Mid and South Essex Mental Health Services

Contracts

• Mid and South Essex Mental Health Services · Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

  Signed

  1 Apr 2019

  Value

  £645,692,000

  Status

  active

  • Change When the original contract was awarded there was no reference within it to creation of or delivery within an Integrated Care Systems (ICS) as the concept had not been fully developed by NHSE yet. The NHS England current guidance is that where there are multiple commissioners for one provider, their preference is for one contract via collaborative arrangements in line with the establishment of ICSs. As such, these circumstances which have rendered the modification necessary are deemed unforeseen by the Authority. The current MSE contract for Mental Health Services with EPUT has been varied to: i) add North East Essex (NEE)CCG as an additional contracting authority (associate) to the contract, ii) incorporate the Mental Health Services required by NEE CCG iii) add Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG and West Suffolk CCG as an additional contracting authorities (associates) to the contract, and iv) incorporate the Mental Health Services required by Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG and West Suffolk CCG. The Authority deems that such modifications meet the grounds under Regulation 72 (1) (C) that they do not change the overall nature of the contract, for Mental Health Service delivery. - The value of the North East Essex MH services are approx. £43.519 million per annum - The value of the Ipswich and East Suffolk MH Services are £912,000 per annum - The value of the West Suffolk MH Services are £573,000 per annum The aggregated contract value associated with the scope of services above (pertaining to the element of the contract being modified), based on the remaining two years of the existing term is approx. £90,008,000 million. The total aggregate contract value of the existing mental health service contract over the five year term is £555,684,000. The proposed modification represents 16.2% of the original contract value and is therefore under the 50% threshold within Regulation 72 (1) (c) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The new aggregate value of the contract over the entire duration of it's term, including modifications is therefore £645,692,000., Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: When the original contract was awarded there was no reference within it to creation of or delivery within Integrated Care Systems (ICS) as the concept had not been fully developed by NHSE yet. The NHS England current guidance is that where there are multiple commissioners for one provider, their preference is for one contract via collaborative arrangements in line with the establishment of ICSs. The Essex MH Taskforce has thus recommended streamlined contract management and commissioning arrangements in order to align similar / complementary contracts which will reducing the risk of a misaligned approach to managing providers, which could result in a failure to understand themes that cut across the provider and respective CCG geographies. The Authority deems that such modifications meet the grounds under Regulation 72(1)(c) that they do not change the overall nature of the Contract, and represents 16.2% of the original contract value so is under the 50% threshold Regulation 72(1)(c).

Dispute resolution & review bodies

• High Court of Justice of England and WalesReview body London