Find a TenderAwarded without competition
Published 23 May 2024, 09:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

Official notice

Authority: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (Central government)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Awarded value£1,600,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 19 Sept 2023no call for competition
Awarded to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The service is delivered via a partnership arrangement that is called the Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative that includes a collaboration of partners:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust,

Cheshire Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Elysium Healthcare.

The service will:

  • Support the development of the clinical and operational infrastructure for a forensic community service for people with LDA aged 16+,
  • Provide specialist intervention to service users and their families and provide added value through the dissemination of forensic expertise and knowledge across multiple stakeholders,
  • Support and facilitate the timely discharge of people who have complex needs from secure settings,
  • Provide an assertive in reach model, working with existing in-patient teams and community stakeholders, to support safe and timely discharge from secure care,
  • Support, where indicated, a planned transition to mainstream services (12 -18months). This should include specialist risk assessment, monitoring and clinical treatment/therapy in community settings,
  • Prevent hospital admission and support the gate-keeping process,
  • Provide advice training and consultation to the wider health, social care and criminal justice services to support the principle of hospital avoidance,
  • Will support the assessment and contribute to the development of interventions and follow-up for individuals with offending behaviour,
  • Will offer specialist advice to the wider system to assist in in determining whether someone should have care and treatment within the community.

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has directly awarded a contract via a contract…Awarded

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has directly awarded a contract via a contract modification for Learning Disability and/or Autism Secure Community Forensic Service.

Delivery: North West

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
23 May 2024, 09:08 BST
Last source update
23 May 2024, 09:08 BST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-016261
Classification (CPV)
Health services
Delivery area
North West (UKD6)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations

Explanation:

  • Additional deliveries by by the original supplier

This is a Contract Award Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015('Regulations') as specified in Schedule 3 of the 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.

The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015 Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication.

General grounds

(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:

b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:

(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £1,600,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 1latest 19 Sept 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust£1,600,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids———

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth GB-NHS: QYG 1 Lakeside 920, Centre Park Square, Warrington, North West, WA11QYContact name, email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.