Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-20
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000
Submission deadline: 2019-06-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU (MLCSU) on behalf of the Commissioners, NHS Leicester City, NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and NHS West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) wish to publish their intent with regards to this procurement.
The CCG’s are looking to commission and receive bids from providers that can deliver this service. The LLR Children and Young People Emotional Mental Health and Wellbeing Triage and Navigation service will offer access to a wide range of information and advice, triage and signposting to the right services to meet the identified needs of the children and young people. The service will be delivered by a range of clinicians, both experienced generalists and specialists either via the telephone or online referrals. Self-referrals will be available via a dedicated telephone line.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU (MLCSU) on behalf of the Commissioners, NHS Leicester City, NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and NHS West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) wish to publish their intent with regards to this procurement. The service must be delivered across all 3 CCG's geographical reach. The CCG’s are looking to commission and receive bids from providers that can deliver this service.
The LLR Children and Young People Emotional Mental Health and Wellbeing Triage and Navigation service will offer access to a wide range of information and advice, triage and signposting to the right services to meet the identified needs of the children and young people. The service will be delivered by a range of clinicians, both experienced generalists and specialists either via the telephone or online referrals. Self-referrals will be available via a dedicated telephone line.
It is envisaged that this will be a personalised advice, triage and onward referral service that is responsive to children’s up to the age of 18 years old health needs which gives advice to health professionals in the community to provide clinical advice and support to decision making and admissions avoidance effort from a locally within the geographical boundaries of LLR. The provider must have in place a secure N3 connection.
The contract value is 192 000,00 GBP per annum. The whole life costing of this contract is 960 000,00 GBP.
The commissioners wish to offer a contract for a period of 3 years plus an option to extend for a further 2 years. The anticipated date the commissioners would like the service to start being delivered on the 1.10.2019.
The commissioners anticipate that this procurement will be awarded to 1 service provider or a lead provider on behalf of a consortium.
This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (“Regulations”). Accordingly, the Contracting Authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The Contracting Authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authorities are following is set out in the MOI and ITT. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Register on the portal webpage at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).
Once you have expressed your interest, please access the My ITTs page, where you can view all the documentation (and download if required) and construct your reply in the bravo online questionnaire, as instructed. The deadline will be detailed in the tender documentation. For technical support in submitting your Expression of Interest or registering on the “Bravo Solution” Electronic Sourcing system please contact the Bravo Solution helpdesk via Tel: 08000698630 or email: help@bravosolution.co.uk
All communications from Bidders (including their Bidder Members) during the period of the procurement must be directed to MLCSU via the “messaging” area within the ML CSU online procurement portal: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
Strictly no other forms of communication to MLCSU or the commissioner will be accepted (including telephone calls, postal queries/submissions, faxes or email communications) during this period.