Published date: 3 April 2017
Closed early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
North West
Procurement reference
EU-Supply Reference 26776
Published date
3 April 2017
Closing date
23 February 2018
Description
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to support NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to further develop the service model and to form a view of the best way to procure the service described below. This is not an Invitation to Tender (ITT). NHS SBS acting on behalf of NHS Bolton CCG are seeking information from Providers which will be used to help determine the commissioning approach for the Provision of Children and Young Person's Mental Health Service for the registered child population of the Bolton area aged 0 to 18 years or up to 25 years with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND). The CCG are seeking information relating to commissioning a high quality, evidenced based targeted service that will deliver a targeted early intervention service to meet the emotional and mental health needs of children and young people who have mild, moderate and severe needs in Bolton. This is based on the delivery of the Thrive Conceptual Framework and this model of liaison and consultation will be used to organise the provision of services to address the needs of children and young people with mental health problems, their families, carers and professionals providing access the most effective interventions. The CCG hope that the service will be child and family focused, and delivered within the context of a whole systems approach to ensure early identification, integrating working across the health and social care economy. The service will need to ensure that the least intensive intervention that is appropriate is typically provided first, with the ability to step up and step down between provision in order to best meet the changing needs and in response to interventions for children and young people. The model must ensure that intensive interventions are reserved for those children and young people at the highest level of need and who do not benefit from first-line interventions.
For the purpose of this RFI, the Affordability Threshold is estimated to be circa £2,500,000 per annum and it is envisaged that the Contract will be for a duration of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years. Your RFI response will help the CCG to further refine the service specification as well as inform the potential benefits of competition to improve services with regards to meeting the needs of service users, improving quality, value for money and better integration without destabilising service provision. You are therefore encouraged to respond to all questions as fully as you can to evidence the relative benefits of a potential competitive process. Following receipt of the RFI documentation and the finalisation of the CCG commissioning approach, it is the CCG expectation that the procurement documentation will be issued within the next 6 months. This RFI has also been advertised in OJEU.
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Bidders wishing to express an interest in participating in the RFI process should register their interest on the EU Supply Website to access the documentation. To register on EU Supply please log on to the following website: https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com and look for tender reference number 26776. The RFI documentation will be available to download from 3rd April 2017 and should be completed and submitted by 10am on 26th April 2017. For support registering on EU Supply and downloading the documentation please contact the e-Tendering help desk on 0800 840 2050 or support@eu-supply.com.
The CCG is not liable for any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any party participating in the soft market testing/sounding exercise. Any procurement of any services by the CCG in due course will be carried out strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Any responses provided will not be treated as commercially confidential and may be used by the CCG in the final Service Specification used for the contract but no organisation will be individually identified
About the buyer
Contact name
Rachael Frank
Address
NHS SBS
Salford
M50 2UW
England
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