NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Adults Mental Health Lot 3 Psychologically Informed Interventions

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) who are looking to undertake a multi-lot Competitive Process for the provision of Adult Mental Health Services (Lot 3 Psychologically Informed Interventions).

During 2023 and 2024 the community Mental Health Transformation programme has worked to coproduce an integrated model of support for people living with severe mental illness, develop pathways and articulate what interventions are required to support people to live well in their local communities. This work has informed what services are required as part of the model going forward.

The ICB is committed to providing stability to the sector and a model of services is being proposed, which will procure services It is the intention of the ICB to start commissioning contracts for the above services from 1st April 2025 for 3 years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years.

Lot 3 Psychologically Informed Interventions (Total Contract Value for 3 years with optional 2 year extension)

Lot 3a Blackpool £652,775

Lot 3b Blackburn with Darwen £685,830

Lot 3c South Cumbria £413,985

Lot 3d Lancashire East £1,245,490

Lot 3e Lancashire Central £1,200,300

Lot 3f Lancashire North £801,620

The ITT will be live on Monday 9th September 2024 on the Atamis Portal. The deadline for submission will be Monday 14th October 2024 12:00pm mid-day.

The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget. To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome .

There will be a maximum of 6 contracts totalling £1,000,000 annually. The overall maximum contract value for all 6 lots, including possible contract extensions is £5,000,000.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk The relevant reference number for this tender is C301065 and the questionnaires will be located within the requirements. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process. The ICB has set an affordability threshold for each lot. Bidders who submit a bid over the maximum contract values in the procurement documents, will not achieve the score of a pass. There isn't a competition on price.

The ICB may intend to procure Lot 4 Social Inclusion at a later date (timescales to be confirmed).

The competitive tendering process to which this ITT relates to and further to which the Authority intends to purchase the Services as set out in regulation 11 of the provider selection regime 2023 for the award of a contract with a competition.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Additional information: This ITT has been made available to all Bidders who have expressed a potential interest in delivering this service in line with the requirements which fall under Regulation 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services is being run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation in this ITT, and in the Find a Tender contract notice advertisement.

The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots:

Bidders are invited to bid for each lot separately. Bidders can bid for more than one lot. If a bidder is the highest scoring bidder and therefore named the successful bidder for more than one lot, this may result in contracts being amalgamated rather than separate contracts being issued.

The competitive tendering process to which this ITT relates to and further to which the Authority intends to purchase the Services as set out in regulation 11 of the provider selection regime 2023 for the award of a contract with a competition.

This ITT has been made available to all Bidders who have expressed a potential interest in delivering this service in line with the requirements which fall under Regulation 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services is being run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation in this ITT, and in the Find a Tender contract notice advertisement.

The Authority reserves the right to make changes to the process as it sees necessary whilst adhering to those sections of the Provider Selection Regime regulations which lay out the principles for the competitive tendering process. The Authority will ensure that Bidders are made aware, in reasonable time, of any changes it makes to the process. All changes will be communicated through the Procurement portal messaging system, Atamis.

The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the Competitive Process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.