Children and Young Adults Mental Health Services

This is a new integrated service for Children and Young Adults from 0 to upto 25 years of age who have a mental health issue and those who are showing early signs of mental health concerns. The service aims to in reach to universal services but offer targeted and specialist services when required to aid recovery.

United Kingdom-West Bromwich: Community health services

2014/S 092-161925

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

NHS Central Midlands CSU
Kingston House, 438-450 High Street
For the attention of: Gary Hemer
B70 9LD West Bromwich
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: g.hemer@nhs.net

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: https://cmcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Address of the buyer profile: www.experiencecounts.org.uk

Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: https://cmcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)

I.2)Type of the contracting authority

National or federal agency/office

I.3)Main activity

Health

I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes

NHS Birmingham South Central Clinical Commissioning Group
Bartholomew House, 142 Hagley Road
B16 9PA Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM

NHS Birmingham Cross City Clinical Commissioning Group
Bartholomew House, 142 Hagley Road
B16 9PA Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM

Sandwell & West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group
Kingston House, 438 – 450 High Street
B70 9LD West Bromwich
UNITED KINGDOM

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description

II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

Children and Young Adults (0 upto 25 years of age) Mental Health Services.

II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

Services
Service category No 25: Health and social services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Birmingham.

NUTS code UKG31

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

The notice involves a public contract

II.1.4)Information on framework agreement

II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

85323000

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

II.1.8)Lots

This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.9)Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: yes

II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract

II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:

Provision of integrated Mental Health Services for Children & Young Adults (0 upto 25 years of age) across the city of Birmingham.
The contract will run for an initial period of five (5) years with the option to extend for upto a further two (2) years. The expected commencement date is 1st October 2015.
The required service must be accessible locally, patient friendly and age appropriate. The service provided must be patient centred, of high quality, safe and effectively delivered.
The chosen provider organisation must work in partnership with other organisations particularly with universal services such as early help services, educational establishments and third sector organisations.
The service will provide robust integrated MH Services for 0-25 year olds which includes:
— Commissioning of third sector provision to provide some elements of targeted services;
— In–reach into Early Help/Primary care services (Universal Interventions and Primary Mental Health);
— Targeted care provision to include assessment, and brief interventions;
— Specialist care provision for complex case management;
— 24/7 Home Treatment service;
— In and Out of hours Crisis Resolution service;
— In and Out of hours Emergency Psychiatric assessment service;
— Place of Safety Sec 136 suite for 0 – 18 year olds;
— Bespoke Early Intervention team for Psychosis;
— Co Morbid presentations, where Mental Health is the primary condition and for those with:
— Learning Disability
— Substance Misuse
— Youth Offenders.
NB: the provision should outline clear streams of care appropriate to age, development and presentation / diagnosis;
— To provide inpatient beds capacity for 18 to 25 year olds as necessary.

The draft service specification can be found on the following website:- http://www.bhamsouthcentralccg.nhs.uk/patient-and-public-engagement/0-25-mental-health-services.

Estimated value excluding VAT: 22 000 000 GBP

II.2.2)Information about options

II.2.3)Information about renewals

This contract is subject to renewal: no

II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

Starting 1.10.2015. Completion 30.9.2020

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:

Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details

III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

The Authority reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.

III.1.4)Other particular conditions

III.2)Conditions for participation

III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Any supplier may be disqualified who: (a) is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b)is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations; (c) has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate; (e) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (g) is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information; (h) has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1) of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA; (i) has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26 May 1972 and Article 3 (1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively; (j) has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities; (k) has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10 June 1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.

III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders’ economic and financial capacity:- (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) a statement of overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last two financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Please refer to the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and/or Memorandum of Information for specific requirements.

III.2.3)Technical capacity

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

Central Midlands CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, complete procurement specific information in the form of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available at https://cmcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. Failure to respond to the PQQ as required will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts

III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)Information about a particular profession

Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no

III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure

IV.1.1)Type of procedure

Restricted

IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: All organisations who meet the requirements outlined in the Pre – Qualification Questionnaire and Memorandum of Information applicable to this procurement will be invited to tender.

IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

IV.2)Award criteria

IV.2.1)Award criteria

The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction

An electronic auction will be used: no

IV.3)Administrative information

IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

CYAMHS 0 – 25

IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

Payable documents: no

IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

11.6.2014 – 12:00

IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

21.7.2014

IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

English.

IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Place:

Tenders will be opened electronically immediately after the closing time.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence

VI.2)Information about European Union funds

VI.3)Additional information

If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet, and may also be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction.
Central Midlands CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body (please refer to the PQQ and/or MOI for details) with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.
Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information
This exercise will be conducted on the Central Midlands CSU portal at
https://cmcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest & provide additional procurement-specific information (by completing a PQQ) through the portal as follows: i)Candidates should register on the portal athttps://cmcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. ii)Once registered, candidates must express interest by a) logging-in to the Central Midlands CSU eTendering portal, b)selecting response to advert and PQQ, c) select Open Access PQQ, d) search for and access listing related to this contract and view details, e) click on Express Interest link iii)Once you have expressed interest, access the My PQQs page where you can download documentation (if required) & construct your reply as instructed. You must submit your reply on the website by the deadline stated. For technical support in submitting your expression of interest contact the BravoSolution Help-desk on 0800 368 4850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.The healthcare services to which this advertisement relates falls within part b of schedule 3 to the Public contracts regulations 2006 (The “Regulations”) and Annex IIB to Council Directive 2004/18/EC. Placement of this advertisement nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the ccg(s) intends to hold itself bound by any of the regulations, save those applicable to part b services.

VI.4)Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

NHS Central Midlands CSU
Kingston House, 438-450 High Street
B70 9LD West Bromwich
Internet address: www.experiencecounts.org.uk

VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals

VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:

9.5.2014