Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-21
Buyer: NHS Southend Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85323000
Estimated value: 1739333 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Southend Clinical Commissioning Group, NHS Castle Point and Rochford Clinical Commissioning Group and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council (‘the Contracting Authorities’) invite suitably qualified service providers to tender for a South-east Essex Mental Health Wellbeing and Crisis Café Service.
The intention is to formally procure this new community resource to be operational from 1.11.2019 for a period of 54 months plus the option to extend for a further 24 months.
There are 2 elements to this service, both of which are recovery focused and seek to address mental health inequalities by working with more complex people within the system, enabling and empowering people to lead their own recovery and create peer support opportunities as well as sign posting people to the right community or clinical support. The proposed service model will combine two elements, a daytime wellbeing hub and an evening crisis cafe. Funding for the Mental Health Wellbeing hub is available from 1.11.2019. The crisis café element will have a staggered start date, with funding released in April 2020 for this part of the provision. Bidders will be required to ensure this is reflected in their service delivery proposals and commercial offer.
To access the procurement documentation, please go to the Bravo website at: https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk
Click on ‘Register here’ and follow the on-screen instructions. You can access the SQ by clicking on the link called ‘View current opportunities’ on the Home Page. Please note that the tender will not be accepted by any means other than through the Bravo e-Procurement Portal.
Disclaimer: the Contracting Authorities shall not be responsible for any costs or expenses incurred by respondents to this procurement in preparing and/or submitting such responses.
The potential aggregate contract value inclusive of any option to extend the term is 1 739 333 GBP. It should be noted that the available budget for the contract term (not including any extension period) is 1 187 333 GBP. The ‘Suggested Maximum Annual Price’ for each year of the contract is as follows:
The ‘Suggested Maximum Annual Price’ for each year above will apply as affordability envelopes for the purposes of bidding. Any bids received in excess of such affordability envelope will be rejected as non-compliant. The ‘Suggested Maximum Annual Price’ is an indication of maximum value only. Bidders are expected to price as competitively as possible. The ‘Suggested Maximum Annual Price’ excludes CQUIN and National Inflator.
Commissioners may wish to expand services during the lifetime of the contract potentially resulting in wider integrated services being delivered than set out in the specification at the time of contract award. Such modifications will be contemplated where such services are similar/complementary to the services already included in the specification at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services provided and/or commissioned by other SECCG, CPRCCG and or SBC departments. Commissioners may also add grant funding to the contract where such grants are awarded to the Contracting Authorities and relate to the services and outcomes required under the specification. The Contracting Authority do not guarantee or grant any exclusivity in relation to any such services during the life of the contract.
The services to which this procurement relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’). As such, the procurement of the services is being run as a bespoke, 2 stage process akin to the restricted procedure. The Contracting Authority does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.
(ii) any of the services included within the service specification at the date of publication of the Contract Notice shall not result in an automatic cancellation of the procurement process. See the ITT Process Overview document on how the Contracting Authorities will manage such matters should they arise.


Award value: 1739333