Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-12-08
Buyer: Castle Point and Rochford CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 144000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Southend, Essex and Thurrock Transforming Care Partnership (TCP) consists of 3 local authorities (Essex County, Southend Borough and Thurrock Borough Councils) and 7 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) (West Essex, Mid Essex, and North East Essex, Castle Point & Rochford, Basildon & Brentwood, Southend and Thurrock).
The TCP is working to implement the new national service model for people with learning disabilities and/or autism that display behaviour that challenges, as described in “Building the Right Support”.
Whilst recognising the need to transform local systems for those people specifically identified within Transforming Care, the TCP is committed to improving the life outcomes of all people with learning disabilities (who may also have a condition on the Autistic spectrum). We are therefore taking the opportunity to transform the wider health & social care system for all individuals with a learning disability.
The Southend, Essex and Thurrock Transforming Care Partnership (TCP) consists of 3 local authorities (Essex County, Southend Borough and Thurrock Borough Councils) and 7 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) (West Essex, Mid Essex, and North East Essex, Castle Point & Rochford, Basildon & Brentwood, Southend and Thurrock).
The TCP is working to implement the new national service model for people with learning disabilities and / or autism that display behaviour that challenges, as described in “Building the Right Support”.
Whilst recognising the need to transform local systems for those people specifically identified within Transforming Care, the TCP is committed to improving the life outcomes of all people with learning disabilities (who may also have a condition on the Autistic spectrum). We are therefore taking the opportunity to transform the wider health & social care system for all individuals with a learning disability.
The Essex Transforming Care Partnership have been having detailed discussions with the wider market for health and social care services since 4.2017, this engagement has been used to
(1) ensure the views of all relevant professionals are taken into account in designing the services and
A PIN Notice and Request for Information (RFI) was published during 7.2017. The results of the RFI concluded that there was only one capable provider interested in delivering the services. Therefore, it is the CCGs intention to enter into a contract with one of the incumbent providers, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust who will be delivering the services as a lead provider and will hold sub contracting relationships with Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and Anglian Community Enterprise.
The governance committees of each CCG reviewed the options for this service and it has been agreed to award a contract to Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, without prior publication of a call for competition. This is for a period of 7 years with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years.
This procurement is a joint agreement between NHS Castle Point & Rochford CCG (as the contract lead), NHS Basildon & Brentwood CCG, NHS Southend CCG, NHS Thurrock CCG, NHS West Essex CCG, NHS Mid Essex CCG and NHS North East Essex CCG.
The Transforming Care Partnership has been reviewing the services for a period of 18 months. Significant coproduction of the service model has taken place with both patients and service providers to determine the model which best meets the needs of the Essex population.
A full market engagement process has been conducted, which began in 4.2017. This was published in Contracts Finder and was open for all providers to take part. The purpose of this was to gain providers input into the commissioners requirements. Further market engagement sessions were undertaken with providers, through 1:1 sessions. To support this process the draft specification and relevant information was shared with the market. This was used to understand market interest in the opportunity as well as to obtain professional feedback into the service delivery model.
To support the final decision on whether a procurement process would be successful the commissioners published a PIN Notice during 10.2017. This was accompanied by a Request for Information for completion by the market. There was a return from only one capable provider expressing an interest in delivering these services. This was received from a partnership consisting of the 3 incumbent providers across Essex, with Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust as the named “Lead” Provider.
The outputs of all elements of the market engagement undertaken have been reviewed in detail. This demonstrated that there is a limited market interested in delivering these services and that a procurement process is unlikely to deliver any additional value to the commissioners or to the users of the services.


Winner: Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Award value: 144000000