UK-Cardiff: health and social work services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

KARNTIPH

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:165729-2008

Publication Date:

Jun 28, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 5, 2008

Buyer:

CARDIFF LOCAL HEALTH BOARD

Original Language:

English

Address:

CARDIFF LOCAL HEALTH BOARD
CARDIFF , Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
United Kingdom

Web Site:

http://www.cardifflhb.wales.nhs.uk

Notice Type: 2220
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Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 124/2008
, #
165729-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Cardiff Local Health Board,
Trenewydd, 5 Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Attn: Ian Gunney, UK-Cardiff CF5
2LD. Tel. (44) 29 20 55 22 12. E-mail: ian.gunney@cardifflhb.wales.nhs.uk.
Fax (44) 29 20 57 80 32.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
http://www.cardifflhb.wales.nhs.uk.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact
point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for
competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at:
As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned
contact point(s).
I.2) TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local agency/office.
Health.
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting
authorities: no.
SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT
II.1) DESCRIPTION
II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Establishment of a framework agreement for the provision of 24-hour
enhanced social care placements for individuals with mental health needs
in Cardiff.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 25.
Main place of performance: UK-Cardiff.
NUTS code: UKL22.
II.1.3) The notice involves: The establishment of a framework agreement.
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with
several operators.
Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 5.
Duration of the framework agreement: Duration in year(s): 3.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Cardiff Local
Health Board seeks to establish a framework agreement for the provision of
accommodation with 24-hour flexible support including for Cardiff
residents aged between 18 to 70 with severe and enduring mental health
needs.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 85000000, 85100000,
85140000, 85144000, 85144100.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: The LHB is unable to quantify likely
numbers of placements required at this point. However, it is the LHB's
intention to utilise a framework agreement to place individuals whose
needs are appropriate.
II.2.2) Options: Yes.
Description of these options: There is a common service specification
although the LHB has identified 2 distinct client groups with similar yet
distinct needs. These will be clearly identified in documentation that
will be made available to organisation as part of the Pre-Qualification
Process.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Duration in
months: 36 (from the award of the contract).
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: No.
III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or
reference to the relevant provisions regulating them: No.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: A framework agreement based on a
prescribed service specification.
III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the
contract is subject: No.
III.2) CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements
relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers: Information and
formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: (a) is
bankrupt or is being wound up, whose affairs are being administered by the
courts, who has entered into an arrangement with creditors or who is in
any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national
laws and regulations;
(b) is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an
order for compulsory winding-up or administration by the courts or for an
arrangement with creditors or is the subject of any other similar
proceeding under national laws or regulations;
(c) has been convicted of an offence concerning his professional conduct
by a judgement which has the force of res judicata;
(d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means
which the contracting authorities can justify;
(e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social
security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the
country in which he is established or those of the country of the
contracting authority;
(f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in
accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is
established or those of the country of the contracting authority.
III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity: Information and formalities
necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Details will be sought
as part of the pre-qualification questionnaire.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: Details will be sought as part of the
pre-qualification questionnaire.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to
tender or to participate: Envisaged number of operators 5.
IV.2) AWARD CRITERIA
IV.2.1) Award criteria: The most economically advantageous tender in
terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to
tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
CAR-ESC2008-01.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents
or descriptive documentTime limit for receipt of requests for documents or
for accessing documents: 5.8.2008 - 12:00.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
5.8.2008 - 12:00.
IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to
selected candidates: 11.8.2008.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 29.9.2008 - 12:00.
Place: Cardiff LHB.
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: No.
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The LHB seeks to have expressions of
interest from organisations, who will be required to submit a
pre-qualification questionnaire by the 5.8.2008. Formal invitations to
tender will be issued on the 11th of August and are required to be
submitted in hard copy to the LHB by 12:00 on the 29th of September. After
the tender submissions, formal interviews and presentations will be held
for successful candidates, following which a list of preferred providers
will be drawn up.
Buy4Wales Reference Number: 13468.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 26.6.2008.

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