Official UK procurement notice
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)
Authority: North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has created a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) and invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to qualify for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Whilst there are no specified lots, interested organisations will be required to indicate their area(s) of expertise as part of the qualification process, this will form the basis of shortlisting bidders in future for specified requirements under the DPS.
The DPS went live in February 2023 and shall be live for a period of 5 years from this date. The NHS Standard Terms and Conditions shall apply.
The purpose of issuing a new Contract Notice is to Inform the market of the re-opening of the DPS for qualification.
Previous notice reference 2022/S 000-017401.
CPV: Community health services · Health and social work services · Health services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) has created a dynamic…Published value£5,000,000
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) has created a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) and invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to qualify for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
The purpose of issuing a new Contract Notice is to Inform the market of the re-opening of the DPS for qualification.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) is committed to delivering high quality mental health care to the Children and Young People (CYP) of North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, in line with the NHS Five Year Forward View, Integrated Care System Partnership working, the NHS Long Term Plan and intelligence around the needs of the local population. It is recognised that some CYP are more vulnerable and
susceptible to poor mental ill health. There are estimated to be around 10,400 CYP in Staffordshire and 3,700 in Stoke-on-Trent aged 5-16 with a mental health disorder.
The DPS provides for a full range of different Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services covering the areas of North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The DPS offers different delivery modalities including face to face, digital and a blended approach.
This DPS service specification (Stage 1) seeks to provide an overview of the future scope of the DPS for qualification purposes. NSCHT aims to use the DPS to procure CAMHS services that will enhance existing delivery and work intuitively with the Trust's provision.
All future service specifications and provision under the DPS (Stage 2) will be expected to:
- Operate across the 0-25-year spectrum, in line with detailed specification requirements, most of the activity is expected to be within the 0-18-year spectrum.
- Take a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach to care and support for service users, as appropriate.
- Take a strengths-based and trauma informed approach to care/support that has an outcome focus.
- Use agreed and appropriate outcome measure tools.
- Provide timely, high quality and accessible services for children and young people and their families/carers.
Whilst there will not be specified lots, interested organisations will be required to indicate their area(s) of expertise and delivery modalities as part of the qualification process. This will form the basis of shortlisting bidders in future for specified requirements under the DPS (stage 2).
The DPS went live February 2023 and shall be live for a period of 5 years from this date. The DPS shall remain open over this period for new organisations to complete the registration process and join. Once appointed all eligible/capable providers shall be invited into requests for quotations as and when requirements become available. NHS Standard Terms and Conditions shall apply.
The DPS shall remain open to reasonable modification for innovative practices being introduced by bidders and changes within the healthcare system throughout the life of the DPS.
Applicants should register there interest to join the DPS via the MLCSU Atamis eTendering System atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Dynamic Purchasing…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Health and social work services (CPV 85) in West Midlands, and who usually turns up
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Across this market, small firms won 71% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 30% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 93 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 14% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid5%
2–311%
4–621%
7+63%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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Lot #1North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) has created a dynamic…Published estimate£5.0m
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–325%
4–622%
7+46%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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Barnardo'sLarge | £167m83 awards in 36m · last this month | 31 live · £87m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=38 |
| £28m9 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 4 live · £11m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=6 | |
Scrivens LimitedLarge | £6.3m31 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
| £8.3m22 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | 1 live · £7.1m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £442k10 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 3 live · £2 iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 19 Sept 2023, 13:47 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Sept 2023, 13:47 BST
- Authority reference
WHISP-63- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-027644- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0401ffFind a Tender
Publisher note: The Trust reserves the right to remove providers for poor performance or suspend referrals to appointed providers should deficiencies be identified which is a cause for concern for patient safety throughout the life of the DPS. This is not limited to but includes unsatisfactory CQC or Ofsted Inspections, where clear progress against improvement plans has not been demonstrated to the Trust. Patient Safety is of the upmost importance. Midlands and Lancashire CSU are conducting this procurement exercise for another NHS body, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, with whom the successful bidders will enter into contract for a place on the DPS and future contracts which may be let via the DPS. Midlands and Lancashire CSU are not the contracting party. This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU eProcurement portal, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Should bidders have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact the Atamis helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035, E-mail: [email protected]. Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical 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 authorities are only bound by those parts of the regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The Trust is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 1 Nov 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
Timeline
19 Sept 2023 → 1 Nov 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published19 Sept 2023, 13:47 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 377 days · period end, not a bid countdown1 Nov 2027, 12:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria