Published date: 10 June 2022

Last edited date: 13 June 2022

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 6 July 2022

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

South West

Procurement reference

CF-0887500D0O000000rwimUAA2

Published date

10 June 2022

Closing date

6 July 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice and relates only to a pre-procurement market engagement exercise.
The NHS in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly are undertaking a programme of work which includes commissioning/recommissioning an enhanced range of community mental health (CMH) services across the mental health pathway, particularly those typically delivered by the Voluntary Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector. This pre-procurement exercise will allow commissioners to engage directly and collaboratively with potential providers to aid with service and procurement process design, as well as to determine the level of provider interest.
A list of possible in-scope services is provided below, but this is currently under consideration, and may be reduced or enhanced, as the engagement and planning process develops:
• Community mental health support
• Support for people with complex emotional difficulties
• Support for people with an eating disorder
• Support to ensure completion of annual physical health checks for people with serious mental illness
• Community rehabilitation
• Support for older people's mental health needs
• Support for young adults' mental health needs
• Inpatients (support during and post admission)
• Crisis mental health support
Services relating to: counselling, wellbeing, community activities, bereavement and employment support are also under consideration
The objectives for the programme include:
• Developing a new MH model across primary and secondary care
• Redesigning and integrating CMH services around Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and Integrated Care Areas (ICAs).
• Enabling integration and collaboration between primary care, secondary care, VCSE organisations, Local Authority partners and Service Users.
• Improving patient experience and outcomes as the system would be providing the right holistic support at the right time from the best placed organisation/s enabling a positive and personalised recovery journey
The total anticipated contract value for all in-scope services is approximately £1 million - £1.6 million per annum, the contract term is expected to be 3 years, with an option to extend for up to a further 2 years, and it is currently anticipated that contracts will commence on 1st April 2023. Please note that all of these are subject to change.
The Commissioner will be holding a series of market engagement events/activities to:
• Engage with potential providers and understand provider interest in delivering in-scope services.
• Help enable providers to participate in the process.
• Inform development of service specification/s and collaborative service delivery options.
• Help shape the commissioning and contracting process
An initial market briefing event will be held virtually over MS Teams in the afternoon of Wednesday 13th July 2022. As plans develop, further events may follow in the form of workshops and / or provider 1-2-1 meetings.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Cornwall and IoS Mental Health Transformation Programme

  • Early engagement
  • Published 10 June 2022

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Tom Griffiths

Address

Suite 6, Carew House
Bodmin
PL31 2QN
GB

Email

Scwcsu.procurement@nhs.net