Official UK procurement notice
NHS Morecambe Bay CCG - Mental Health Support Teams in Schools
Authority: NHS Morecambe Bay CCG (NHS & healthcare)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Morecambe Bay CCG. This invitation to tender was for three Mental Health Support Teams in schools, in the Morecambe Bay area.
The objective of this procurement was to identify a provider who will run the existing MHST service currently within Morecambe Bay with one MHST covering Morecambe and Heysham school system and a further team covering the Barrow Peninsular High Schools. To also further establish one new MHST within Morecambe Bay working across High Schools. New services are required to be fully operational within 12 months of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) commencing training that is scheduled to start September 2022 for Wave 7, the new team is expected to be fully operational by the end of September 2023.
The population covered by the service includes all children and young people aged 5-18 years who are on roll at an educational setting that has signed up to take part in the programme. It also includes those children within the geography covered by the MHSTs whether or not they are on a school roll.
The teams will provide extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help within educational settings.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The objective of this procurement was to identify a provider who will run the existing…AwardedRenewalPublished value£5,327,590
The objective of this procurement was to identify a provider who will run the existing MHST service currently within Morecambe Bay with one MHST covering Morecambe and Heysham school system and a further team covering the Barrow Peninsular High Schools. To also further establish one new MHST within Morecambe Bay working across High Schools. New services are required to be fully operational within 12 months of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) commencing training that is scheduled to start September 2022 for Wave 7, the new team is expected to be fully operational by the end of September 2023.
The teams will provide extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help within educational settings.
The population covered by the service includes all children and young people aged 5-18 years who are on roll at an educational setting that has signed up to take part in the programme. It also includes those children within the geography covered by the MHSTs whether or not they are on a school roll.
Mental Health Support Teams are intended to:
- Deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing needs
- Support senior mental health leads in education settings to develop and introduce their whole-school or whole-college approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing
- Providing timely advice to staff and liaising with external specialist services so that children and young people can get the right support and remain in education. Additional information: The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget.
Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (6)
- Service Delivery - Pass / Fail, Scored: 42%
- Quality & Governance - Pass / Fail, Scored: 33%
- Workforce - Pass / Fail, Scored: 10%
- Information Management & Technology - Pass/ Fail, Scored: 5%
- Information Governance - Pass / Fail, Scored: 5%
- Equalities - Pass / Fail, Scored: 5%
Published award criteria (7)
- Service Delivery - Pass / Fail, Scored: 42
- Quality & Governance - Pass / Fail, Scored: 33
- Workforce - Pass / Fail, Scored: 10
- Information Management & Technology - Pass/ Fail, Scored: 5
- Information Governance - Pass / Fail, Scored: 5
- Equalities - Pass / Fail, Scored: 5
- Price: 0 - pass / fail
- Suitability
This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedu… ↗. Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2… ↗
The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents.
As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of …
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 9 Dec 2021, 22:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Jun 2022, 16:31 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 14 Jan 2022 – …
- Authority reference
L21-16- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-017095- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ff95Find a Tender
Publisher note: This procurement was for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’) http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The only selection for type of Procedure was “Open” and the Contracting Authority wishes to clarify that this is not an Open procedure but “Other” procedure under the Light Touch Regime. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 14 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 14 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
14 Jan 2022 → 1 Sept 2022 · 4 dates- Submission deadline14 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened14 Jan 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published22 Jun 2022, 16:31 BST
- Contract starts1 Sept 2022, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 Jun 2022- Status changed to complete22 Jun 2022, 16:31 BST
- Buyer details updated22 Jun 2022, 16:31 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnardo'sNHS Morecambe Bay CCG MHSTs in Schools | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
NHS Morecambe Bay CCG MHSTs in Schools · Barnardo's
- Signed
- 29 Mar 2022
- Value
- £5,327,590
- Period
- … – 31 Aug 2027
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSUContracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- BarnardosAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria