East Staffordshire Community Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen to deliver community services for East Staffordshire CCG. We are looking for an established, innovative provider, who will be responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of all community services, inclusive of all ages, across the East Staffordshire geographical footprint.

The successful provider will need to ensure stability and rigour in the delivery of high quality, sustainable services as they are today, whilst also working to progress towards the vision for integrated community services in the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent STP and the NHS Long Term Plan. The contract is for a period of two years with an option to extend for up to one year.

This contract is for a maximum of £9,166,490 per annum (based on 2019/20 prices) which will be adjusted for future inflation and efficiency in line with NHS national guidance. This is a Block Arrangement which means the overall fixed value will not be adjusted for changes in Activity levels.

A bidder event is planned on 20th August at Branston Golf Club, Burton on Trent, DE14 3DP from 10am - 12pm . Bidders wishing to attend the event should register their interest through the messaging facility on the MLCSU Bravo portal and also email elizabeth.johnson1@nhs.net and Samantha.yates6@nhs.net.

Additional information: Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regimeservices for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the ITT documents.

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the Contracting Authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.

This tender will be operated via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. Details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.

This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Candidates wishing to participate must register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk(registration and use of th