Contract

The Provision of Block Booking Beds for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

  • Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-029722

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-049b96

Published 17 September 2024, 3:10pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Room 170, Penn Lloyd Building, County Hall

Glenfield, Leicester

LE38RA

Contact

Jevgenija Zulfugarova

Email

jevgenija.zulfugarova@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKF22 - Leicestershire CC and Rutland

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Partnership

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

Health


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

The Provision of Block Booking Beds for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85110000 - Hospital and related services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Due to a temporary closure of some mental health beds within Leicestershire Partnership Trust we are looking to contract 5 acute mental health beds from another provider within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

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

Lowest offer: £274,000 / Highest offer: £300,000 taken into consideration

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKF22 - Leicestershire CC and Rutland

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

The trust has determined that whilst some urgent renovation work to our inpatient mental health estate is undertaken and completed, 5 additional acute mental health beds need to be contracted for a period of 3 months. This will support the trust in being able to admit patients who require an acute mental health bed and will also support with the trust being able to step patients down from our psychiatric intensive care unit to improve flow across our entire bed base.

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health programme expressed the ambition to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements for non-specialist acute care by 2021. To ensure that the trust continues to deliver on this ambition set by NHS England, the provider of these 5 beds needs to be within the geographical boundary of Leicestershire and Rutland so that patients remain in their local area and therefore allowing the maintaining of relationships with family, carers and friends.as part of delivering on this ambition. NHS providers and commissioners are required to report the use of non-specialist services acute care via the Mental Health Specialist Data Set (MHSDS).

In identifying a suitable provider, the practice within the trust which has been agreed and established through the trusts Bed Management Standard Operating Procedure states when considering the use of additional beds the trust will only place patients in providers with a latest CQC rating of "Good".

This notice is an intention to award a contract under the most suitable provider process; and the contract value is (estimated) £300,000.00

This is a new contract and new provider

The contract will be in place for 3 months September - December 2025

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Most Suitable provider process with regard to key criteria / Weighting: 100

Quality criterion - Name: Most Suitable provider process with regard to key criteria / Weighting: 100

Price - Weighting: 0

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:

This is a PSR intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services PSR Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provision of PCR2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 27th September 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR

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

The Provision of Block Booking Beds for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

17 September 2024

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

RUSHCLIFFE INDEPENDENT HOSPITALS (KEGWORTH) LIMITED

Mill Lodge Hospital Mill Lane Kegworth DE74 2EJ

Kegworth

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKF2 - Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
Companies House

Companies House

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: £300,000

Lowest offer: £274,000 / Highest offer: £300,000 taken into consideration


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

This is a Provider Selection Regime PSR intention to award notice .The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services(PSR)Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provision of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 27th of September 2024.

No conflict of interest identified among contracting authority and supplier.

The trust has determined that whilst some urgent renovation work to our inpatient mental health estate is undertaken and completed, 5 additional acute mental health beds need to be contracted for a period of 3 months. This will support the trust in being able to admit patients who require an acute mental health bed and will also support with the trust being able to step patients down from our psychiatric intensive care unit to improve flow across our entire bed base.

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health programme expressed the ambition to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements for non-specialist acute care by 2021. To ensure that the trust continues to deliver on this ambition set by NHS England, the provider of these 5 beds needs to be within the geographical boundary of Leicestershire and Rutland so that patients remain in their local area and therefore allowing the maintaining of relationships with family, carers and friends.as part of delivering on this ambition. NHS providers and commissioners are required to report the use of non-specialist services acute care via the Mental Health Specialist Data Set (MHSDS).

In identifying a suitable provider, the practice within the trust which has been agreed and established through the trusts Bed Management Standard Operating Procedure states when considering the use of additional beds the trust will only place patients in providers with a latest CQC rating of "Good".

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Leicester

Leicester

Email

jevgenija.zulfugarova@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom