19 077 Infection Prevention Control Service

Cheshire East Council wishes to commission Infection Control related services to manage risk of spread of communicable disease. The commission will be split into two lots. The first involves delivery of a core infection prevention control service incorporating surveillance, prevention and outbreak response. The second lot involves delivery of specialist TB Nursing Services to the community including outreach, case management and new entrant screening. Both require work with key local stakeholders in order to deliver the services successfully. The contract(s) will be for an initial 3 years from 1st April 2020 with options to extend for 2 further periods of 12 months at the sole discretion of the Council. It should be noted that TUPE will apply to this commission. Interested parties should register their interest via the Chest system, reference DN392775. The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for organisations that are small or medium enterprises (SME's).

For the avoidance of doubt, the contracting authority points out that no weight will be attached to whether or not an economic operator is an SME in selecting economic operators to submit tenders or in assessing the most economically advantageous tender.