Residential Short Breaks Service for Children and Young People

CPV: Health and social work services

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

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

7 May 2024, 13:11 BST

Last source update

15 Aug 2024, 15:55 BST

FTS notice number

2024/S 000-025992

Classification (CPV)

Health and social work services

Delivery area

West Midlands (UKG36)

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons

Published justification

This contract period would provide greater stability for children, young people, and their families. Progress Care has provided the relevant service for 9 years and have established an effective and productive working relationship.

After careful consideration, to minimise the risk of disruption to children, young people and their families, and to ensure continuity of service and support for families, the ICB wishes to award a contract to Progress Care, on the basis that: -

a) The ICB is satisfied with the contractual performance of Progress Care as the existing service provider.

b) The ICB and its partner, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, have established an effective, flexible and productive service delivery arrangement with Progress Care. Progress Care has also established an effective relationship with its service users, their families and the 5 local Special Schools

c) Progress Care has ensured that the voice of children and young people is heard appropriately and reflected in service delivery.

d) Progress Care has trained staff appropriately to manage the medical needs of service users, to the extent that, in the event of staff absence, these needs can still be met, and service resilience maintained.

e) Progress Care has provided innovative solutions to the specific care needs of individuals, making use of its knowledge of each service user and other resources at its disposal across its service portfolio.

f) The ICB is satisfied with the location of the existing service, its proximity to existing service users, their schools, and their families.

g) The ICB believes that a change of service provider, any consequential change to the location of service provision, and any change to established transportation arrangements, may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of vulnerable children and young people with complex health and care needs and their families.

h) The ICB believes the market of alternative providers to be limited. Intelligence from attempts to identify other service providers to support the emergency provision of short breaks have proven to be extremely challenging and, on most occasions, have resulted in no locally accessible placements being sourced. A market engagement exercise resulted in limited engagement from other providers and a lack of confidence in other providers bidding for the service. It is considered that a competitive process will result in only one bid or no bids from the market which would leave the service at risk.

i) For the reasons described above it is in the public interest to award the contract.

Publisher note: NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board wishes to inform the market that upon successful completion of the VEAT Notice the contract has been awarded to Progress Care. The award has been conducted under Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) (i.e., competition is absent for technical reasons) for the provision of a Residential Short Breaks Service for the Borough of Dudley. The contract duration is 3 years commencing 1st April 2024 with an option to extend for up to a further two 2 years.

• Progress Care SolutionsAwarded supplierGB-COH: 06805071 Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV4 6JG
• Progress Children's Services LimitedAwarded supplierGB-COH: 04014026 Wolverhampton, West Midlands

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