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Contract Award

General Information
Country:   United Kingdom
City/Locality:   LEEDS
Notice/Contract Number:   eu:66104-2010
Publication Date:   Mar 5, 2010
Buyer:   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - SOCIAL CARE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT & CARE PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTORATE
Original Language:   English

Contact Information
Address:   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - SOCIAL CARE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT & CARE PARTNERSHIPS DIRECTORATE
LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom
Web Site:   www.dh.gov.uk

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Notice Type: 2280 - Contract award
Regulation of Procurement: European Communities, with participation by GPA countries
EU Official Journal Publication: 45/2010, #66104-2010
Referenced Document Number: 175333-2009
Contract Nature: Service contract
Procedure Type: Restricted procedure
Type of Bid Required: Not applicable
Awarding Criteria: The most economic tender
Successful Bidder: NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT AWARD
DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN: SQW Consulting, 48 Melville Street, Edinburgh EH3
7HF, UNITED KINGDOM.

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CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Department of Health - Social
Care; Local Government & Care Partnerships Directorate, Room 3N15 Quarry
House Quarry Hill, Attn: Lee Fisher, Leeds LS2 7UE, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel.
+44 1132546882. E-mail: lee.fisher@dh.gsi.gov.uk.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.dh.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/
Procurementandproposals/index.htm.
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: Common assessment framework for
adults demonstrator site programme - national evaluation.
II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of
performance: Services.
Service category No 8.
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
England.
NUTS code UK.
II.1.3) The notice involves: Contract(s) based on a dynamic purchasing
system (DPS).
II.1.4) Short description of the contract or purchase(s): The national
evaluation team will collate data and information supplied by each
demonstrator site and will, where practical and most effective, apply and
undertake evaluated research across all the CAF partnerships. The team
will:
— Work with the expert adviser to bring sites together to support and
accelerate their learning,
— Work closely with the initial nine CAF Demonstrator sites and additional
sites expected to begin work in January 2010,
— Manage data aggregation and reporting at the whole programme level based
on data and information from the demonstrator sites,
— Report to the project board on progress,
— Prepare material for transmission to interested stakeholders not
involved in the programme,
— Analyse the data and produce a final report which assesses the evidence
from the demonstrator sites about the effectiveness, including
cost-effectiveness, of a common assessment framework for adults,
— Give one or more presentations to DH and other interested stakeholders
on the findings of the demonstrator sites.
II.1.5) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV): 73000000, 73110000,
73200000, 73210000, 72310000, 72300000, 72312000, 72312100, 72313000,
72314000, 72316000, 85100000, 85140000, 72221000, 72224000, 73220000,
79400000, 79411000, 79411100, 79419000.
II.1.6) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
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
1. Please refer to section VI.2 Additional information. Weighting: 140.
IV.2.2) An electronic auction has been used: No.
IV.3) ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
EOI 53007 ITT 53290.
IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Contract
notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2009/S 120-175333 of 25.6.2009.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
TITLE: Common assessment framework for adults demonstrator site programme
- national evaluation.
V.1) Date of contract award decision: 12.1.2010.
V.2) NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED: 1.
V.3) NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT
AWARD DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN: SQW Consulting, 48 Melville Street,
Edinburgh EH3 7HF, UNITED KINGDOM.
V.5) THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED: No.
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
VI.1) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY
COMMUNITY FUNDS: No.
VI.2) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Evaluation criteria used.
1. Weight 5 - Clear leadership of work (Name of accountable individual
within the firm);
2. Weight 10 - Adequate qualifications and experience of the team. (Names
and CVs of team members) – should show experience and an understanding of
the area;
3. Weight 5 - Organisational capacity to undertake the work given other
commitments and contingencies. (Statement of wider team availability and
support arrangements – please advise what percentage of the individual’s
time will be spent on this contract);
4. Weight 5 - Reasonably timetabled schedule of work, with milestones, to
ensure the evaluation and required reports are completed on time and the
project is well managed;
5. Weight 5 - A clear understanding of the purpose/objective, importance
and policy relevance of the demonstrator sites and the evaluation;
6. Weight 15 - Proposal for the evaluation of the demonstrator sites in
line with the scope of work (i.e. how well the bid fits with the brief);
7. Weight 15 - Indication of a suitable evaluation methodology;
8. Weight 15 - Consideration of how the suppliers would show that the
findings of the research could be applied to help the delivery of policy
and practice in health and/or social care;
9. Weight 10 - Demonstration of how the supplier will strive to achieve
good working relationships with the demonstrator sites;
10. Weight 10 - Indication of the types and strength of evidence that the
suppliers realistically expect to be produced (including recognition of
the differences between the three policy areas in this regard) and how it
could be used to inform policy;
11. Weight 5 - Consideration of the relevance of diversity issues;
12. Weight 10 - Consideration of the use of comparison or control data,
with reasons for the decisions reached;
13. Weight 5 - Demonstration as to how the proposed evaluation will
involve service users and carers;
14. Weight 5 - Consideration of how findings from this research will be
disseminated;
15. Weight 5 - A well presented, logical tender using plain English.
(Judged by submission);
16. Weight 15 - Value for money.
Contract ends: 30/11/11.
VI.4) DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE: 3.3.2010.
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