Enhanced Care Unit · UK public procurement notice

***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>The service will offer an Enhanced Care Unit (ECU) environment and level of care. The clinical model will be trauma responsive, sensory adjusted to provide autism sensitive care. The service will include the clinical expertise required to assess and manage presentations where disordered eating is a feature and presents a clinical risk.<br/><br/>Delivering an enhanced level of care, through specialist care planning and risk assessment with a skilled MDT. The service aims to prevent children and young people from escalating to highly restrictive settings, such as PICU or low secure services, and to support timely step-down from these environments where clinically safe and appropriate.<br/><br/>The service will provide a specialist inpatient option within the clinical pathway for children and young people who may otherwise be referred to low secure services due to a lack of suitable alternatives. The ECU will prevent unnecessary escalation by delivering intensive, needs-led support within a less restrictive, therapeutically appropriate environment.<br/><br/>Further details regarding this requirement can be found in the service specification which is available to download from the Atamis portal.<br/><br/>This is a new service model for Children and Young People’s Intensive Mental Health Services (CYPIMHS), as such, the successful Provider is expected to be fully operational, providing services from January 2027.<br/><br/>The Commissioner intends to hold a market engagement event via MS Teams on 13th May 2026 at 10:00 – 12:00, with follow up 30 minute 1:1 session being held 13:00 – 16:00 on 13th and 1:1 session on 14th May 2026 10:00 – 12: 00. You will only be invited to a 1:1 session if you have attended the market engagement event, to ensure all attendees have access to the same information. Sessions will be scheduled on a first come first serve basis. Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ and search for project C444005. A link to the event can be accessed via the invitation located within the Documents area of the Atamis project.<br/><br/>Please ensure that you have registered your interest in attending the market engagement event by 12th May 2026 at 12 noon. Additional information: ***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ and search for project C444005. A link to the event can be accessed via the invitation located within the Documents area of the Atamis project.<br/><br/>Please ensure that you have registered your interest in attending the market engagement event by 12th May 2026 at 12 noon.<br/><br/>Please note that this notice does not bind either AGEM CSU or the Commissioner to any act, including but not limited to carrying out a procurement for the services described in this notice or in any accompanying documentation which may be made available to the market at this time. In the event that a procurement process is pursued following this notice, providers should note that it will be carried out under the requirements of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Furthermore, the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023, save for those requirements detailed in regulation 28 of the Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025, do not apply.