Published date: 18 January 2018

Last edited date: 18 January 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 29 June 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

  • Community health services - 85323000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£50,000,000

Procurement reference

MEDWAY001-DN278222-06626409

Published date

18 January 2018

Closing date

29 June 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive dialog

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

Medway Council and NHS Medway CCG are seeking to recommission Community Children's Health Services.

This procurement is an innovative and progressive integration of a host of child health services across Medway jointly commissioned by Medway Council and NHS Medway CCG.

In Medway, we believe that community children's health services should focus on supporting children and families to achieve the outcomes that are most important to them.

We are aiming to build a modern and responsive system of children's community health services that retains families at the centre of interventions, that links well across health and social care disciplines as well as the wider children's workforce, and a service where practitioners are enabled and empowered to respond to individual needs.

The commissioning work covers a wide range of existing services as well some areas of new development where we know there are gaps in service. We are looking forward to working with providers to see how some of our main universal and more specialist children's health services can be better integrated, ensuring that future services are more able to meet the needs of children and families in Medway.

The current children's community health services that are included in this commissioning process are:

• Children's Community Nursing Service
• Community Nursing Team for Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities
• Special School Nursing Service
• Continence Services
• Looked After Children's Health Services
• Children's Nutrition and Dietetics
• Children's Occupational Therapy
• Children's Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
• Children's Neurological Physiotherapy
• Speech and Language Therapy for pre school children
• Speech and Language for school age children
• Paediatric Outpatient Services
• Special Needs Nursery Service
• Health Visiting
• School Nursing
• National Child Measurement Programme
• Oral Health Promotion
• Infant Feeding Network and co-ordination
• Specialist Audiological Assessment and Management
• Complex Children's Podiatry
• Children's Orthotics
• Tongue Tie Removal Service
NHS Medway CCG and Medway Council are undertaking a single commissioning process and procurement exercise, offering two distinct lots of services but underpinned by joint outcomes, values and pathways:

Lot 1: Healthy Child Programme - this will be for universal public health services and funded primarily by Medway Council and the Public Health Grant

Lot 2: Specialist Community Health Services - this consists of more specialist community children's health services including children's therapies and children's community nursing, and is funded by NHS Medway CCG
The commissioners will shortlist a number of providers to participate in the competitive dialogue process through the use of a Selection Questionnaire which is available for potential providers to download and complete.


Award information

Awarded date

16 January 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Total value of contract

£51,553,333

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

MCH House, Bailey Drive, Gillingham ME8 0PZ

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

James Welch

Address

Medway Council
Gun Wharf, Dock Road
Chatham
ME4 4TR
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1634335550

Email

james.welch@medway.gov.uk

Website

http://www.medway.gov.uk/