Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2020-10-07
Buyer: NHS Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85323000

Technical requirements: Community mental health services have long played a crucial role in the delivery of mental health care, providing vital support to people with mental health problems closer to their homes and communities. However, the model of care is now in need of fundamental transformation and modernisation.
The ambition for the NHS LTP is to ‘establish new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care to support at least 370 000 adults and older adults per year who have severe mental illnesses by 2023/2024, so that they will have greater choice and control over their care, and be supported to live well in their communities’.
The integrated primary and community care mental health service offer was developed through co-production. The costed delivery plan described a high-level model that could be nuanced for each place with a view to enable a system story which regulators are keen on, as well as to facilitate access to the national SMI Community Transformation funds.
Collaboratively delivering the key functions of Assessment and interventions, coordination and care planning and community connection would ensure improvement of quality of care, maximising continuity of care, promoting of holistic prevention version: 19 February 2019.
With a focus on evidence-based psychological and/or pharmacological treatment offers and reduce inequalities based on inclusivity. The offer will comprise the following components:
MH integrated offer within the PCN — Represents the MH team that will be embedded within the PCNs working as part of or with the enhanced primary care and social care teams.
Wrap around support offer — the integrated team will be supported by wider place services such as recovery colleges, wellbeing hubs, advocacy, etc.
Interface with secondary care — formally managed to safely support discharges to primary care and navigate those requiring more specialist care.
The contract is being modified to provide the introduction of an Integrated primary community care to support the mental health integration model as described at VII 2.2).
This contract is being modified in accordance with Reg 72.1.b of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The modification will extend by up to 39 months. The contracting authority is relying on Regulation 72 (1) ‘Contracts and framework agreements may be modified without a new procurement procedure in accordance with...(b) for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor that have become necessary and were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor... (ii) would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority... provided that any increase in process does not exceed 50 % of the value of the original contract.’
The original contract was subject to an OJEU contract notice and was awarded in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EC of the European Parliament of the Council. The increase in price will not exceed 50 % of the original contract of BGP 14 850 000.
This contract is being modified in accordance with Regulation 72 (1)(b) and (c) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The modification will extend the contract for IAPT and the IPCC for up to 39 months.
The Contracting Authority is relying on Regulation 72 (1) ‘Contracts and framework agreements may be modified without a new procurement procedure in accordance with... (b) for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor that have become necessary and were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor... (ii) would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority... provided that any increase in process does not exceed 50 % of the value of the original contract.’
Community mental health services have long played a crucial role in the delivery of mental health care, providing vital support to people with mental health problems closer to their homes and communities. However, the model of care is now in need of fundamental transformation and modernisation.
The ambition for the NHS LTP is to ‘establish new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care to support at least 370 000 adults and older adults per year who have severe mental illnesses by 2023/2024, so that they will have greater choice and control over their care, and be supported to live well in their communities.’


Winner: Vita Health Solutions Ltd