Health and social work services

Tender description

Arden and GEM CSU is conducting this procurement exercise on behalf of Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (LC CCG), East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (WL CCG) (“The Commissioners”), to seek suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver the ‘Diabetes Structured Patient Education’ (DSPE) service. The DSPE service will provide a patient centred diabetes education for adult patients with Type2 diabetes within LLR to support them in the effective self-management of their condition. Programmes should be delivered by appropriate trained educators, evidence-based and suit the needs of the individual. The programmes should have specific aims and learning objectives and support individual plus their family and carers in developing positive attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and skills to self-manage their diabetes. It is the intention of the Commissioners to enter into 1 contract for this service, however, consortium/federation proposals for the 3 + 2 year contract would be considered. Please note that the +2 year extension is subject to the satisfactory performance of the service in the initial period of the contract. The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) (‘the Regulations’). Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Part B services. The Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation will be available from 6.10.15 and should be completed and all bids submitted by the closing date of 17:00 on 10.11.15. All submissions will be evaluated using the scoring criteria which is contained within the ITT -Document 1. Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process, the deadline for clarification questions is 17:00 on 2.11.15. All correspondence relating to this procurement throughout all stages of the process must be managed through the Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit. (AGEM CSU) eTendering Procurement Portal bravosolutions only. Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service can do so by logging onto https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk procurement portal (Bravo) as soon as possible at: To register on the portal: — From the portal Home Page, click the ‘Click Here to Register’ link; — Accept the terms and conditions for using the portal; — Complete your organisation and personal details; — Choose a memorable username and submit; — You will shortly be sent an email with your unique password, please treat this securely (if you lose it there is a ‘Forgot my Password’ link on the portal homepage); To Access the portal: — Login with your unique username and password; — From the suppliers reserved area click ‘ITTs Open to All Suppliers’ –this is a repository of all ITT’s open to any registered supplier; — Browse the ITTs (there may be more than 1 page) and select ‘Open Mind (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies and Primary Care Mental Health Facilitators Services) — Leicester City CCG’ by clicking on it. Powered by BravoSolution eSourcing Technology Note the Details buttons on the left for Navigation and the Actions below: — Click the ‘Express Interest’ action –this will move the ITT from the ITTs Open to All Suppliers area to your ‘My ITTs’ area –this is a reserved area for ITTs that you have either been invited to or expressed interest in.