Official UK procurement notice
Admission Prevention and Rapid Response Services - Mental Health
Authority: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, working in partnership with the Norfolk and Waveney CCG, wish to expand the provision of Admission Prevention and Rapid Response services into a larger demographic area.
Working with the incumbent supplier, the Trust plan to expand the current services (Admission Prevention and Rapid Response) into other areas of the Norfolk and Waveney care sector.
The contract with the supplier will be awarded for an initial one year term (until the end of March 2023), at which point (if the pilot is deemed a success), the Trust plan on conducting a procurement process to identify the Most Economically Advantageous service provider for a longer contract term.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Admission Prevention Service (APS), commissioned to the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS…
The Admission Prevention Service (APS), commissioned to the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, delivers interventions to service users that prevent an admission to an acute mental health hospital.
The APS works with service users identified by NSFT's Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) who are "highly likely" to need admission if support is not provided to help them stay well. Interventions support persons; in crisis, with emotional and practical support, medication prompts and observation, daily life skills and activities, with housing or budgeting, to develop social and community groups, benefit applications, establishment of banking facilities and accessing adult education. The service supports individuals in crisis from presentations of crisis from anxiety through to suicidal ideation, self-harm and personality disorder etc.
The 1 hour Rapid Response service offers a county wide response and integrated offer to support other secondary services. The service supports East of England Ambulance Trusts and NSFT's Mental Health Joint Response Car (MHJRC) to prevent and avoid unnecessary conveyance to Accident and Emergency (A&E) and admission to acute mental health services. The service does this by offering assessment, investigation to a service user's needs and providing brief interventions to help de-escalate crisis and signpost to a wide range of community resources. As appropriate, the service supports EEAST ambulance and Police crews time on scene, aiding in a reduction of Section 136 and Police voluntary attendance at A&E. Additional information: The contract with the supplier will be awarded for an initial one year term (until the end of March 2023), at which point (if the pilot is deemed a success), the Trust plan on conducting a procurement process to identify the Most Economically Advantageous service provider for a longer contract term.
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
- 4 Mar 2022, 10:52 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Mar 2022, 10:52 GMT
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-006000- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031e09Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This contract modification is compliant with Regulation 72(Modification of contracts during their term) of the Public Contract Regulations; specifically section B:
(b)for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor that have become necessary and were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor-
(i)cannot be made for economic or technical reasons such as requirements of interchangeability or interoperability with existing equipment, services or installations procured under the initial procurement, or
(ii)would cause significant inconvenience or substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority, provided that any increase in price does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract;
The outlined criteria of this regulation are met by this contract modification, and the Trust will conduct a full re-procurement process for the outreach service before the end of the one-year contract term (should this pilot program be successful).
The Trust will advertise the subsequent procurement process, via a PIN or Contract Notice, to enable suitably qualified and capable suppliers to register an interest in any future procurement opportunity.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julian SupportSME | £576,200 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 006000-2022-1 · Julian SupportSME
- Signed
- 1 Mar 2022
- Value
- £576,200
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Julian SupportAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.