Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-01-21
Buyer: NHS South Tyneside CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 79430000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 379325 GBP

Technical requirements: North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service hosted by NHS England and is managing this expression for interest exercise (EOI) for and on behalf of South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group. The proposed service aims to provide an additional non clinical response to people who identify as being in a mental health crisis, but where a medical response is not required.
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group to identify if there are any potential providers that could provide Crisis Service within South Tyneside and Sunderland.
The service will be commissioned as an integral part of the current mental health system, helping individuals address non-medical crisis situations via a range of peer support and community based activities.
The support offered via the specification will help to reduce demand in primary and secondary care locations, by providing support after the need for a non-medical response has been confirmed and help reduce long term access to services by improving self-reliance.
Whilst there is existing crisis provision in both South Tyneside and Sunderland, the ‘South Tyneside and Sunderland Crisis Service (the Service) seeks to provide an additional non clinical response to people who identify as being in a mental health crisis, but where a medical response is not required.
— to reduce demand on statutory urgent care resources, including repeat access, by building resilience and asset based capacity of people worked with to self-manage,
— improve the proportion of people who have a plan to improve their mental health and emotional resilience,
— to deliver the services in close collaboration with NTW to ensure a safe and seamless experience for service users.
The full service specification (Schedule 2, Annex 2) will be available on the In-Tend portal so that interested providers can read in more detail the full list of service requirements.
If your organisation would like to register an interest in responding to this opportunity please register on the in-tend portal at:
Should you have any queries, or are having problems registering on the portal, you should contact the Helpdesk contact information support@in-tend.com or by tel. 0844 2728810
Please note that this exercise is not part of any pre-qualification process. It is intended as an awareness, communication and information gathering exercise offering an opportunity for provider organisations to help inform potential future service models and/or commissioning intentions.
This procurement expression of interest is being administrated on In-Tend and interested suppliers must record an interest in this notice on In-Tend to obtain further information. Interest recorded in myTenders to obtain further information for this notice will not be considered.
Expressions of Interest in delivering this service for 12 months must be received in writing via the messages function in In-Tend portal. Expressions of interest will not be accepted by any other means.


Award value: 379325