Official UK procurement notice
National Programme of Autism Training for Psychiatrists
Authority: Health Education England
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHealth Education England are putting out this notice as a VEAT (Voluntary Ex anti Transparency Notice) with a view to completing a Direct Award to The Royal College of Psychiatrists.<br/>The case for direct award can be found on the tender portal.<br/>HEE is seeking a provider to appoint a provider to deliver The National programme of Autism training for Psychiatrists The programme of work is expected to take place over three years from commencement in October 2022-to 31 March 2025, subject to annual funding reviews. The contract will be offered aligned to this approach with an ability to review and refine the requirements in response to information and data from the end of year evaluation report.<br/>HEE believes that it is highly unlikely for any other supplier to be able to provide the following skills/tools provided by The Royal College of Psychiatrists as a supplier for the following reasons:<br/>Lack of knowledge, in-depth experience, capacity, and capabilities to deliver the programme
CPV: Education and training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1HEE delivers across the 7 NHS regions in England (Northeast and Yorkshire, North West,…
HEE delivers across the 7 NHS regions in England (Northeast and Yorkshire, North West, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East and London) and any potential supplier would be required to deliver training that would ensure psychiatry capabilities are developed in all of these regions. <br/>Health Education England is committed to working with people and families and will require that this programme of work is co-developed and delivered with autistic people and their families. Delivery organisations will be expected to outline how they proposed develop and deliver the programme in co-production with autistic people and their families as part of their proposal. <br/><br/>The programme of work is expected to take place over three years from commencement in October 2022-to 31 March 2025, subject to annual funding reviews. The contract will be offered aligned to this approach with an ability to review and refine the requirements in response to information and data from the end of year evaluation report.
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 Sept 2022, 20:56 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2022, 20:56 BST
- Authority reference
C103680- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-026793- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The RCPsych is the only supplier with the requisite expertise and experience to assist HEE and NHSE achieve its deliverables and actions set out in UK government policy and the Long-Term Plan to reduce health inequalities for autistic people, to: -<br/><br/>(i) tackle heath inequalities - by ensuring specialist autism teams across the country have access to a sufficient supply of highly skilled psychiatrists with enhanced skills in autism diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches. <br/> <br/>(ii) improve community support for autistic people – by ensuring that consultant psychiatrists working across a range of community specialities, including mental health, children and young people, older adults, and forensic services, are skilled in the recognition and assessment of autism. <br/><br/>(iii) improve support within the criminal and youth justice systems – by ensuring that psychiatrists working in these settings are skilled in the recognition and assessment of autism.<br/><br/>Specifically, the Royal College of Psychiatrists can provide access to a breadth of national expertise in neurodevelopmental psychiatry to support the design, development and delivery of a training programme that will offer the diversity of training needed, to develop both an enhanced autism specialist offer, and a foundation autism training programme for psychiatrists in wider community services.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | £1,346,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 026793-2022-1 · Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Signed
- 22 Sept 2022
- Value
- £1,346,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Royal College of PsychiatristsAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.