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Representations by providers must be submitted to the relevant authority via email to robert.kitt1@nhs.net (Ref:C335475) by midnight (23:59 hrs) on 21/02/25.\nThis contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an Intention to Award under the PSR.\nDecision maker: Deputy Chief Integration & Primary Care Officer and Director of Joint Commissioning, NHS Sussex ICB.\nNo conflicts of interest were declared.\nThe service evaluation was reviewed against the 5 key criteria:\n• Quality & Innovation\n• Value\n• Integration, collaboration & service sustainability\n• Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice\n• Social value\nThese were then weighted as follows:\nQuality and innovation (30%),\nValue (20%),\nIntegration, collaboration and service sustainability (20%), Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice (20%);\nSocial Value (10%).\nIn determining the weightings for each of the criteria, our primary focus was on ensuring that the evaluation process reflects the key priorities and objectives of the service.\nQuality & Innovation: Seeking a home-based supportive service for a vulnerable cohort of young people and their families\nValue: Value is based on achieving relative hospital avoidance and reduction in presentation to emergency services.\nIntegration, Collaboration, and Service Sustainability: Integration is based on the interoperability of the pathway and service with Dynamic Support Register, CAMHS, Children Services, Education.\nImproving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice: Improving access is based on the uptake of 'recovery' based opportunities, for example accessing education and care interventions. \nSocial Value: Social value is based on a service informed by participation and expert by experience of young people and their carers. \nThe existing provider was assessed against key criteria which were weighted according to importance in terms of service delivery and scored satisfactorily against the assessed criteria.", "initiationType": "tender", "tender": { "id": "C335475", "legalBasis": { "id": "32014L0024", "scheme": "CELEX" }, "title": "Keyworker Service East Sussex", "status": "complete", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85140000", "description": "Miscellaneous health services" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "description": "NHS Sussex ICB has implemented the national commitment that by 2023/24 autistic people and people with a learning disability up to the age of 25, with the most complex needs, will be allocated a designated keyworker.\nThe service provides a named keyworker for children, young people and adults up to 25 years old with a learning disability and or who are autistic, where there is a significant risk of hospital admission/s due to lack of alternative preventative support.\nThe NHS Sussex ICB review is being undertaken across all Keyworker services in Sussex to assess the current models (including current assessment of need, delivery of outcomes against criteria and best use of resources). 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