs.uk/systemchange/view-stps/norfolk-and-waveney/)
This programme can only be delivered by providers who are geographically suited to provide a service to the Norfolk and Waveney STP footprint – or are able to provide suitable distance learning training.
This procurement is being conducted under the Light Touch Regime (Award of a contract for a Schedule 3 service above the LTR threshold).
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
East Anglia.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Norfolk Community Health and Care (acting as the Procurement lead for the Norfolk and Waveney STP provider Trusts) is seeking capable and qualified partners to deliver a training cohort of Nursing Associate Apprenticeships. The programme aims to produce nursing associates who are fit to practice in the widest range of settings.The programme combines academic and work-based learning through close collaboration between employers and education providers. As an employee, a trainee nursing associate will be based in a particular organisation in a specific setting. But they will also experience working in alternative settings to gain a wide appreciation of many health and care environments to fulfil all the requirements of the programme. At the end of the programme, the trainee will be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviors relevant to employment as a nursing associate.
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract or the framework agreement
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.4)Objective rules and criteria for participation
Full tender participation criteria are listed within the tender documents.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Form of procedure
IV.1.3)Information about framework agreement
The maximum duration of this framework will be 48 months.
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate / Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.2)Information about electronic workflows
VI.3)Additional information:
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Norwich:-Health-training-services./4V334WY596
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/4V334WY596
Go reference: GO-2020522-PRO-16605539
VI.4.1)Review body
Postal address: Bowthorpe Road
Town: Norwich
Postal code: NR2 3TU
Country: United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1603785866
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
Postal address: Bowthorpe Road
Town: Norwich
Postal code: NR2 3TU
Country: United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1603785866
VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Postal address: Bowthorpe Road
Town: Norwich
Postal code: NR2 3TU
Country: United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1603785866
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: