UK-Ipswich: health and social work services

Country:

United Kingdom

City/Locality:

IPSWICH

Notice/Contract Number:

eu:183389-2008

Publication Date:

Jul 25, 2008

Deadline:

Aug 26, 2008

Buyer:

SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL

Original Language:

English

Address:

SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
IPSWICH , Suffolk
United Kingdom

Web Site:

www.suffolkcc.gov.uk

85000000 - Health and social work services

Notice Type: 2210
-
Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 137/2008
, #
183389-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Suffolk County Council,
Sourcing, Procurement & Contract Management Endeavour House 8 Russell
Road, Attn: Mr Jody Adams, UK-Ipswich IP1 2BX. Tel. 014 73 26 44 61.
E-mail: jody.adams@pss.suffolkcc.gov.uk. Fax 014 73 21 69 15.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.suffolkcc.gov.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 authority.
General public services.
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:
Mental Health Pooled Fund.
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: Suffolk.
NUTS code: UKH14.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Suffolk County
Council, Suffolk Primary Care Trust and Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary
Care Trust have put their money together in a Pooled Fund to buy services
for people with mental health problems. On behalf of the pooled fund
Suffolk County Council wants to commission a range of community based
services for individuals with mental health problems. The five community
based services being commissioned are Community Recovery Workers, Family
Carers Service, Advocacy, Community Resource Services and Employment
services. All of the services will be expected to promote community
involvement and participation and will promote self care and self
management.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 85000000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
No.
II.1.8) Division into lots: Yes.
Tenders should be submitted for: one or more lots.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.1) Total quantity or scope: This contract is split into 5 lots, as
follows: 1. Community Recovery Services 2. Employment Services 3. Family
Carers 4. Community Resource Service 5. Advocacy Services.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 6 420 000 GBP.
II.2.2) Options: No.
II.3) DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION: Starting:
1.1.2009. Completion: 31.12.2011.
INFORMATION ABOUT LOTS
LOT NO 1
TITLE: Community Recovery Service
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: Community Recovery Workers will work with adults
suffering from mental health problems to enable them to live as
independently as possible, take control of their lives and access
opportunities that support and maintain recovery. Individuals will be
referred to the service when it has been identified that specific recovery
work is needed to enable them to reach realistic and definable goals that
have been included in their individual support plan and overall care plan.
The service will be delivered through face-to-face contact (visits to the
service user at home or meetings in other locations), telephone support or
appointments at the service providers office premises.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 85000000.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Starting: 1.1.2009 Completion: 31.12.2011.
LOT NO 2
TITLE: Employment Service
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: People with severe mental health conditions have
the lowest employment rate for any of the main groups of disabled people.
Work is an important element in maintaining mental health and promoting
the recovery and wellbeing of those who have experience mental health
conditions. The service will enable people with mental health problems to
maintain and/or re-build meaningful, valued and satisfying lives, even in
the face of ongoing mental health problems. Service providers will work
with all service users to agree individually tailored development plans
and support programmes. The individual support plan should include
measurable goals, plans and timescales specifically related to employment
support. This should be reviewed at a minimum of quarterly intervals. It
will focus on Recovery and introducing and enabling individuals to access
vocational and employment opportunities by building their confidence and
increasing their skills in a planned way. Providers will evidence that the
service user has been involved in setting goals and targets within the
Individual Support Plan. The Individual Support Plan will also include
plans for moving on from the service in a positive manner, that reflects
successful recovery.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 85000000.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Starting: 1.1.2009 Completion: 31.12.2011.
LOT NO 3
TITLE: Family Carers
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: The aim of the service is to provide a countywide
service to families caring for someone with a mental health need to enable
them to access services in the community, to sustain their caring role,
promote their own health and wellbeing, maintain employment and improve
their quality of life. The service will also enable family carers to
influence the planning and development of services and supports. The
service provider will: — Work with individual family carers to ensure that
they have access to relevant information and are supported in their caring
role — Advocate for family carers of people with mental health needs —
Support Family Carers to work with Pooled Fund Commissioners to plan and
deliver Mental Health Services.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 85000000.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Starting: 1.1.2009 Completion: 31.12.2011.
LOT NO 4
TITLE: Community Resource Service
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: The service will — Promote recovery and enable
people with mental health problems to maintain or re-build meaningful
lives. — Focus on community participation by supporting people to access
existing opportunities in their local communities — Reduce social
isolation by enabling relationships with people outside the mental health
system as well as other users of mental health services — Maximise service
user and carer choice and participation in service operation — Meet the
needs of diverse groups. Services need to be designed so that they can
explicitly meet needs arising from age, gender, ethnicity, religion,
sexuality and disability of black and minority ethnic communities.
Services need to be able to meet the needs of black and minority ethnic
communities including the new and emerging communities in Suffolk. —
Provide access to services for people who have serious mental health
problems including offering ongoing support to those with severe and
enduring problems who need it.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 85000000.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Starting: 1.1.2009 Completion: 31.12.2011.
LOT NO 5
TITLE: Advocacy Service
1) SHORT DESCRIPTION: Advocacy is speaking and taking action with someone
to ensure they can have their wishes heard, make their own choices and
take control over their own lives. Advocacy promotes social inclusion,
equality and justice. The role of the independent advocate will be to both
work with individual service users so that they have a wide range of
information provided in appropriate formats, support them in understanding
the issues causing concern and to explore options and implement the
choices that they makes. Advocates will be directed in their work at all
times by the wishes and interests of the people they advocate for.
2) COMMON PROCUREMENT VOCABULARY (CPV): 85000000.
4) INDICATION ABOUT DIFFERENT DATE FOR DURATION OF CONTRACT OR
STARTING/COMPLETION: Starting: 1.1.2009 Completion: 31.12.2011.
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
III.1) CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required: N/a.
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to
whom the contract is to be awarded: Joint & several liability.
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: Completion
of the ITT and all relevant attachments including confirmation that none
of the exclusion criteria in Articles 45.1 and 45.2 of the Directive
2004/18/EC apply.
III.2.3) Technical capacity: Information and formalities necessary for
evaluating if requirements are met: 1.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: 1. All people employed or
commissioned to carry out the services put forward by your organisation or
have access to information about clients have enchanced Criminal Records
Bureau clearance. 2. Your organisation actively implement an Equal
Opportunities and Diversity policy, Confidentiality and Information
governance policies, Health and safety procedures, DDA, and Age
Discrimination Act policies, in line with associated relevant legislation
and governance. 3. Your organisation has experience of providing the same
or similar services to other local authorities to that being tendered
within the last 3 years. 4. Your organisation can provide the services
requested within the service profile within the budget value given. 5.
Your organisation has experience of offering services to individuals with
mental health problems.
III.2.4) Reserved contracts: No.
III.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Open.
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.2.2) An electronic auction will be used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
CD0105.
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: 26.8.2008 - 12:00.
Payable documents: no.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
26.8.2008 - 12:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the
tender: Duration in month(s): 3 (from the date stated for receipt of
tender).
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders: Date: 26.8.2008 - 15:00.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT: Yes.
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 2011.
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU
FUNDS: No.
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Boundary Commission is currently
consulting on options for the future make-up of Local Government in
Suffolk. Any contract awarded as a result of this tender exercise will be
affected by the outcome of that review and a subsequent decision by the
Secretary of State. Tenderers are advised that tenders must submitted no
later than 1500 hours on 26.8.2008.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 14.7.2008.

Update: Jul 22, 2008

Notice Type: 8098
-
Additional information
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 140/2008
, #
186956-2008
Referenced Document Number: 183389-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Suffolk County Council, Sourcing, Procurement & Contract Management
Endeavour House 8 Russell Road, attn: Mr Jody Adams, UK-IP1 2BX Ipswich.
Tel. 014 73 26 44 61. E-mail: jody.adams@pss.suffolkcc.gov.uk. Fax 014 73
21 69 15.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 17.07.2008,
2008/S 137-183389)
RE: CPV: 85000000.
Health and social work services.Instead of: II.3)
Starting: 1.1.2009. Completion: 31.12.2011.
Read: II.3)
Starting: 1.1.2009. Completion: 31.3.2012 with the option to extend for up
to a further 4 months.

Update: Jul 25, 2008

Notice Type: 9008
-
Corrigenda
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities
EU Official Journal Publication: 143/2008
, #
191004-2008
Referenced Document Number: 183389-2008
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Open procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global or partial tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

Summary:
Suffolk County Council, Sourcing, Procurement & Contract Management
Endeavour House 8 Russell Road, attn: Mr Jody Adams, UK-IP1 2BX Ipswich.
Tel. 014 73 26 44 61. E-mail: jody.adams@pss.suffolkcc.gov.uk. Fax 014 73
21 69 15.
(Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, 17.07.2008,
2008/S 137-183389)
RE: CPV: 85000000.
Health and social work services.Instead of: II.3) :
Start 1.1.2009. End 31.12.2011.
Read: II.3) :
Start 1.4.2009. End 31.3.2012.

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