Well Skelmersdale consultancy

NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group - Well Skelmersdale Consultancy - project L-19-07

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) are working on behalf of NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group who wish to soft market test for potential suppliers of consultancy services against the scope detailed below.

Background

Well Skelmersdale is a Well North pathfinder site which is about the local people who live in the heart of the Skelmersdale community day in day out.

Well Skelmersdale's goal is to create the conditions that allow the people of Skelmersdale to reach their full potential. It is about aiming high and creating healthy environments for healthy living. These are environments that foster better conditions in which to live, learn, work, play, grow, and socialise.

Well Skelmersdale is focused on unleashing the potential in the residents and the place.

Well Skelmersdale is a vibrant, diverse and growing collaboration across community, voluntary, faith, charitable, business, enterprise and public sectors focused around the same goal and with the same commitment to ensure we achieve what we set out to do. It's about raising aspiration, mobilising leadership and intelligent partnerships. It's about backing people who do real things that make a difference. All of this is being done with Skelmersdale communities at the forefront, providing the ideas, the solutions, the momentum, the leadership, and above all the natural passion to change.

Skelmersdale is a town in West Lancashire, England, on the River Tawd, 6 miles (10 km) west of Wigan, 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Liverpool and 15 miles (24 km)southwest of Preston and has a population of 38,000 residents.

The town borders the village of Upholland to the east, eventually leading into the Wigan area of Greater Manchester, West Lancashire's administrative centre Ormskirk to the north-west, and Saint Helens to the south. The M58 runs through Skelmersdale. The New Town is the larger eastern half of the town, the Old Skelmersdale Town is the smaller portion to the west.

Skelmersdale was designated a New Town in 1961, designed to house overspill population from the north Merseyside conurbation. The town itself is a hive of urban activity with a number of industrial estates and shopping areas, yet is surrounded by attractive wooded valleys and cloughs with plenty of wide green open spaces.

Additional information: NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is the statutory body responsible for holding and managing the Well Skelmersdale budget. NHS West Lancashire CCG, on behalf of the Well Skelmersdale pathfinder and partner organisations wishes to engage a SINGLE consultancy organisation to lead three major related schemes which the work must be completed by no later than March 2020:

The schemes

Scheme 1 - To support Well Skelmersdale and West Lancashire Borough Council by providing business consultancy to identify and secure high profile, wealth generating businesses that are willing to invest in the town centre of Skelmersdale to assist regeneration of the local economy and the employment of people who live in Skelmersdale.

Scheme 2 - To provide design consultancy, working with local people, local businesses and committed investors identified via scheme 1 above to reimagine the potential of a new town centre for Skelmersdale which must be fully costed, affordable within realistic revenue and deliverable by December 2020

Scheme 3 - To create a programme to unleash science capital across Skelmersdale and particularly to raise aspiration of local children and their parents in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects. This will involve arranging high profile science events to encourage children from Skelmersdale secondary schools to study STEM subjects to a higher level. The most important part of this work will be for the successful consultancy to work with all relevant partners to create a legacy of integrated programme of science, arts and health education which continues on a sustainable, lasting for at least 10 years after the high profile science events

For the purposes of soft market testing interested suppliers are required to submit by email:

CVs for the individuals who will be undertaking the work The daily rate of the individuals undertaking the work An estimate of the level of any expenses to be incurred Subcontractors and partners that will form part of the consultancy offered Details of the approach and outline mobilisation plan including timescales for the work offered

Affordability envelope

Interested suppliers should note the maximum affordability envelope for this opportunity is £88,000 exclusive of VAT.

The CCG is unable to accept any day rates which are in excess of £400 per day. Reasonable and justified travel and subsistence costs would be considered.

Web links

http://www.westlancashireccg.nhs.uk/ http://www.wellnorth.co.uk/pathfinders/well-skelmersdale https://twitter.com/well_skem https://twitter.com/WestLancsCCG https://twitter.com/MLCSUprocure https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mlcsu-procurement/