Contract

LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-016261

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6

Published 23 May 2024, 9:08am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

1 Lakeside 920, Centre Park Square

Warrington

WA11QY

Contact

Anna Roberts

Email

anna.roberts@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKD61 - Warrington

NHS Organisation Data Service

QYG

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Health


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85100000 - Health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The service is delivered via a partnership arrangement that is called the Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative that includes a collaboration of partners:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust,

Cheshire Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Elysium Healthcare.

The service will:

• Support the development of the clinical and operational infrastructure for a forensic community service for people with LDA aged 16+,

• Provide specialist intervention to service users and their families and provide added value through the dissemination of forensic expertise and knowledge across multiple stakeholders,

• Support and facilitate the timely discharge of people who have complex needs from secure settings,

• Provide an assertive in reach model, working with existing in-patient teams and community stakeholders, to support safe and timely discharge from secure care,

• Support, where indicated, a planned transition to mainstream services (12 -18months). This should include specialist risk assessment, monitoring and clinical treatment/therapy in community settings,

• Prevent hospital admission and support the gate-keeping process,

• Provide advice training and consultation to the wider health, social care and criminal justice services to support the principle of hospital avoidance,

• Will support the assessment and contribute to the development of interventions and follow-up for individuals with offending behaviour,

• Will offer specialist advice to the wider system to assist in in determining whether someone should have care and treatment within the community.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £1,600,000

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKD6 - Cheshire
  • UKD7 - Merseyside

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has directly awarded a contract via a contract modification for Learning Disability and/or Autism Secure Community Forensic Service.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below

  • The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations

Explanation:

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations

Explanation:

- Additional deliveries by by the original supplier

This is a Contract Award Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015('Regulations') as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations.

Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015 Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication.

General grounds

(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:

b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:

(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No


Section five. Award of contract

Title

LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

19 September 2023

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 1

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

V7 Building, Kings Business Park

Prescot

L34 1PJ

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKD7 - Merseyside
NHS Organisation Data Service

RW4

Internet address

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/

The contractor is an SME

No

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £1,600,000

Total value of the contract/lot: £1,600,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

No 1 Lakeside

920 Centre Park Square

WA1 1QY

Country

United Kingdom