Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
Liverpool
UK
E-mail: mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net
NUTS: UKD7
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
Heron House
Stoke on Trent
ST4 4LG
UK
E-mail: mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net
NUTS: UKG2
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.midlandsandlancashirecsu.nhs.uk/
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
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
Children and Young People's Emotional Health and Wellbeing (Wirral Place)
Reference number: WHISP - 189
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85140000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Children and Young People's Emotional Health and Wellbeing in Wirral
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
5 298 132.00
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:
UKD6
UKD7
Main site or place of performance:
Across Wirral
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is working with NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB to commissioning a new model of Children's Emotional Health & Wellbeing provision in Wirral.
The Children's Emotional Health and Wellbeing Transformation project is a partnership project between Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council (WMBC) and Wirral Place ICB. The project is looking to bring emotional health and wellbeing services together to provide a single route to access support in Wirral, to make it easier for children and young people to get the support they need when they need it. The scope of this project is all services that support emotional health and wellbeing for 0-18s with a GP in Wirral and/or resident in Wirral.
This is planned to be in place from April 2024 onwards, and includes key functions such as a Single Point of Access, a digital platform, marketing and communications, as well as direct support services for children, young people and their parents/carers.
The contract term is five years plus the option to extend for a period of two years (5 + 2). The financial envelope for this tender is £756,876 per annum.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
5 298 132.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 84
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
30/10/2023
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 12 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
30/10/2023
Local time: 13:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
This contract is for services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations.
Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. This is not a call for tenders and the Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept any tender received and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for tenders should as consider necessary.
The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.
Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received during this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.
In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB
Liverpool
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
28/09/2023