CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Whole Systems Integrated Care.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

London Borough of Brent.

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The Whole Systems Integrated Care (WSIC) model provides functions and services that support the coordination and integration of care for adults with long term conditions. Patients are identified through the GP registered lists in Brent and the model operates out of Primary Care, organised around the relationship between the GP and their patient. The overarching objective is to keep vulnerable people well in the community. The provider of WSIC will be expected to undertake:

a) Risk stratification and case finding — from the GP registered lists (cross-referenced with partner caseloads).

b) Proactive care planning — care planning, goal setting, crisis planning and review for patients most at risk, in need or unstable.

c) Multidisciplinary case management — an enhanced mainstream care offer for care planned patients, with more intensive case management for a subset of this group as required.

d) Support to self-care:

I. Administration and use of a new patient activation measure — with results used to support the tailoring of care plans and care delivery;

II. Recruitment and piloting of Care Navigators working with GPs and colleagues to support patients and carers to access voluntary and community support in line with their self-care goals and care plan;

III. Staff training for GPs and colleagues in techniques such as Coaching for Health and Motivational Interviewing.

e) Development of multidisciplinary team working — alignment of team leaders from social care and district nursing. Inclusion of mental health and of voluntary and community sector representatives.

f) Weekly Complex Patient Management Groups (CPMG) — case management meetings hosted by each Network's Core Team with the participation of team leaders from Social Care and District Nursing.

g) Monthly Multidisciplinary Group meetings — hosted by and within each GP Network with the participation of individual GP practices, CPMG members and specialists as required.

h) Care Plan review — regular review and review in response to trigger events by the patient's own GP, with onward referral and case management as required.

i) Development of the operational management model — GP-led model of clinical supervision and governance; standard operating policies and procedures rolled out across Primary Care; management and analytics/information function with access to primary care data for shared quality monitoring and performance reporting.

j) Development of integrated health and social care data — production of a patient-level Integrated Care Record and use of this and other tools and dashboards produced by a new linked dataset with an agreed consent model led by the patients GP.

NHS Brent Clinical Commissioning Group (Brent CCG) has directly awarded the contract for WSIC service to the new partnership of the Brent GP Network Collaborative following its assessment of the provider as the most capable provider of the service in line with the NHS Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition Regulations 2013 and in light of Monitor's substantive guidance on those regulations.

Brent CCG is satisfied that the services to which the contract relates, will be most capably provided by that provider.

II.1.5)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

NHS Brent Clinical Commissioning Group (Brent CCG) has directly awarded the contract for WSIC service to the new partnership of the Brent GP Network Collaborative following its assessment of the provider as the most capable provider of the service in line with the NHS Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition Regulations 2013 and in light of Monitor's substantive guidance on those regulations.

Brent CCG is satisfied that the services to which the contract relates, will be most capably provided by that provider.

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX D

Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure
without prior call for competition