Functional Assessment Services (FAS) 2023 – Lot 2

Location

London

Description

This contract will be for the use of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) (Lots 1 to4) and the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland (Lot 5). The service provisionwill be primarily contracted through this procurement to the Authority but may allow otherGovernment Departments and their Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, anddevolved administrations (including but not limited to HM Revenue and Customs, Ministry ofDefence, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, National Health and Social Care) to access theservices.To support the determination of an individual’s entitlement to benefit, the Authority requiresthe delivery of a range of compatible and sympathetic Functional Health Assessments(FAS). The results of these assessments form one part of the evidence utilised by theAuthority Decision Maker in making the ultimate decision on benefit entitlement on behalf ofthe Secretary of State.FAS Suppliers will be expected to deliver functional health assessments in relation to thefollowing benefits:• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)- https://www.gov.uk/pip• Employment Support Allowance (ESA)- https://www.gov.uk/employment-supportallowance• Universal Credit (UC)- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-if-you-have-a-disabi... 4 to 22• The delivery of assessments/advice associated with 15 other specialist benefits, for bothDWP and other Government Departments, including Veterans UK, HM Courts and TribunalsService and HM Revenue and Customs DWP ran a procurement using the Light Touch Regime and a modified process withcommercial dialogue in accordance with Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public ContractsRegulations 2015. For Lot 5, DWP conducted aspects of the procurement process on behalfof the Department for Communities (DfC) in Northern Ireland. The procedure is set outclearly in the published Invitation to Tender document. The service will be divided into five (5) geographical lots:Lot 1 – Northern England and ScotlandLot 2 – Midlands and WalesLot 3 – South West EnglandLot 4 – London, South East & East AngliaLot 5 – Northern Ireland

Total Quantity or Scope

See II.1.4) Short Description

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Other Information

For Clarity and avoidance of doubt: This Contract was published on Contracts Finder and is being reproduced on FTS in order to publish a REG 72 PCR2015 modification to it. https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/803dffa5-fd46-4361-ac8e-e55850... Award criteria additional informationThe procurement used the Price per Quality Point (PQP) methodology to determine the finalranked position of each bid in each Lot. PQP divides a bid’s price by its assessed quality score to produce an output Price per QualityPoint. This is used to rank each bid in each Lot from highest rank, 1, which has the lowest PQPto lowest rank which has the highest PQP.Final Lot ValuesThe individual lot values shown in the FAS Contract Notice (2021/S 000-028407) providedan estimated value per lot for a 5 year contract. The final lot values shown in Section V of this notice are the values including the initial 5 yearcontract term plus possible 2 year extension.The contracting authority in section I.1 is part of the Department for Work and Pensions andis acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions