Lancashire & South Cumbria Adults Mental Health-Lot 1 Peer Support, Lot 2 PH SMI

Description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) has been working on behalf of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) who were looking to undertake a multi-lot Competitive Process for the provision of Adult Mental Health Services (Lot 1 - Peer Support and Lot 2 - Physical Health Checks for people with Serious Mental Illness (PH SMI) Outreach Service). During 2023 and 2024 the community Mental Health Transformation programme has worked to coproduce an integrated model of support for people living with severe mental illness, develop pathways and articulate what interventions are required to support people to live well in their local communities. This work has informed what services will be required as part of the model going forward. The ICB is committed to providing stability to the sector and a model of services is being proposed, which will procure services. It was the intention of the ICB to start commissioning contracts for the above services from 1st December 2024 for 2 years and 4 months, with an option to extend for a further 2 years. Lot 1 - Peer Support - Annual Value Lot 1a Blackpool £254,582 Lot 1b Blackburn with Darwen £267,475 Lot 1c South Cumbria £161,454 Lot 1d Lancashire East £485,740 Lot 1e Lancashire Central £468,117 Lot 1f Lancashire North £312,632 Lot 2 - PH SMI - Annual Value Lot 2a Blackpool £78,333 Lot 2b Blackburn with Darwen £82,300 Lot 2c South Cumbria £49,678 Lot 2d Lancashire East £149,459 Lot 2e Lancashire Central £144,036 Lot 2f Lancashire North £96,194 The ITT was available between Wednesday 24th April 2024 and Tuesday 28th May 2024 12:00pm mid-day. The Commissioner reserved the right to reject bids that exceeded the indicated budget. To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process, providers were instructed to register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome . There was a maximum of 12 contracts totalling £2,550,000 annually. The overall maximum contract value for all 12 lots, including possible contract extensions was £11,050,000. The relevant reference number for this tender was C253483 and the questionnaires were located within the requirements. The ICB set an affordability threshold for each lot. Bidders who submitted a bid over the maximum contract values in the procurement documents, would not achieve the score of a pass. There wasn't a competition on price. The competitive tendering process to which this ITT relates to and further to which the Authority intends to purchase the Services as set out in regulation 11 of the provider selection regime 2023 for the award of a contract with a competition. This ITT was made available to all Bidders who expressed a potential interest in delivering this service in line with the requirements which fall under Regulation 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services was run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation in this ITT, and in the Find a Tender contract notice advertisement.