Intermediate Care Beds

Tender description

The provision Intermediate Care Beds within the Sheffield Region to improve the patient pathway.The Trust has a requirement for IC Beds, Bariatric Beds and EMI beds. Full details will be included within the ITT when advertised. This PIN intends to serve as a call for competition.TUPE will apply to this contract Lot 1: A light touch regime procurement exercise to identify provider(s) for the delivery of the bed-based element of Sheffield’s intermediate care services offering. A general overview of the process will be:-Publish PIN as a call for competition and to try to identify as many providers in the market as possible.ITT Stage - Mandatory Questions Financial checksOnly bidders who confirm acceptance to the mandatory criteria and who's finances are not deemed as a risk to the Trust will be taken through to the next stage.Stage 2 will see bidders scored against the responses to the scored criteria and commercial elements.Site visits will be performed by the Trust to confirm the responses provided. This includes the mandatory question set. All bid scores will be moderated accordingly.Once the site visit has taken place and the final score allocated against each response is 'confirmed' The quality and commercial scores for each bidder will be built in to provide a final outcome. Further conversations may be required as the Trust has a specified number of beds it needs in Summer, and again in Winter. The ITT will provide a full process, specification and timeline - you are advised to express your interest to james.tomlinson5@nhs.netThis is required before the deadline of Friday 29th October 21 at 5pm to give complete assurance that your response is not missed. The Trust want as many local providers as possible to bid for this contract, so to demonstrate value for money.Only providers who can provide the service locally (within the Sheffield region) will be considered due to the nature of the requirements. Please note it states to perform the services, not for the office headquarters to be based in Sheffield. Additional information: Please contact:-james.tomlinson5@nhs.net with you expression of interest.