PRJ-806 - Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) and/or Maternity Peer Support Service

NHS Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's) wish to

commission a provider to deliver our Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP). MVP's give women and their families

the opportunity to feedback on their recent maternity experience and to influence service changes in local

maternity services through direct partnership working. NHS Newham and Tower Hamlets CCG's also wish to

commission a maternity peer support service that recruits, trains and matches up volunteer peer supporters,

who provide practical and emotional support to vulnerable women during pregnancy, birth and the early weeks

of motherhood. A Bidders Event will be held week commencing the 13th of May 2019. Bidders will be informed

of the date, time and location . Requests to participate must be submitted electronically

via: https://procontract.due-north.com/Login

Tower Hamlets and Newham, Women's Health and Family Services have been commissioned to provide the "Maternity Mates" project. This project recruits, trains and matches up volunteer peer supporters, or 'Maternity Mates', who provide practical and emotional support to vulnerable women during pregnancy, birth and the early weeks of motherhood.

Because the contracts for these services are coming to an end, we now have to go out to the market to invite the existing and any new and interested providers to bid for new contracts. As our CCG's have historically commissioned similar services from the same providers we are now formalising these joint commissioning arrangements. We expect that this approach will provide joined up services working more closely with our one shared hospital trust, Barts Health NHS Trust. We also think this approach will enable us to commission a model that meets the needs of women and families, particularly our very mobile population and women who live, work and use services right across our patch.

We would like to hear from local women and their families and healthcare providers and professionals in the field to share their thoughts on these existing services. We also want to hear what you want to see in future so that we can ensure that the commissioned services best meet the needs of our local communities. Please complete this anonymous survey that should take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Please also share this with anyone else you think may be interested in completing this survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BDWZCPQ

The procurement will be advertised via OJEU and Contract Finder,providers may bid for one or both of these contracts

Additional information: The services are covered by the Light Touch Regime are set out at Schedule 3 (Social and Other Specific Services) of PCR 2015. If the value of the Contract is over 615, 000 GBP the Contracting Authority must advertise it in the OJEU, although there is flexibility as to the design of the remainder of the Procurement Process the Commissioner is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure that the Commissioner is following is as set out in the Invitation to Tender. The Process will be similar to Open Procedure process under the Regulations but, for avoidance of doubt, the commissioner is not running the Process as though the Open Procedure under the Regulations applies and so reserves the right to depart from that procedure at any point. The procurement will be advertised via OJEU and Contract Finder.

We would like to hear from local women and their families and healthcare providers and professionals in the field to share their thoughts on these existing services. We also want to hear what you want to see in future so that we can ensure that the commissioned services best meet the needs of our local communities. Please complete this anonymous survey that should take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Please also share this with anyone else you think may be interested in completing this survey; https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BDWZCPQ

The contract period will be for 3 years from an estimated start date of 1st October 2019 (Maternity Peer Support Service) and 1st November 2019 (Maternity Voices Partnership) with option to extend up to further 24 months each. This will be dependent on performance and availability of funding. We will work to ensure there is a smooth transition during this period for local women and their families. Newham CCG would be leading on Maternity Peer Support Service and Tower Hamlets CCG would lead on the Maternity Voices Partnership contract.

Maternity Voices Partnership over possible 5year contract is £100,000 each CCG (Newham CCG, Tower Hamlets CCG, Waltham Forest CCG). Total of £300,000

Maternity Peer Support Service: £325,000 over the 5 year contract for NHS Tower Hamlets CCG and £425,000 over 5 years for NHS Newham CCG . Total £750,000

All these values are inclusive of VAT. There will be two block contracts covering this requirement. Providers may bid for one or both of these contracts.

Maternity Voices Partnership contract is commissioned by Newham CCG, Tower Hamlets CCG, and Waltham Forest CCG, and the Maternity Peer Support Service contract is commissioned by NHS Tower Hamlets CCG, Newham CCG.