Notice Information
Notice Title
NHSE619 - Regional Interpretation & Translation Services
Notice Description
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement North East, NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) NHS Sunderland CCG and NHS South Tyneside CCG (the Contracting Authorities) who are commissioning Regional Interpretation and Translation Services for patients of primary care services across the North East region whose first language is not English. The Contract Term will be for 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years, subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance, with effect from 01 April 2021. As this is a non-clinical service, the procurement of this service is subject to The European Public Contracts Directive (2014/24/EU) and the tendering process was conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Open Procedure, Regulation 27 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR2015) (as amended). Bidders were tested on the capability, capacity and technical competence of their submission in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the Contracting Authorities must consider: (a) How, what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where it exercises its functions; and (b) How, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement. Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract was scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authorities relating to economic, social and environmental well-being. The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply. Bidders were advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services. NECS utilised an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential bidders. Accordingly, no hard copy documents were issued to potential bidders and all communications with NECS, including bidder submissions, were conducted via the in-tend portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu Tender documentation was be available on the e-tendering portal from 07 December 2020. The closing date for submission of tenders was 12:00 noon 11 January 2021.
Lot Information
Lot 1 - Face to face spoken language services, telephone interpreting, video interpreting and written translation
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement North East, NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) NHS Sunderland CCG and NHS South Tyneside CCG (the Contracting Authorities) who are commissioning Regional Interpretation and Translation Services for patients of primary care services across the North East region whose first language is not English. The Contract Term will be for 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years, subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance, with effect from 01 April 2021. As this is a non-clinical service, the procurement of this service was subject to The European Public Contracts Directive (2014/24/EU) and the tendering process was conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Open Procedure, Regulation 27 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR2015) (as amended). Bidders were tested on the capability, capacity and technical competence of their submission in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the Contracting Authorities must consider: (a) How, what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where it exercises its functions; and (b) How, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement. Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract was scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authorities relating to economic, social and environmental well-being. The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply. Bidders were advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services. NECS utilised an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential bidders. Accordingly, no hard copy documents were issued to potential bidders and all communications with NECS, including bidder submissions, were conducted via the in-tend portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu Tender documentation was be available on the e-tendering portal from 07 December 2020. The closing date for submission of tenders was 12:00 noon 11 January 2021.
Lot 2 - Face to face non-spoken language services and non-spoken video interpretingNorth of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement North East, NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) NHS Sunderland CCG and NHS South Tyneside CCG (the Contracting Authorities) who are commissioning Regional Interpretation and Translation Services for patients of primary care services across the North East region whose first language is not English. The Contract Term will be for 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years, subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance, with effect from 01 April 2021. As this is a non-clinical service, the procurement of this service was subject to The European Public Contracts Directive (2014/24/EU) and the tendering process was conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Open Procedure, Regulation 27 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR2015) (as amended). Bidders were tested on the capability, capacity and technical competence of their submission in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the Contracting Authorities must consider: (a) How, what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where it exercises its functions; and (b) How, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement. Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract was scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authorities relating to economic, social and environmental well-being. The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply. Bidders were advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services. NECS utilised an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential bidders. Accordingly, no hard copy documents were issued to potential bidders and all communications with NECS, including bidder submissions, were conducted via the in-tend portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu Tender documentation was be available on the e-tendering portal from 07 December 2020. The closing date for submission of tenders was 12:00 noon 11 January 2021.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-029a5a
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004841-2021
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
79530000 - Translation services
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £12,503,015 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Mar 20214 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 23 Feb 20215 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- necsu.neprocurement@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
- Postcode
- NE15 8NY
- Post Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLC North East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLC44 Sunderland
- Delivery Location
- TLC North East (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Sunderland
- Electoral Ward
- Castle
- Westminster Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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