Published date: 6 April 2017

Last edited date: 6 April 2017

This notice was replaced on 5 September 2017

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Awarded contract (published 5 September 2017)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Business and management consultancy and related services - 79400000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£147,000

Procurement reference

17_03_15

Published date

6 April 2017

Closing date

10 April 2017

Contract start date

15 May 2017

Contract end date

14 August 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The team is seeking financial support resources over a period of three months from May 2017 to August 2017. The required work will encompass providing financial support to the key NHS England service review programmes of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities; the pilot of New Care Models in Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS):and adult low and medium secure mental health services.
It is envisaged that the successful organisation who provides financial support will have relevant experience, detailed knowledge of the above key areas as well as possess accountancy qualifications. The support is also required to have detailed knowledge of the workings of these services within the overall NHS context.

Some of the key objectives for the support have been documented below:

Whole genome sequencing;
• Developing pricing and currency options;
• Supporting development of other documents required for procurement such as lotting options, test list;
• Undertaking modelling activities against proposed structure
• Finance input into procurement, including developing contract schedules, developing framework and templates for evaluating financial element of bids, and undertaking evaluation of bids in ITT Stage 1 and 2 of the procurement.

Mental Health and Learning Disability Support:

• Supporting the Mother and Baby Unit procurement relating to finance support and VFM assessments;

• Supporting the financial arrangements for additional MBU beds from existing units and the expansion of outreach where not already funded;

• CAMHS: supporting the implementation arrangements; particularly the overall national coordination of delivery plans and the impact on associated double running costs and changes to financial flows;

New Care Models - NCM Wave 1 Pilot Sites

• Review service data for completeness and quality in the current contract information dataset;

• Review and agree financial baseline adjustments for wave 1 pilot sites using 2016/17 month 12 activity data returns;



NCM Wave 2 Sites (from July 2017)

• Review service data for completeness and quality in the current contract information dataset;

• Financial support to wave 2 site hubs and lead provider organisations to review and finalise their baseline positions;


Interested parties must be registered on Bravo Solutions in order to access the ITQ documents. Please use the following address if you are not already registered:
https://nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html.

IN ADDITION, PLEASE ENSURE YOU EMAIL VANESSA.AMISSAH@NHS.NET TO EXPRESS AN INTEREST BY MONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017, 12 NOON, AT THE LATEST.

IT IS ENVISAGED THAT THE INVITATION TO QUOTE DOCUMENTS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE BY 18/04/17 ON THE BRAVOSOLUTIONS PORTAL.


About the buyer

Contact name

Vanessa Amissah

Address

3rd Floor, Skipton House, 80 London Road
London
SE1 6LH
England

Email

vanessa.amissah@nhs.net