Future opportunity

0-19 Public Health Nursing Service & Healthy Child Programme

  • Bath and North East Somerset Council

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice reference: 2024/S 000-012495

Published 17 April 2024, 1:14pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Bath and North East Somerset Council

Guildhall, High Street

Bath

BA1 5AW

Contact

Harriet Andrew

Email

harriet_andrew@bathnes.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.bathnes.gov.uk

Buyer's address

http://www.bathnes.gov.uk

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

https://procontract.due-north.com

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

General public services


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

0-19 Public Health Nursing Service & Healthy Child Programme

Reference number

DN719555

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out a local authority’s statutory responsibility for commissioning public health services for children and young people aged 0 to 19 years.

Bath and North East Council is seeking to recommission the integrated 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service. The Service is primarily a preventative and early intervention service to deliver health care to families according to the Healthy Child Programme.

The Healthy Child Programme aims to bring together health, education and other main partners to deliver an effective programme for prevention and support and is available to all children, young people and their families from the antenatal period until 19 years of age (or up to 25 years of age where there are special education needs and/or disabilities and/or vulnerable groups) and works as part of a whole system approach that is universal in reach and personalised in its response.

We are proposing that the service provides the following universal, targeted and specialist support across Bath and North East Somerset:

• Health Visiting Service

• School Nursing Service

• National Child Measurement Programme

• Clinic in a Box (young person’s sexual health service)

• Family Nurse Partnership

The universal reach of the service provides an invaluable opportunity, early in a child's life, to identify families that need additional support and children who are at risk of poor outcomes and ensure these children have the best opportunity to maximise their development. We would like to consult on how the Service can achieve positive outcomes and work collaboratively with wider child health, education, early help and social care systems operating across Bath and North East Somerset.

The proposed contract length is for 4 years with +2-year extension option.

The contract will start in April 2025.

A market engagement event will take place on Thursday 9th May, 12.30 – 2pm, in Keynsham Civic Centre. Please could you confirm your interest in attending by emailing public_health@bathnes.gov.uk with details of your name, organisation, position, email and telephone number.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKK12 - Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out a local authority’s statutory responsibility for commissioning public health services for children and young people aged 0 to 19 years.

Bath and North East Council is seeking to recommission the integrated 0-19 Public Health Nursing Service. The Service is primarily a preventative and early intervention service to deliver health care to families according to the Healthy Child Programme.

The Healthy Child Programme aims to bring together health, education and other main partners to deliver an effective programme for prevention and support and is available to all children, young people and their families from the antenatal period until 19 years of age (or up to 25 years of age where there are special education needs and/or disabilities and/or vulnerable groups) and works as part of a whole system approach that is universal in reach and personalised in its response.

We are proposing that the service provides the following universal, targeted and specialist support across Bath and North East Somerset:

• Health Visiting Service

• School Nursing Service

• National Child Measurement Programme

• Clinic in a Box (young person’s sexual health service)

• Family Nurse Partnership

The universal reach of the service provides an invaluable opportunity, early in a child's life, to identify families that need additional support and children who are at risk of poor outcomes and ensure these children have the best opportunity to maximise their development. We would like to consult on how the Service can achieve positive outcomes and work collaboratively with wider child health, education, early help and social care systems operating across Bath and North East Somerset.

The proposed contract length is for 4 years with +2-year extension option.

The contract will start in April 2025.

A market engagement event will take place on Thursday 9th May, 12.30 – 2pm, in Keynsham Civic Centre. Please could you confirm your interest in attending by emailing public_health@bathnes.gov.uk with details of your name, organisation, position, email and telephone number.

two.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: £22,000,000

two.2.14) Additional information

The services are being procured under the Provider Selection Regime.

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

1 July 2024


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

This notice signals the intention to conduct an information gathering and market engagement exercise only. This notice does not constitute a call for competition in its own right. Publication of this notice and any responses to it does not commit the Authority or respondents to undertaking or participating in any future procurement process, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. The Authority will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise howsoever arising.