Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Steelhouse Lane
Birmingham
B4 6NH
Contact
Kimberley Walker
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKG - West Midlands (England)
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
one.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address
Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
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
Eating Disorder Services; Day Care and Intensive Support at Home
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85111500 - Psychiatric hospital services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU on behalf of Birmingham Women and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, as Lead Provider of the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (https://toucanwestmids.nhs.uk/), are seeking suitably qualified and experienced providers for the provision of:
1) Eating Disorder Day Care Services; a unit attached to a current inpatient facility and a standalone Eating Disorder Day Care Service, and,
2) Eating Disorder Intensive Support at Homes (ED-ISH) Services.
Contract Length is expected to be a maximum of 2 years, in line with the Lead Provider contract commissioned by NHSE.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £7,674,778
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: Yes
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Basic Selection Criteria
Lot No
Qualification
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 85111500 - Psychiatric hospital services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKG - West Midlands (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Basic Selection Criteria for Eating Disorder Services; Day Care and Intensive Support at Home
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
two.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £1
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start date
1 April 2025
End date
31 March 2027
This contract is subject to renewal
No
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
two.2.14) Additional information
Any award of contract for this requirement is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider
Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply. In addition, neither the placement of this
notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to the award of any contract.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Key Criteria - Lot 1 Eating Disorder Services; Day Care
Lot No
1a
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 85111500 - Psychiatric hospital services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKG - West Midlands (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
WMCPC intends to commission Eating Disorder day care provision for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18).
The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services.
The indicative services aims are to:
• Support young people with a diagnosed Eating Disorder to receive timely and effective care
in the least restrictive environment
• Reduce inpatient admissions to Specialist Eating Disorder Units (and/or reduce lengths of
stay for those already admitted)
• Provide an alternative, sustainable model to inpatient care as described within NHSE’s
draft commissioning guidance for children and young people’s intensive mental health
services.
• Provide specialist eating disorder interventions on an outpatient basis
• Be NICE Guideline (NG69) compliant
• Provide a treatment option for the young person where there may be reluctance for
inpatient admission and/or they require a more structured treatment approach to interventions than can be achieved within a current community setting.
The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements (these may
be subject to amendment due to concurrent development work):
• Service model should focus on highly structured programme of day care provision, with range of evidence based therapeutic treatment approaches, supplemented with educational support to maintain a structured environment for the young person
• Interventions should be tailored to meet young person’s needs at time of assessment as
well as support to family/carer.
• Service should be operational seven days per week 8am-8pm.
• Service should be committed to principles of least restrictive practice
• Service should have capacity to provide day service places up to 8 young people at any one time
This is a new service model for Children and Young People’s Intensive Mental Health
Services (CYPIMHS), as such, the successful Provider is expected to be fully operational,
providing services ideally from 1st January 2025, but at the latest from 1st April 2025.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
two.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £3,654,622
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start date
1 April 2025
End date
31 March 2027
This contract is subject to renewal
No
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
two.2.14) Additional information
Any award of contract for this requirement is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider
Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply. In addition, neither the placement of this
notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to the award of any contract.
two.2) Description
two.2.1) Title
Key Criteria - Lot 2 Eating Disorder Intensive Support at Home (ED-ISH)
Lot No
2
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 85111500 - Psychiatric hospital services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKG - West Midlands (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
WMCPC intends to commission Eating Disorder Intensive Home Support provision for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18) who require intensive mental health treatment to support discharge and step down from hospital.
The first 12 months of provision will focus on step down’s from Specialist Eating Disorder Units whilst developing the admission avoidance element to be operational from year 2.
The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services.
The indicative services aims are to:
• Support young people to receive timely and effective care in the least restrictive environment
• To enable re-feeding including NG feeding to be undertaken at home.
• Reduce lengths of stay within a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit
• Provide time-limited intensive intervention within the young person’s home environment
• Be NICE Guideline (NG69) compliant
• Work alongside existing Community Eating Disorder Services, providing higher level of expertise and intensive intervention.
The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements (these may be subject to amendment due to concurrent development work):
• Service should focus on intensive support within the young person’s home environment, with a range of therapeutic, evidence based treatment approaches deployed
• Interventions should be tailored to meet individual young person’s and their family’s needs at time of assessment
• Service should be operational seven days per week and provide support as appropriate into the young person’s home and/or school setting, with the accepted young people having intervention(s) up to four times daily (as determined appropriate at time of assessment and formulated within their care plan
• Most interventions from the ED-ISH should aim for around 14 weeks of input, though length of time input required should be based on clinical need
• The ED-ISH should provide a highly structured programme of intensive support that combines education, therapy and support with meal times and meal planning.
• ED-ISH should also consider support to parents/carers and families of the young person, which may be undertaken separately to the intervention with the young person.
• The service should have capacity to provide intensive input up to four times daily for at least 14 weeks to between 5 and 8 young people at one time.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
two.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £4,020,156
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start date
1 April 2025
End date
31 March 2027
This contract is subject to renewal
No
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
two.2.14) Additional information
Any award of contract for this requirement is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply. In addition, neither the placement of this notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to the award of any contract.
Section three. Legal, economic, financial and technical information
three.1) Conditions for participation
three.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
List and brief description of conditions
The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to
provide mental health services.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date
15 January 2025
Local time
5:00pm
four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
four.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 4 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
four.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date
26 November 2024
Local time
10:00am
Section six. Complementary information
six.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: Yes
six.3) Additional information
WMCPC intends to commission:
Lot 1) Eating Disorder Day Care Services for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18).
The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services.
The indicative service aims are to:
• Support young people with a diagnosed Eating Disorder to receive timely and effective care in the least restrictive environment
• Reduce inpatient admissions to Specialist Eating Disorder Units (and/or reduce lengths of stay for those already admitted)
• Provide an alternative, sustainable model to inpatient care as described within NHSE’s draft commissioning guidance for children and young people’s intensive mental health
services.
• Provide specialist eating disorder interventions on an outpatient basis
• Be NICE Guideline (NG69) compliant
• Provide a treatment option for the young person where there may be reluctance for inpatient admission and/or they require a more structured treatment approach to interventions than can be achieved within a current community setting.
The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements (these may
be subject to amendment due to concurrent development work)
• Service model should focus on highly structured programme of day care provision, with range of evidence based therapeutic treatment approaches, supplemented with educational
support to maintain a structured environment for the young person
• Interventions should be tailored to meet young person’s needs at time of assessment as well as support to family/carer.
• Service should be operational seven days per week 8am-8pm.
• Service should be committed to principles of least restrictive practice
• Service should have capacity to provide day service places up to 8 young people at any one time
This is a new service model for Children and Young People’s Intensive Mental Health Services (CYPIMHS), as such, the successful Provider is expected to be fully operational, providing services ideally from 1st January 2025, but at the latest from 1st April 2025.
Lot 2) Eating Disorder Intensive at Home (ED-ISH) Support for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18) who require intensive mental health treatment to support discharge and step down from hospital.
The first 12 months of provision will focus on step down’s from Specialist Eating Disorder Units whilst developing the admission avoidance element to be operational from year 2.
The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services.
The indicative services aims are to:
• Support young people to receive timely and effective care in the least restrictive environment
• To enable re-feeding including NG feeding to be undertaken at home.
• Reduce lengths of stay within a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit
• Provide time-limited intensive intervention within the young person’s home environment
• Be NICE Guideline (NG69) compliant
• Work alongside existing Community Eating Disorder Services, providing higher level of expertise and intensive intervention.
The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements (these may be subject to amendment due to concurrent development work):
• Service should focus on intensive support within the young person’s home environment, with a range of therapeutic, evidence based treatment approaches deployed
• Interventions should be tailored to meet individual young person’s and their family’s needs at time of assessment
• Service should be operational seven days per week and provide support as appropriate into the young person’s home and/or school setting, with the accepted young people having
intervention(s) up to four times daily (as determined appropriate at time of assessment and formulated within their care plan
• Most interventions from the ED-ISH should aim for around 14 weeks of input, though length of time input required should be based on clinical need
• The ED-ISH should provide a highly structured programme of intensive support that combines education, therapy and support with meal times and meal planning.
• ED-ISH should also consider support to parents/carers and families of the young person, which may be undertaken separately to the intervention with the young person.
• The service should have capacity to provide intensive input up to four times daily for at least 14 weeks to between 5 and 8 young people at one time.
Any award of contract for this requirement is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider
Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply. In addition, neither the placement of this
notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to the award of any contract.
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
The High Court
The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
Country
United Kingdom