Rough Sleeper Accommodation Programme - RSAP Phase 1

CPV: Health and social work services

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0023 Concession Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/23/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Unspecified in notice

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

27 Oct 2023, 14:36 BST

Last source update

27 Oct 2023, 14:36 BST

Authority reference

DN687880

FTS notice number

2023/S 000-031817

Classification (CPV)

Health and social work services

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-040fba Find a Tender

Why no open competition

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Published justification

The Modification/ VEAT Notice will come under the following PCR 2015 clause which is Regulation 32 ‘Use of a negotiated procedure without prior publication’. Section- the general grounds of the clause.

72 General grounds

(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:—

(a)where no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered and that a report is sent to the Commission where it so requests;

(b)where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:—

(i)the aim of the procurement is the creation or acquisition of a unique work of art or artistic performance,(ii)competition is absent for technical reasons,(iii)the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights,

but only, in the case of paragraphs (ii) and (iii), where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement;

(c)insofar as is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a)—

(a)a tender shall be considered not to be suitable where it is irrelevant to the contract, being manifestly incapable, without substantial changes, of meeting the contracting authority’s needs and requirements as specified in the procurement documents;(b)a request to participate shall be considered not to be suitable where the economic operator concerned—

(i)is to be or may be excluded under regulation 57, or(ii)does not meet the selection criteria.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances invoked to justify extreme urgency must not in any event be attributable to the contracting authority.

At the time of the original contract Great Places Housing was awarded the contract due to their experience of delivering a similar service Housing First and the speed required to mobilise. It would have been very difficult for another provider to mobilise and establish the programme in this timeframe.

• Great Places Housing GroupAwarded supplier 2a Derwent Avenue, Manchester, UK, M21 7QP

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