Broad Based Masters Level Education Programme โ€“ Advanced Practice (Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) and Advanced Midwifery Practice (AMP))

Health Service Executive (HSE)

The Health Service Executive (on behalf of all Publicly Funded Health Agencies) invites tenders from suitably qualified parties capable of offering post-graduate nurse and midwife education in Ireland, to develop and deliver education programmes at NFQ Level 9 for advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice for up to 110 nurses and midwives per academic year.
This tender exercise will be conducted with the HEIโ€™s that offer nurse/midwife education, to select a provider(s) that can offer both a 1 year graduate certificate education programme and a 2-year part-time option for a broad based masters level education programme โ€“ advanced practice nursing and advanced practice midwifery to commence in September 2020.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2020-01-17. The procurement was published on 2019-12-09.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2019-12-09 Contract notice
Contract notice (2019-12-09)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Higher education services
Reference number: HSE 13283
Short description:
The Health Service Executive (on behalf of all Publicly Funded Health Agencies) invites tenders from suitably qualified parties capable of offering post-graduate nurse and midwife education in Ireland, to develop and deliver education programmes at NFQ Level 9 for advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice for up to 110 nurses and midwives per academic year. This tender exercise will be conducted with the HEIโ€™s that offer nurse/midwife education, to select a provider(s) that can offer both a 1 year graduate certificate education programme and a 2-year part-time option for a broad based masters level education programme โ€“ advanced practice nursing and advanced practice midwifery to commence in September 2020.
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Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Higher education services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Medical education services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Health Service Executive (HSE)
Postal address: Head Office Millennium Park
Postal town: Naas
Contact
Internet address: http://www.hse.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: rita.oconnell@hse.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 51842687 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=157884&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=157884&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-12-09 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2020-01-17 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2019-12-12 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 240-589219
OJ-S issue: 240

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The Health Service Executive (on behalf of all Publicly Funded Health Agencies) invites tenders from suitably qualified parties capable of offering post-graduate nurse and midwife education in Ireland, to develop and deliver education programmes at NFQ Level 9 for advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice for up to 110 nurses and midwives per academic year.
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This tender exercise will be conducted with the HEIโ€™s that offer nurse/midwife education, to select a provider(s) that can offer both a 1 year graduate certificate education programme and a 2-year part-time option for a broad based masters level education programme โ€“ advanced practice nursing and advanced practice midwifery to commence in September 2020.
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Estimated total value: 6 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Short description:
This tender exercise will be conducted with the HEIโ€™s that offer nurse/midwife education, to select a provider(s) that can offer both a one year graduate certificate education programme and a 2 year part-time option for a broad based Masters level education programme โ€“ Advanced Practice Nursing and Advanced Practice Midwifery to commence in September 2020.
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The Department of Health published a new model for developing advanced nursing and advanced midwifery practice with the publication of โ€˜A Policy on the Development of Graduate to Advanced Nursing and Midwifery Practiceโ€™ in July 2019: https://assets.gov.ie/19260/f49c5ea1a19843b0aae20151aeaf694d.pdf
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The implementation of this policy will be critical to the implementation of the Slรกintecare health reform programme and expanding the contribution of advanced nurse and advanced midwife practitioners in delivering the objectives of the health reform programme. https://webarchive.oireachtas.ie/parliament/media/committees/futureofhealthcare/oireachtas-committee-on-the-future-of-healthcare-slaintecare-report-300517.pdf
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The evidence shows that when advanced practitioners are located in sufficient numbers in specific areas they can have a real impact on some of the key challenges in the health service.
The new model goes a long way towards ensuring that care is delivered to the right person, at the right time and in the right place โ€“ as close to home as possible. Importantly, it also puts in place a career pathway for nurses and midwives, which is a key element in recruitment and retaining staff.
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The aim of the policy is to have 2 % of the nursing and midwifery workforce working as advanced n
Estimated value excluding VAT: 6 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Duration: 36 months

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Irish ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender opening date: 2020-01-17 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening time: 12:00
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Demonstrated merit of the programme delivery
Quality criterion (weighting): 50 %
Quality criterion (name): Application process
Quality criterion (weighting): 5 %
Quality criterion (name): Deferral/repeat examinations/attrition
Communication processes
Geographical ease of use for trainees
Quality criterion (weighting): 10 %
Cost criterion (name): Costing of education programmes
Cost criterion (weighting): 25 %

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Rita O Connell
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/461 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=157884&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Four Courts
Postal address: Ground Floor (East Wing)
Postal town: Inns Quay
Postal code: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +353 18886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Fax: +353 18886125 ๐Ÿ“ 
Source: OJS 2019/S 240-589219 (2019-12-09)