Sth Staffs Autistic Spectrum Condition - Children and Young People Diagnosis and Intervention Service

Cannock Chase; East Staffordshire; South East Staffordshire and Seisdon; and Stafford and Surrounds CCGs are looking to procure a children's and young people's autism service. The proposed service will provide an Autism Assessment and Intervention service that integrates with health, education and social care. The service will provide a diagnostic pathway for children and young people, aged 0-19, suspected of having Autism spectrum condition (ASC) and a range of interventions to children and young people, aged 0-19 with a confirmed diagnosis of autism and a range of interventions for young people aged 19-25 who have an Education Healthcare Plan with a primary diagnosis of autism.

The intended outcomes of this service include:

• To deliver a diagnosis to those who may present with ASC behavioural conditions and symptoms
• To provide post diagnosis support and interventions for children and young people with ASC.
• To provide a community focused model that promotes support within the community for people with ASC.
• To provide support and education to parents and carers to enable them to manage the child or young person's condition.
• Provide clear pathways and signposting to other local services.
• Provide an effective transitional pathway to assist young people (with ASC) transfer from children's to adults services.
• Ensure delivery of personalised care planning
• Focus on crisis contingency planning, working jointly with other relevant services where appropriate.

The Provider premises will be delivered in various locations across South Staffordshire that are easily accessible to local communities from main transport links. Services should comply with You're Welcome Standards. The Provider premises and reception facilities shall be child/young person friendly.

The proposed service will look at providing sufficiently flexible appointments to ensure that the Service Users have sufficient access to the services available at times that suit them.

Commissioners wish to commission the service on a block contract basis with a maximum block contract value of £1,509,329 per annum throughout contract duration inclusive of all costs and taxes.

Candidates wishing to participate must register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk(registration and use of the website is free of charge) and access the tender documents. If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register.

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There is one ITT relevant to this procurement, namely ITT 634. Bidders Should ensure that they are able to access this project.

Some documents relating to this procurement are password protected and candidates wishing to access should please send a request through the Bravo messaging portal. The service will be for three years with a possible up to two year extension.

OJEU Notice reference 2019/S 189-459900

Additional information: Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement 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.

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

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the Contracting Authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.

This tender will be operated via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.

Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.

Details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.

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. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in Annex 1 and Annex 7.