0-19 Children's Public Health Nursing Service

Location

Within the Borough of Rotherham

Description

The Council is seeking a provider to deliver a Service contract, managing the responsibility for the provision of a Children's Public Health Nursing Service for the population of Rotherham. The Children's Public Health Nursing Service is primarily a preventative and early intervention service to deliver health care to families according to the Healthy Child Programme (HCP). The service will serve as a platform for delivering Universal, Targeted, Specialist and Community interventions to provide the wider required public health and health care outcomes. The Provider will work across the whole pre-conception, 0-19 population (up to 25 years for young people with additional needs) as part of a whole system approach that is universal in reach and personalised in its response. The detailed clinical scope of the services is described in the specification. The contract will be fixed for the initial 5 years at £24,960,000 and will be paid monthly in arrears at one twelfth of the £4,992,000, the annual value. There will be no facility to uplift the contract price within the 5-year contract period. Should the extension term be exercised from year 6, the cost of the Service will be change in line with the Office of National Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI) of the previous September. It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 01/04/2023 and will run for a period of 60 months making the expiry date 31/03/2028. The contract may then be extended for up to 5 years in any number or combination of extensions at the sole discretion of the Council, making the latest possible expiry date 31/03/2033.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85323000 - Community health services
• 85141000 - Services provided by medical personnel

Indicators

• Contract modified due to unforeseen circumstances.

Legal Justification

Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee. The Authority could not have foreseen the availability or continuation of specific grant funding to support this activity at the time of the original contract award. However, the modification is attributable to a subsequent decision by the Authority and does not exceed 25% of the original contract value.

Other Information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) contract modification notice, under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 no longer apply to this award. This contract has now been formally modified. The original contract notice was published on Find a Tender against reference 2022/S 000-009172 The decision maker was the Consultant in Public Health. Conflicts of interest have been considered and, where identified, managed in accordance with Council policy and statutory requirements under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. No conflicts remain among decision makers at the point of sign-off.