Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2016-10-08
Buyer: Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 58800000 EUR

Technical requirements: This advert confirms that on 4.4.2016, Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) issued an invitation to Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) to participate in a ‘Most Capable Provider’ assessment for the provision of a single Oxfordshire CAMHS. OCCG intends to continue this process and will be assessing the Trust against planned criteria and a scoring methodology. This will be a pass or fail process. We are anticipating that the new contract will commence in April 2017, subject to the outcome of this process.
Furthermore, the Trust is currently delivering an integrated service with the Local Authority's Children's Services and this will be extended substantially in the new specification. OCCG believes the incumbent provider is best placed to continue to develop the integration with the local authority's Children's Services and deliver a transformed service based on current evidence of integrated working and quality of performance.
The new CAMHS model will be a departure from the traditional tiered service and will have one single point of access (SPA) for all the CAMH Services including early mental health support. The new model is based on the Thrive model as described in Future in Mind. CAMHS will no longer be commissioned to provide Primary Mental Health (tier 2) and CAMHS (tier3) as separate services, but will form one integrated service which will deliver early mental health support and more specialist intervention, which will be described as “Coping”, “Getting Support”, Getting More Support” and “Getting Crisis Support”.
The contract will be for five years with one optional two year extension, and will have an estimated annual value of GBP 8.4m.
OCCG has assessed the potential market and the quality of the incumbent provider (the Trust) and has evidenced that the Trust's CAMHS services are well led, value for money and are delivering good and outstanding services to the local population which is supported by the feedback from services users. This is in accordance with the Oxfordshire CAMHS Review 2015 and the recent CQC inspection. From this assessment (including previous advertising by a neighbouring CCG for similar services) and the specific nature of the required integration, OCCG believes the Trust to be the only capable provider of providing this service. Furthermore, this process was commenced prior to  18.4.2016 and is therefore subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, and as a healthcare service is classified as a ‘Part B’ Residual Service meaning the CCG is not required to advertise the opportunity. Furthermore, this process will fully comply with the requirements of the NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013.
Please note that this service is a healthcare service within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No.2) Regulations 2013 and that this process started prior to  18.4.2016 meaning that it is subject to the UK Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and is categorised as a ‘Part B’ Residual Service under those regulations. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. In addition, the Commissioner will only be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the commissioning of these services.


Award value: 58800000