Find a TenderAwarded without competition
Published 12 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Health and Justice Vanguard Project

Official notice

Authority: West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS & healthcare)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Awarded value£1,266,249published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 9 Aug 2021no call for competition
Awarded to HCRG Care Group2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This contract award notice follows the publication of a Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice in Find a Tender on 12th August 2021, publication reference 2021/S 000-019666 to confirm the award of a contract to Virgin Care Ltd to deliver the Health and Justice Vanguard project across Essex.

Following the success of the POWER project across Southend, Essex and Thurrock, West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group have become a vanguard site to apply the framework for integrated care across greater Essex. This provides an opportunity for health, education, social care and health and justice partners to work together to co-design a model across Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

There is a cohort of vulnerable children and young people between the ages of 0-18 with complex needs who experience some of the highest levels of health inequality. The framework is designed using evidence-informed best practice to integrate and support services in order to intervene earlier in the pathway and stop children and young people’s progression into the justice and secure estate, or an unnecessary Tier 4 hospital admission, or other inappropriate out of area placements.

The offer aims to build trauma-informed care and formulation-driven, evidence based whole system approach to providing integrated support and creating change for the most vulnerable.

The key objective for this Vanguard is to improve CYP wellbeing, displaying direct improvement in their mental health, and emotional regulation; especially to flourish in education and learning.

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Awarded
Delivery: East of England

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
12 Aug 2021, 22:45 BST
Last source update
3 Sept 2021, 22:45 BST
Authority reference
ACE-0494-2021-West
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-021969
Classification (CPV)
Health services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02d441 Find a Tender
Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons

Published justification

Virgin Care Ltd currently delivers the Children's Pre-Birth - 19 service across Essex. This means that they are already embedded within the Essex system and have the right existing relationships required to make a success of the vanguard from the start. Because of this, they are also in a position to implement and mobilise the service within the timescales defined by NHS England as a condition of the funding.

Given the timebound issues of the funding arrangements it would not be feasible to conduct a procurement process to identify a provider in this instance.

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Buyer details updated
    3 Sept 2021, 22:45 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £1,266,2491 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 2latest 9 Aug 2021
Awarded toValueDateStatus
HCRG Care GroupSubcontracting: declared£1,266,249 †same award published again · counted once—Awarded
HCRG Care Group£1,266,249 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Health and Justice Vanguard Project · HCRG Care Group

    Signed
    9 Aug 2021
    Value
    £1,266,249
    Status
    active
  • Health and Justice Vanguard Project · HCRG Care Group

    Signed
    9 Aug 2021
    Value
    £1,266,249
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group

Contracting authorityNHS & healthcareBody governed by public lawHealth Building 4 Spencer Close, St Margret's Hospital, The Plain, Epping, East of England, CM16 6TNContact email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • High Court of Justice England and WalesReview body London
  • High Court of Justice for England and WalesReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Virgin Care LtdAwarded supplier The Heath Business and Technical Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, North West, WA7 4QX

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.