Provision of Children's Community Health Services within Bristol and South Gloucestershire

This procurement has been managed by the NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW CSU) Clinical Procurement team on behalf of the following Commissioners:

• NHS Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group
• NHS South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
• NHS North Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group
• South Gloucestershire Council
• Bristol City Council
• NHS England

The Commissioners invited Expressions of Interest from suitably qualified and experienced providers for the provision of services within the following 3 procurement lots:

1. Lot 1: Community & Public Health Nursing, Paediatric and Therapy Services for Children and Young People

o 0 -19 years Public Health Nursing

o Children / Young People Looked After Nurses

o Children's Community Therapies

o Children's Community Nursing

o Family Nurse Partnership

o Paediatrics in the Community

o School Immunisation Programme

o Children's Speech and Language Therapy

This lot was tendered under a negotiated procedure.

2. Lot 2: Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services - Targeted & Specialist levels

o Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

o Learning Disabilities

This lot was tendered under a negotiated procedure.

3. Lot 3: National CAMHS Tier 4 in-patient and day service

Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) General Adolescent Services deliver tertiary level care and treatment to young people with severe and/or complex mental disorders.

Services are provided for young people between 13th and 18th birthdays with a range of mental disorders (including depression, psychoses, eating disorders, severe anxiety disorders, emerging personality disorder) associated with significant impairment and / significant risk to themselves or others such that their needs cannot be safely and adequately met by community Tier 3 CAMHS. This includes young people with mild learning disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders who do not require Tier 4 CAMHS Learning Disability Services.

This lot was tendered under a restricted procedure.

The services were advertised on Contracts Finder and the OJEU in February 2016.

This notice informs of the formal award of these contracts to Sirona care & health CIC.

The services will commence 1st April 2017 for an initial contract period of 5 years, with the option to extend for any period(s) up to a further 5 years.

Additional information: The Services were advertised in February 2016 and are healthcare services within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 and are not fully governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commissioner has not and will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of Healthcare Services. In addition, the Commissioner has not and will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.

The Commissioner has run a fair and transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally. The Authority voluntarily advertised this procurement exercise in the Official Journal, solely in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. Neither a reference during or after this procurement process to the Regulations or the use of language or terminology common to the Regulations has required the Authority to conduct a full procurement in accordance with the Regulations.

SME Information:

Number of tenders received from SMEs = 0

Location of tenderers:

Number of tenders received from other EU member states = 0

Number of tender received from non-EU States = 0

Tenders received electronically:

Number of tenders received by electronic means = 3