Summary

OCID:

Published by:

NEL Commissioning Support Unit

Authority ID:

AA65852

Publication date:

11 November 2019

Deadline date:

-

Notice type:

Contract Award Notice

Has documents:

No

Has SPD:

No

Has Carbon Reduction Plan:

N/A

Abstract

NHS Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) are responsible for commissioning high quality, responsive and professional services that meet the needs of our local population.

As part of local maternity service provision, the CCGs commissioned a local service, social action for health, to provide our maternity voices partnerships. These partnerships give women and their families the opportunity to feedback on their recent maternity experiences and also to influence service changes in local maternity services through direct partnership working with local maternity providers and commissioners. Additionally in Tower Hamlets and Newham, Women’s Health and Family Services have been commissioned to provide the ‘Maternity Mates’ project. This project recruits, trains and matches up volunteer peer supporters, or ‘Maternity Mates’, who provide practical and emotional support to vulnerable women during pregnancy, birth and the early weeks of motherhood.

Because the contracts for these services are coming to an end, we now have to go out to the market to invite the existing and any new and interested providers to bid for new contracts. As our CCG’s have historically commissioned similar services from the same providers we are now formalising these joint commissioning arrangements. We expect that this approach will provide joined up services working more closely with our one shared hospital trust, Barts Health NHS Trust. We also think this approach will enable us to commission a model that meets the needs of women and families, particularly our very mobile population and women who live, work and use services right across our patch.

We would like to hear from local women and their families and healthcare providers and professionals in the field to share their thoughts on these existing services. We also want to hear what you want to see in future so that we can ensure that the commissioned services best meet the needs of our local communities. Please complete this anonymous survey that should take you no longer than 10 minutes to complete. Please also share this with anyone else you think may be interested in completing this survey; https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BDWZCPQ

The contract period will be for 3 years from an estimated start date of 1.10.2019 (maternity peer support service) and 1.11.2019 (maternity voices partnership) with option to extend up to further 24 months each. This will be dependent on performance and availability of funding. We will work to ensure there is a smooth transition during this period for local women and their families.

Maternity Voices Partnership over possible 5 year contract is 100 000 GBP each CCG (Newham CCG, Tower Hamlets CCG, Waltham Forest CCG). Total of 300 000 GBP.

Maternity peer support service: 325 000 GBP over the 5 year contract for NHS Tower Hamlets CCG and 425 000 GBP over 5 years for NHS Newham CCG. Total 750 000 GBP.

All these values are inclusive of VAT. There will be 2 block contracts covering this requirement. Providers may bid for one or both of these contracts.

Maternity voices partnership contract is commissioned by Newham CCG, Tower Hamlets CCG, and Waltham Forest CCG, and the Maternity peer support service contract is commissioned by NHS Tower Hamlets CCG, Newham CCG.