Official UK procurement notice
Children and Young People's Mental Health Digital Service (Essex)
Authority: NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB (NHS & healthcare)·Consortium: 17 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, as lead Commissioner, on behalf of NHS Mid and South Essex ICB, NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB, Essex County Council, Thurrock Borough Council and Southend-on-Sea City Council, for the provision of Children's and Young People's Mental Health Digital Services.
The opportunity was advertised on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender Services in April 2022.
The maximum annual budget is £273,877 per annum. The service commencement date is 1st December 2022 for a term of 3 years plus the option to extend for a further 24 months. The total aggregate value inclusive of all extensions is £1,369,385.
CPV: Community health services · Guidance and counselling services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The aim of this CYP MH Digital Service is to provide children, young people and their…AwardedPublished value£1,369,385
The aim of this CYP MH Digital Service is to provide children, young people and their carers/guardians a digital platform for mental health support services to provide an early intervention, easy to access online in and out of hours counselling and support service to those children and young people who are registered or are eligible to be registered with a GP throughout Essex.
The Southend Essex and Thurrock (SET) Executive Collaborative Commissioning Forum is looking to improve digital and remote access to mental health support and counselling services for children and young people (CYP), enhancing the mental health of young people and their families across the seven Essex CCG localities, Essex County Council, Southend Borough Council and Thurrock Council.
Locally, commissioners recognise that CAMHS are struggling to meet growing demand from young people for mental health services and are exploring how digital technologies can help support young people in a less resource intensive way—especially where young people do not need the level of specialist community intervention that CAMHS provides
The Provider will ensure they comply with locality policies and procedures, with particular regard to encouraging young people to be as involved as possible in planning and care decisions and to ensure the needs and circumstances of individuals are made visible in their policy and practice. The Provider will ensure they build partnering relationships / pathway working with statutory health and social care services
Please note that the original advertisement for this opportunity was under NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group as lead Commissioner on behalf of the Commissioning Authorities. As of the 1st July 2022, the seven aforementioned CCG's will transition into three separate Integrated Care Boards (ICB's) namely; NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB, NHS Mid and South Essex ICB and NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, which will be named as the Contracting Authorities in any future Contract Award Notices associated with this procurement.
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (6)
- Quality: 100
- Quality Procedures and Performance: 40
- Service Delivery: 30
- Workforce: 10
- Information Governance: 15
- IM&T: 5
Published award criteria (7)
- Quality: 100%
- Price: Pass/Fail
- Service Delivery: 30%
- Quality Procedures and Performance: 40%
- Workforce: 10%
- Information Governance: 15%
- IM&T: 5%
- Price carries 60 of 200 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Apr 2022, 17:57 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2022, 13:19 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 6 May 2022 – …
- Authority reference
ACE-0508-2022-ALC- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-030185- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032b6aFind a Tender
Publisher note: We note as a condition of this form that a minimum of at least '1' must be stated for the following: Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States. To meet the requirements of this form, a figure of 1 has been represented against each. It is noted that the true value for each of the above is in fact 0. The Service to which this procurement relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended by as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, (the "Regulations"). As such, the Contracting Authority does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗
- Submission deadline
- 6 May 2022, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 6 May 2022, 17:00 BST
Timeline
6 May 2022 → 1 Dec 2022 · 4 dates- Submission deadline6 May 2022, 17:00 BST
- Bids opened6 May 2022, 17:00 BST
- Notice published26 Oct 2022, 13:19 BST
- Contract starts1 Dec 2022
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Aug 2022- Status changed to complete10 Aug 2022, 17:28 BST
- Buyer details updated26 Oct 2022, 13:19 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polaris Children's Services LtdSMETransitions Service for NHS West, Mid and South and North East Essex CCGs | £1,188,267 † | — | Awarded |
| Kooth Digital Health LimitedSMECYP MH Digital Service (Essex) | £821,631 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
CYP MH Digital Service (Essex) · Kooth Digital Health LimitedSME
- Signed
- 24 Oct 2022
- Value
- £821,631
- Period
- … – 30 Nov 2025
- Status
- active
Transitions Service for NHS West, Mid and South and North East Essex CCGs · Polaris Children's Services LtdSME
- Signed
- 29 Jun 2022
- Value
- £1,188,267
- Period
- … – 30 Nov 2025
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The aim of this CYP MH Digital Service is to provide children, young people and their… | 4bids · 2 electronic · 3 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £1,188,267 – £1,980,445 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
15 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Essex County CouncilContracting authority
- NHS Basildon and Brentwood Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authority
- NHS Castle Point and Rochford Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authority
- NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authority
- NHS Mid and South Essex ICBContracting authority
- NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authority
- NHS Southend Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authority
- NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICBContracting authority
- NHS Thurrock Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authority
- NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning GroupContracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth
- Southend Borough CouncilContracting authority
- Southend-on-Sea CouncilContracting authority
- Thurrock Borough CouncilContracting authority
- Thurrock CouncilContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of Justice of England and WalesReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- Kooth Digital Health LtdAwarded supplier
- Polaris Children's ServicesAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria