Scope
Reference
Atamis Contract reference: C372880
Description
The NLFC will be publishing the Co-production and User Involvement Strategy in September 2025, which reaffirms the Commissioning Hub's commitment to working in partnership with people who use services, their families, and carers. This strategy ensures that they will be able to meaningfully contribute and influence the way services are shaped, delivered and quality assured. To achieve this, the Commissioning Hub is keen to build on its existing co-production and user involvement model, which includes: Peer Engagement Workers (PEW): Six peers with lived experience recruited into paid positions to work alongside clinical quality managers in quality assurance roles, which includes one peer with a learning disability (Appendix JD) The NLFC Patient Council: A patient council comprised of 12 members, with representatives from all the inpatient providers, established to co-create and co-deliver system wide quality improvement and service development initiatives. Community Connectors: A group of community forensic service users, with representation from each of the SCFT's, established to co commission provision delivered by VCFSE providers though the NLFC VCFSE Grants and Access to Employment programmes The NLFC is committed to sustaining and strengthening its co-production and user involvement model. To support this, the Commissioning Hub will commission a third-sector provider with expertise in co-production and in developing people with lived experience in forensic mental health. The provider will maintain the existing model while expanding it through new roles for people with a learning disability and autistic people, and further enhance it through providing co-production leadership and the delivery of training to support meaningful involvement across all stages of commissioning and governance.
Total value (estimated)
- £200,000 excluding VAT
- £240,000 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Contract dates (estimated)
- 27 October 2025 to 26 April 2027
- Possible extension to 26 October 2028
- 3 years
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 80510000 - Specialist training services
- 79633000 - Staff development services
Contract locations
- UKI43 - Haringey and Islington
- UKI54 - Enfield
- UKI71 - Barnet
Engagement
Engagement deadline
22 July 2025
Engagement process description
This pre-procurement exercise will allow NLFT to engage directly and collaboratively with potential providers to: • Aid with procurement process design. • Determine the level of provider interest. • Help enable providers to participate in the process. • Inform development of service specification/s and collaborative service delivery options. • Help shape the commissioning and contracting process. Initial market briefing event will be held virtually at the following date and time: Date: 22nd July 2025 Time: 14:00am - 15:30pm To access the opportunity, please register via the eTendering portal Atamis: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome Contract reference: C372880
Participation
Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Submission
Publication date of tender notice (estimated)
8 August 2025
Contracting authority
North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PHMP-5392-DVTW
St Pancras Hospital, 4 St Pancras Way, London
London
NW1 0PE
United Kingdom
Contact name: Dominic Caddle
Email: procurement@nelft.nhs.uk
Region: UKI31 - Camden and City of London
Organisation type: Public authority - central government
Other organisation
These organisations are carrying out the procurement, or part of it, on behalf of the contracting authorities.
North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Summary of their role in this procurement: Providing Procurement Shared Service to NLFT by way of issuing Procurement exercise.
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PHHT-9556-BWJJ
CEME Centre - West Wing, Marsh Way
Essex
RM13 8GQ
United Kingdom
Region: UKI52 - Barking & Dagenham and Havering