Social and other specific services – public contracts
Prior information notice - This notice is a call for competition
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board
QNX
Wicker House, High Street
Worthing
BN11 1DJ
UK
Contact person: Sarah Rix
E-mail: sarah.rix1@nhs.net
NUTS: UKJ2
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Dementia Post Diagnostic Support Service - NHS/SOEPS/21.826 - PINCC
Reference number: NHS/SOEPS/21.826 - PINCC
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
This notice is to inform the market of the intention to directly award 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council for the provision of Dementia Post Diagnostic Support in East Sussex and the Alzheimer's Society in West Sussex and Brighton & Hove, for NHS Sussex ('the Integrated Care Board') commencing 1st April 2023 for a period of 24 months.
NHS Sussex intends to directly award these 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council and the Alzheimer's Society to ensure key organisational change and transformation objectives, including the development of equitable Sussex wide approaches to service delivery, are delivered. This will include the development of convergent standards and performance metrics, benchmarking of investment based on population needs, evident Health Inequalities and will be informed by population health clinical intelligence.
This will provide the necessary additional time for NHS Sussex to complete and embed its necessary transformation work and to understand better and accurately specify future specifications for these services. This will then inform commissioning intentions which will be put to the market in 2024.
The proposed direct award decisions have been made on a strategic and clinical basis, in the context of meeting patient need and improving service equity at a time of significant national and local strategic service delivery transformation.
Contract value for East Sussex County Council (covers East Sussex) = £1,569,688 over the two year period.
Contract value for Alzheimer's Society = £1,104,118 over the two year period (covers West Sussex) & £212,000 over the two year period (covers Brighton & Hove) = Total value £1,316,118
If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 12th December, 2022.
If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent providers relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication.
Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by an other route will not be responded to).
National strategy dictates that health care systems ensure that people living with dementia are supported to live at home with their families for as long as possible. Early diagnosis and intervention, advance care planning, timely access to specialist assessment and treatment, and effective support for carers are key components of good care. Post diagnosis support services are the cornerstone to ensuring that people living with dementia and those that care for them are supported throughout their dementia journey.
The services provide emotional support, practical facilitation, access to wellbeing interventions, guidance and information. Working with Primary Care, they support identification of issues leading to deterioration and provide Care Coordination and Advanced Care Planning. Service provision includes, Early Onset Dementia, complex, challenging and end of life/bereavement support. The services work alongside Memory Assessment Service provision to support virtual diagnostic assessment.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
2 885 806.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKJ
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
This notice is to inform the market of the intention to directly award 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council for the provision of Dementia Post Diagnostic Support in East Sussex and the Alzheimer's Society in West Sussex and Brighton & Hove, for NHS Sussex ('the Integrated Care Board') commencing 1st April 2023 for a period of 24 months.
NHS Sussex intends to directly award these 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council and the Alzheimer's Society to ensure key organisational change and transformation objectives, including the development of equitable Sussex wide approaches to service delivery, are delivered. This will include the development of convergent standards and performance metrics, benchmarking of investment based on population needs, evident Health Inequalities and will be informed by population health clinical intelligence.
This will provide the necessary additional time for NHS Sussex to complete and embed its necessary transformation work and to understand better and accurately specify future specifications for these services. This will then inform commissioning intentions which will be put to the market in 2024.
The proposed direct award decisions have been made on a strategic and clinical basis, in the context of meeting patient need and improving service equity at a time of significant national and local strategic service delivery transformation.
Contract value for East Sussex County Council (covers East Sussex) = £1,569,688 over the two year period.
Contract value for Alzheimer's Society = £1,104,118 over the two year period (covers West Sussex) & £212,000 over the two year period (covers Brighton & Hove) = Total value £1,316,118
If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 12th December, 2022.
If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent providers relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication.
Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by an other route will not be responded to).
National strategy dictates that health care systems ensure that people living with dementia are supported to live at home with their families for as long as possible. Early diagnosis and intervention, advance care planning, timely access to specialist assessment and treatment, and effective support for carers are key components of good care. Post diagnosis support services are the cornerstone to ensuring that people living with dementia and those that care for them are supported throughout their dementia journey.
The services provide emotional support, practical facilitation, access to wellbeing interventions, guidance and information. Working with Primary Care, they support identification of issues leading to deterioration and provide Care Coordination and Advanced Care Planning. Service provision includes, Early Onset Dementia, complex, challenging and end of life/bereavement support. The services work alongside Memory Assessment Service provision to support virtual diagnostic assessment.
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
2 885 806.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 24
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Commencing 1st April 2023 for a period of 24 months.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest
Date:
12/12/2022
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.5) Scheduled date for start of award procedures
13/12/2022
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
NHS South of England Procurement
Fareham
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
11/11/2022