Official UK procurement notice
Start For Life (SfL) Workforce Pilot within Cambridge Community Services (CCS)
Authority: Norfolk County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Award is for delivery of a nationally funded Start For Life (SfL) Workforce Pilot within Cambridge Community Services (CCS). CCS will provide a structure of clinical, and non-clinical staff who can support families within the Norfolk Western locality with face to Face appointments. Delivery will be designed to support both antenatal service delivery, and mandatory checks up to and including the age of 2.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- 25 Jan 2024, 11:34 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Jan 2024, 12:44 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-002585- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043478Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Direct award process A must be used when all of the following apply:
- there is an existing provider of the health care services to which the proposed contracting arrangements relate
- the relevant authority is satisfied that the health care services to which the proposed contracting arrangements relate can only be provided by the existing provider (or group of providers) due to the nature of the health care services
The Start for Life Workforce Pilot exists as an enhancement of the current Health Visitor led Start For Life offering. The pilot seeks to broaden the workforce, supplementing the existing provision with a new Band 3 and Band 4 workforce, and Band 7 Clinical Management staff. These staff will continue to work within the existing Start For Life framework. Cambridge Community Services (CCS) are the existing and only provider of such services in Norfolk and as such are already responsible for delivering within the provision to which the Workforce Pilot relates.
Contractually, CCS are already responsible for the delivery, including the recruitment of the Health Visitor resources and there are no other providers of Health Visiting services in Norfolk. The monies from central government have clear definition requirements that the Workforce Pilot will only be able to target specific family and child cohorts and success criteria for the Pilot, requires data sets spanning multiple, overlapping service providers within the same service.
Publisher note: This is a direct award under Direct Award Process A of the Health Care Services ( Provider Selection Regime) 2024. This contract concerns additional monies for a workforce pilot in health visiting services. As Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust hold the contract for Norfolk for the Health Visiting Service there is no other provider that can undertake this pilot.
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
No conflicts of interest were declared. Decision makers were the Director of Procurement and Sustainability and the Director of Commissioning ( Public Health) at Norfolk County Council. For the avoidance of doubt, the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. For the avoidance of doubt, this award is for a new contract and not a modification of the existing.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 002558-2024-1 · Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust
- Signed
- 23 Jan 2024
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Award is for delivery of a nationally funded Start For Life (SfL) Workforce Pilot… | 1bids | — | — | £698,992 – £850,000 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £698,922 – £850,000 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Cambridge Community Services NHS TrustAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.