NSCHT Multi-Lot Community Partnership Commissioning

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) have been working on behalf of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) who were looking to undertake a multi-lot Competitive Process for Community Partnership Commissioning, including:

Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service

Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service

Lot 3 Financial Wellbeing Service

It was the intention of the NSCHT to start commissioning contracts for the above services from 1st April 2025 for 3 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year, and possibly another year (5 years total).

Contract start date: 1st April 2025

Contract end date (including possible extensions): 31st March 2030

Please see below total contract values for 5 years:

• Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service - £580,000
• Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service - £1,800,000
• Lot 3 Financial Wellbeing Service - £200,000

The ITT was live on Thursday 14th November

2024 on the Atamis Portal. The deadline for submissions

will be Friday 13th December 2024 12:00pm midday.

Bidders who submitted a bid over the maximum

contract values, for each lot, were informed that they would not achieve the score of a pass. This was checked during the evaluation of the pass/fail questions in the Basic

Selection Envelope. There was also a further competition on price.

To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process,

bidder's were advised to register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing

portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

A maximum of 3 contracts totalling £516,000 annually were to be awarded. The overall maximum contract value for all 3 lots, including possible contract extensions was £2,580,000.

The relevant reference number for this tender was C318455.

Further details were made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.

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 was made available to all Bidders who have expressed a potential interest in delivering this services in line with the requirements for Health Services and mixed procurements which fall under Regulation 3 and 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

Bidders were invited to bid for each lot separately.

Bidders were able to bid for more than one lot.