NLFC – Coproduction and Development of Lived Experience Roles

Procurement reference

C372880

Procurement 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.

Main category

Services

Delivery regions

• UKI43 - Haringey and Islington
• UKI54 - Enfield
• UKI71 - Barnet

Total value (estimated)

200000.00 GBP Excluding VAT

240000.00 GBP Including VAT

Contract dates (estimated)

27 October 2025, 00:00AM to 26 April 2027, 23:59PM

Extension end date (if all the extensions are used): 26 October 2028

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Is the total value above threshold?

Above threshold

CPV classifications

• 80510000 - Specialist training services
• 79633000 - Staff development services

Delivery regions

• UKI43 - Haringey and Islington
• UKI54 - Enfield
• UKI71 - Barnet

Sustainability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)

Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Contract start date (estimated)

27 October 2025, 00:00AM

Contract end date (estimated)

26 April 2027, 23:59PM

Extension end date (estimated)

26 October 2028, 23:59PM

Can the contract be extended?

Yes

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

Due date

22 July 2025, 23:59PM

Has the engagement period already ended?

No

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

08 August 2025