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# LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lda-secure-community-forensic-service-ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board: "LDA Secure Community Forensic Service". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-cheshire-and-merseyside-integrated-care-board-nhs-qyg)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD6, UKD7
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,600,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/lda-secure-community-forensic-service-ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6#tl-md)

## 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKD

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

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** LDA Secure Community Forensic Service (active)
  - Award id: `016261-2024-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-130512`
  - Value: £1,600,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** LDA Secure Community Forensic Service (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,600,000
  - Signed Date: 18/09/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016261-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-05-23T08:08:55.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T14:07:58.747Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6