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Request For Proposals

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   LONDON
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:300714-2009
Publication Date:   Oct 29, 2009
Deadline:   Dec 2, 2009
Buyer:   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
LONDON
United Kingdom
Web Site:   https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/DHSupplierRegistration.jsp

Goods, Works and Services

 

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Notice Type: 2220 - Contract notice
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 209/2009, #300714-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Global tender
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender

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CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Department of Health,
Procurement Centre of Expertise, 5th Floor, New Kings Beam House, 22 Upper
Ground, Attn: John R Cook, UK-London SE1 9BW. Tel. +44 2076337745. E-mail:
john.cook@dh.gsi.gov.uk.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority:
https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/DHSupplierRegistration.jsp.
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:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their
regional or local sub-divisions.
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:
Public Health Observatory in relation to the health and healthcare of
people with Learning Disabilities.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category: No 8.
Main place of performance: England.
II.1.3) The notice involves: A public contract.
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The Department
of Health (the Department) is inviting expressions of interest from
organisations who are interested in bidding to provide the following
service in England:
— A time limited public health observatory (PHO) service in England in
relation to the health and healthcare of people with learning
disabilities.
The Department is also inviting expressions of interest from organisations
in bidding to provide a time limited confidential inquiry in England into
the premature deaths of people with learning disabilities. That is the
subject of a separate contract. That is the subject of a separate
contract. The Department is prepared to consider bids from one
organisation for both the public health observatory and confidential
inquiry, but separate expressions of interest will need to be submitted
for the two pieces of work.
Background.
Valuing People Now: a new three year strategy for people with learning
disabilities (2009) sets out the Government’s commitment to undertake a
confidential inquiry into premature deaths among people with learning
disabilities and to establish a public health observatory to improve
information and data in relation to the health and healthcare of people
with learning disabilities. For further information see:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/
PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_093377.
Both these commitments were made in response to Healthcare for All, the
report of an independent inquiry, chaired by Sir Jonathan Michael, into
access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities. A copy of that
report is available at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/
Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_099255.
The PHO service will include work to improve the data and information
available to Primary Care Trusts and local authorities so that they can
commission services in ways that most effectively meet the health and care
needs of people with learning disabilities, and so that they can better
monitor quality of care and health outcomes. This will include developing
data and information sets, identifying examples of good practice,
developing tools to support commissioners in developing their own data and
information and embedding in on-going commissioning, and providing
practical tools and advice to help track people’s journeys through the
health and care systems.
The Department has established a Project Steering Group to oversee the
tender process, comprising representatives of people with Learning
Disabilities, their families and carers, Mencap, and NHS Commissioners, as
well as a project team from the Department to provide the necessary
project management function. In addition, the Department has established a
smaller Evaluation Panel – comprising some members of the Steering Group -
to provide recommendations to that Group on the expressions of interest,
and subsequently the tenders received. More details about the tender
evaluation process will be contained in the Invitation to Tender pack. The
tender process to select suppliers will occur over the coming months with
contracts anticipated to commence in March 2010.
The PHO is due to run over three years from March 2010 to February 2013,
with the service provider submitting regular written reports to the
Department. Initially the successful provider will have a contract to run
the PHO for twelve months to March 2011. The successful provider will
submit a detailed interim report by January 2011 for the Department to
assess the likelihood of delivery of the desired outcomes. At that stage
the Department will decide whether to extend the contract for a further
two years to February 2013 to complete the work of the public health
observatory.
II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73000000, 73200000,
79411000, 73220000.
II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.1.8) Division into lots: No.
II.1.9) Variants will be accepted: No.
II.2) QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
II.2.2) Options: No.
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.3) CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
III.3.1) Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
III.3.2) Legal entities should indicate the names and professional
qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
No.
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
IV.1) TYPE OF PROCEDURE
IV.1.1) Type of procedure: Restricted.
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:
EOI 53366.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: No.
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:
2.12.2009 - 15:00.
IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be
drawn up: English.
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: All participants must complete a PQQ which
covers economic, financial and technical capabilities.
Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information:
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the DH eTendering portal at
https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/DHSupplierRegistration.jsp.
Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their
expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific
information (if required) through the DH eTendering portal as follows:
For new supplier who have not previously contracted with DH, please click
on the new supplier link and submit your company and details. You will be
sent an acceptance e-mail and then will be asked to create your user
account (see step 2).
After accessing the above link - https://www.showa.dh.gov.uk/OA_HTML/
DHSupplierRegistration.jsp.
The following page will be displayed,
Please click on the link below for suppliers not registered -.
Step 1) Register as a New Supplier.
Please click on the link below for suppliers already registered but do not
have a user account -.
Step 2) Register a New User (Request for new user account).
For suppliers who have already registered and have received a login and
password, please click on login to eTendering system link -.
Step 3) Login into eTendering system.
Once registered candidates must express their interest as follows -.
A) Login to the DH eTendering portal
B) Select sourcing home page and enter expression of interest number 53366
in the search field provided.
C) Transaction displayed on page.
D) Select radio button and click on quick link to expres interest, review
documentation and upload your response.
E) You must then publish your reply using the publish button.
For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact
the eTendering Help desk at +44 1132545777 or for procurement related
queries please contact +44 2076337745.
VI.5) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 26.10.2009.
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