Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-07-24
Buyer: Castle Point and Rochford CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
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 and Rochford, Basildon and Brentwood, Southend and Thurrock). The TCP is working to implement the new national service model for people with learning disabilities and/orautism 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 and 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 and Rochford, Basildon and Brentwood, Southend and Thurrock). The TCP is working to implement the new national service model for people with learning disabilities and / orautism 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 and 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 (2) understand the appetite of the specialist healthcare market to deliver the services. 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, Castle Point and Rochford CCG published a VEAT Notice on 8.12.2017 setting out their intention to award a contract directly to 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. A full due diligence process has taken place since the publication of the VEAT Notice to ensure that the Partnership have the right capacity and capabilities to deliver the services and achieve high quality value for money. The governance committees of each CCG reviewed the outputs of the due diligence process and have agreed the recommendation to award the Contract to Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust for a period of 7 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.
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. The interest from the specialist healthcare market at these 1:1 sessions was limited. 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 the 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. A VEAT Notice was published on 8th December 2018 setting out these findings and the intention of the CCG to award the services directly to Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust (HPFT) without further competition. No further expressions of interest were received from the market in response to the VEAT Notice. Following a strict due diligence process testing the delivery model of HPFT it has been agreed to award the contract.
Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE) - Allied Health Profession input to the delivery of the service specification in Mid Essex CCG, West Essex CCG and North East Essex CCG. Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) - Provision of integrated specialist LD services as per service specification in Southend CCG, Basildon & Brentwood CCG, Thurrock CCG and Castle Point & Rochford CCG
Castle Point and Rochford CCG are the Lead Commissioner. The other 6 CCGs in Essex are associates to this contract, these are Mid Essex CCG, North East Essex CCG, West Essex CCG, Thurrock CCG, Basildon & Brentwood CCG and Southend CCG.


Winner: Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Award value: 144000000
Number of bids: 1