Published date: 11 November 2022

This notice was replaced on 6 January 2023

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 6 January 2023)

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£2,885,806

Procurement reference

NHS/SOEPS/21.826 - PINCC

Published date

11 November 2022

Closing date

12 December 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This notice is to inform the market of the intention to directly award 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council for the provision of Dementia Post Diagnostic Support in East Sussex and the Alzheimer's Society in West Sussex and Brighton & Hove, for NHS Sussex ('the Integrated Care Board') commencing 1st April 2023 for a period of 24 months.

NHS Sussex intends to directly award these 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council and the Alzheimer's Society to ensure key organisational change and transformation objectives, including the development of equitable Sussex wide approaches to service delivery, are delivered. This will include the development of convergent standards and performance metrics, benchmarking of investment based on population needs, evident Health Inequalities and will be informed by population health clinical intelligence.

This will provide the necessary additional time for NHS Sussex to complete and embed its necessary transformation work and to understand better and accurately specify future specifications for these services. This will then inform commissioning intentions which will be put to the market in 2024.

The proposed direct award decisions have been made on a strategic and clinical basis, in the context of meeting patient need and improving service equity at a time of significant national and local strategic service delivery transformation.

Contract value for East Sussex County Council (covers East Sussex) = £1,569,688 over the two year period.

Contract value for Alzheimer's Society = £1,104,118 over the two year period (covers West Sussex) & £212,000 over the two year period (covers Brighton & Hove) = Total value £1,316,118

If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 12th December, 2022.

If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent providers relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication.

Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by any other route will not be responded to).

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Additional text

National strategy dictates that health care systems ensure that people living with dementia are supported to live at home with their families for as long as possible. Early diagnosis and intervention, advance care planning, timely access to specialist assessment and treatment, and effective support for carers are key components of good care. Post diagnosis support services are the cornerstone to ensuring that people living with dementia and those that care for them are supported throughout their dementia journey.

The services provide emotional support, practical facilitation, access to wellbeing interventions, guidance and information. Working with Primary Care, they support identification of issues leading to deterioration and provide Care Coordination and Advanced Care Planning. Service provision includes, Early Onset Dementia, complex, challenging and end of life/bereavement support. The services work alongside Memory Assessment Service provision to support virtual diagnostic assessment.

About the buyer

Contact name

Sarah Rix

Address

Sackville House, Brooks Close
Lewes
BN7 2FZ
England

Email

sarah.rix1@nhs.net