Public Health - NHS Health Check Programme
Prior information notice
Services
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Leicestershire County Council
County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire
LE3 8RA Leicester
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.3)Main activity
General public services
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II.B: Object of the contract (Supplies or services)
II.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Public Health - NHS Health Check Programme
II.2)Type of contract and place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 25: Health and social services
Leicestershire and Rutland.
Leicestershire and Rutland.
NUTS code UKF22
II.3)Information on framework agreement
II.4)Short description of nature and quantity or value of supplies or services:
The purpose of this PIN is to investigate the market to assess the level of interest in providing the NHS Health Check Programme on behalf of Leicestershire County Council and Rutland County Council. The information received from interested parties will be used to inform future procurement processes for this service. The Councils are assessing the possibility of employing an organisation or organisations that will bring flexibility, innovation and creativity to the NHS Health Check programme across the two Counties in order to increase the proportion of patients checked for their ten year cardiovascular risk.
II.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
85100000
II.6)Scheduled date for start of award procedures
II.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.8)Additional information:
Through issuing this PIN, Leicestershire County Council is seeking feedback from the market on the possibility of tendering its NHS Health Check Programme in Leicestershire and Rutland. Any organisation interested in participating in this exercise
should request a questionnaire from the named contract and return their responses by 26.2.2014. Interested parties should note that the County Council may seek further clarification and/or hold discussions with organisations who respond via the questionnaire. Please note, the County Council intend to use the information gathered to inform the options appraisal with regard to future tendering of the service. Participating in this exercise will not affect any party positively or negatively during any eventual procurement process and the County Council reserves the right not to proceed with any procurement process. Interested parties are further advised that any information submitted during the market sounding exercise will not form part of any eventual procurement process and that a failure to respond to this notice will not preclude them from responding to any future contract notice. The County Council will not meet any costs incurred by any party in responding to this notice. All responses will be treated as confidential.
should request a questionnaire from the named contract and return their responses by 26.2.2014. Interested parties should note that the County Council may seek further clarification and/or hold discussions with organisations who respond via the questionnaire. Please note, the County Council intend to use the information gathered to inform the options appraisal with regard to future tendering of the service. Participating in this exercise will not affect any party positively or negatively during any eventual procurement process and the County Council reserves the right not to proceed with any procurement process. Interested parties are further advised that any information submitted during the market sounding exercise will not form part of any eventual procurement process and that a failure to respond to this notice will not preclude them from responding to any future contract notice. The County Council will not meet any costs incurred by any party in responding to this notice. All responses will be treated as confidential.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
III.2)Conditions for participation
III.2.1)Information about reserved contracts
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about European Union funds
VI.2)Additional information:
VI.3)Information on general regulatory framework
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
5.2.2014