Published date: 10 December 2021
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Contract summary
Industry
Guidance and counselling services - 85312300
Location of contract
London
Value of contract
£105,000 to £175,000
Procurement reference
PRJ1101
Published date
10 December 2021
Approach to market date
15 December 2021
Contract start date
1 April 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Procedure type
Open procedure (below threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
This is a prior information notice providing advanced notice of an upcoming procurement opportunity.
NHS South East London CCG (Lewisham borough) is seeking to commission an outstanding voluntary sector provider, with extensive experience supporting the LGBTQ+ community to provide a Gender and Sexuality Emotional Support Service.
The primary objective of the service is to offer a range of psychosocial support and counselling opportunities to LGBTQ+ residents in Lewisham, whilst providing volunteering opportunities to local residents. The service will offer an early and accessible route into a range of low level therapeutic interventions. The aim of the service is to strengthen our community-based prevention and early intervention offer, by providing specialist emotional wellbeing and mental health support to the LGBTQ+ community in Lewisham. The service is made of two key elements: Community Wellbeing Workshops and Personal Wellbeing Workshops.
The chosen provider must ensure effective relationships and liaison arrangements between the service and other partner agencies across the voluntary and statutory sector. These stakeholder relationships are essential to ensure advocacy services are able to adapt to changes within local structures for provision and national guidelines.
This will be a reserved contract opportunity and will be open only to organisations who meet both of the following criteria:
- organisations who are designated as a Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) or Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) (see definitions below); and
- organisations located in South East London (London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Bexley, Greenwich or Bromley)
Please see below for further information on definitions.
This decision to reserve this contract opportunity is in line with PPN 11/20 "Reserving Below Threshold Contracts".
It is expected that the contract will start on 1st April 2022 and run for a period of 36 months until 31 March 2025 with an annual value of £35,000 (including irrecoverable VAT). The contract may be extended for a further period of up to 24 months at the CCG's discretion. Therefore, if extended, the contract will have a total duration of 60 months and a total value of £175,000 (including irrecoverable VAT).
The CCG is scheduled to publish the procurement opportunity on Contracts Finder on 15th December 2021.
Interested providers should monitor the Contracts Finder site for the upcoming advertisement which will provide instructions on how to access the tender portal to express an interest in the opportunity, access the tender documentation and submit a bid. Although the opportunity is not yet published on the tender portal, interested providers may wish to ensure they have registered an account on the portal in advance of the opportunity being published by visiting the "Register" page at the following link: https://procontract.due-north.com/Login.
More information
Spend profile
| Financial year | Budget |
|---|---|
| 2022/2023 | £35,000 |
| 2023/2024 | £35,000 |
| 2024/2025 | £35,000 |
| 2025/2026 | £35,000 |
| 2026/2027 | £35,000 |
Links
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- https://procontract.due-north.com/Login
- Notice of planned procurement
- Interested providers should monitor the Contracts Finder site for the upcoming advertisement which will provide instructions on how to access the tender portal to express an interest in the opportunity, access the tender documentation and submit a bid. Although the opportunity is not yet published on the tender portal, interested providers may wish to ensure they have registered an account on the portal in advance of the opportunity being published by visiting the "Register" page at the following link: https://procontract.due-north.com/Login.
Additional text
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The following definitions will apply to the reservation of the opportunity:
- Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME): Any business with fewer than 250 employees and either an annual turnover below £45m or a total balance sheet less than £40m.
- Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs): Any organisation (incorporated or not) working with a social purpose. This ranges from small community based groups / schemes, through to larger registered charities and social enterprises, public service mutuals and cooperatives that operate locally, regionally and nationally.
- Supplier Location: Where the supplier is based or established in South East London (London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, Bexley, Greenwich or Bromley) and has substantive business operations in one of more of these boroughs. In this context, this means having a registered office or other permanent base in the borough from which meaningful business operations have been conducted for at least 12 months.
London Shared Services (previously NELCSU) is managing this process on behalf of NHS South East London CCG (The Authority). The services to which this advert relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the Regulations) and the "Light Touch Regime" (LTR) governing the procurement of Health, Social, Education and Other service contracts. This contract is below the LTR thresholds. Neither the reference to the "Open Procedure" or the use of the term "Tender process", nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that The Authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the Regulations, save those applicable to below-threshold contracts for Schedule 3 services.
About the buyer
Contact name
Barend Henning
Address
Clifton House,75-77 Worship Street
LONDON
EC2A2DU
England
Telephone
07770970400
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