Official UK procurement notice
Provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Service
Authority: Buckinghamshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBuckinghamshire Council (acting as the Lead Authority), in partnership with Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking tenders from suitably experienced and qualified organisations for the provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Services (BICES) through the appointment of a single provider delivering those services as required under a framework arrangement.
The framework will be accessible to contracting authorities that fall under the NUTS code UKJ1 (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes). The current contract between Buckinghamshire Council and the incumbent provider ends on 19th June 2022 and the Councils intention is to call off from the single provider framework as from 20th June 2022. Call-off terms will be for 5 years with an option to extend for up to two further years.
No work or volume is guaranteed under the framework agreement, and any participating authority wishing to utilise the framework will enter into a separate call off with the successful provider.
The service will consist of the the timely provision of:
- An Integrated Community Equipment Service (Simple Aids to Daily Living/Complex Aids to Daily Living/Non-catalogue and bespoke items)
- Domestic Lift Maintenance
- Technology Enabled Care (including Monitoring and Response elements)
- Long Term Wheelchair Product Provision and Repair
- Continence Product Provision
- Diagnostic Equipment Provision
- Long Term Conditions Management Service
- Major Adaptations
- Clinician Support Services
CPV: Health and social work services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 3 bids received (3.0 per place) · 1 appointed (full)
- Framework period
5 yrs from 20 Jun 2022, The single provider framework agreement will be in place for four years but it is intended that the Call-Off will be for 5 years with an option to extend for up to a further 24 months.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedPublished value£350,000,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 55
- Price: 45
- Price carries 45 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4.5 points. Quality carries 55 of 100: the paper moves it further than the discount.
- “Provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Service” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 26 Nov 2021, 14:24 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Apr 2022, 15:12 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Jan 2022 – …
- Authority reference
DN583323- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-010305- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02fa85Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 4 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
4 Jan 2022 → 20 Jun 2022 · 4 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown4 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened4 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published20 Apr 2022, 15:12 BST
- Contract starts20 Jun 2022, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete20 Apr 2022, 15:12 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Service
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2022
- Value
- £350,000,000
- Period
- … – 19 Jun 2027
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids · 3 electronic | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
- The High CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- NRS HealthcareFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.