NHS Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent ICB Homeless Health Integrated Service

This Invitation to Tender provides information pertaining to the procurement of a Specialist Homeless Health Integrated Service. The purpose of this procurement is to secure a Service Provider to deliver a Specialist Homeless Health Integrated Service for service users within Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme.

The aim of this service is to co-ordinate care for the most vulnerable and complex people who are homeless including rough sleepers.

The aims of having a supported healthcare service embedded within wider rough sleeper related support services are:

• To maximise the benefits of a very scarce highly skilled clinical resource
• To minimise the communication steps and referral handoffs
• To provide a collaborative, whole systems approach to prevention, health assessment and intervention, that improve the overall health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

This service is aimed at individuals who are:

• aged 18 years and above AND
• who are sleeping rough or are considered homeless, within the boundaries of Stoke on Trent or Newcastle -under-Lyme, regardless of whether they are registered with a GP or not
• Have multiple complex needs i.e. 3 or more of the following: homelessness, mental-ill health, addiction, complex long term physical health conditions, offending

The CCGs are looking to appoint a Service Provider to deliver this Service for a period of 24 months with the option to extend for up to a further 24 months. The Contract will commence on the 1st April 2023.

The ICB have set an indicative affordability threshold of £200,000 per annum (full year effect) for the Procurement. The total indicative contract value for 24 months is £400,000 and if the optional extension of 24 months is utilised the value is £800,000. The CCGs reserve the right to reject Bids that are above the affordability envelope and reserve the right to seek clarification on bids that are unusually low with regards to the affordability threshold. This is an indicative threshold set to reflect the expected costs of providing the service specification and Bidders are encouraged to avoid exceeding the threshold.

Additional information:

Midlands and Lancashire CSU are conducting this procurement exercise as an agent for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.

The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

• (i)Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to reregister;
• (ii)Once registered, candidates must submit your reply on the website and by email by the deadline stated. For technical support in submitting your expression of interest contact the Bravo Solution Helpdesk on +448003684850 or E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk.

Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime Services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.