Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Services for West Essex
To deliver a single contract for the delivery of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Services across the West Essex area.
United Kingdom-Epping: Health services
2020/S 218-536575
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Building 4 Spencer Close, St Margaret’s Hospital, the Plain
Town: Epping
NUTS code: UKH35 West Essex
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Sarah Beaumont
E-mail: sarah.beaumont@attain.co.uk
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://westessexccg.nhs.uk
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Services for West Essex
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is looking for a capable provider(s) to deliver a single contract for the delivery of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services across the West Essex area.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is looking for a capable provider(s) to deliver a single contract for the delivery of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services across the West Essex area.
The casual connection between poverty, unemployment and social isolation and common mental health difficulties is well evidenced. Commissioners have therefore taken an innovative and positive new approach that locates the mandated clinical IAPT interventions within the wider socio-economic context in which the service and its users exist.
It is expected that, through a strong outward-focus and the establishment of formal referral connections to and from a wide range of existing provision across the area, within limited resources, the clinical IAPT interventions will be better supported to maximise their effectiveness and sustainability and improve service user outcomes.
The outward-looking ethos of this service will require a holistic assessment that understands psychological issues in the wider context in which they exist. A wholly clinical assessment will not be enough to gain such an understanding of each person and could lead to failure to pick up on important factors that cause or influence the presenting issue.
The national expectations of the IAPT service delivery are documented within the IAPT Manual and further developed in the Positive Practice Guides. These national documents must be used to inform the core delivery of the service. West Essex CCG has also developed its own local specification which does not rewrite the requirements and good practice guidance of these documents, but rather reinforces them and expects that they are used throughout.
The Manual describes the complexities involved in delivering an effective IAPT service, and Commissioners have built on it and the suite of Positive Practice Guides to construct their local specification.
Therefore, bidders must have regard to both the IAPT Manual and the local specification of West Essex CCG in forming their proposed service delivery model.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.14)Additional information
The financial value stated in this Notice is the full value available, inclusive of CQUIN.
Bidders must have regard to the payment model set out in the Financial Model Template (FMT) issued as a part of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation pack.
Bids must be submitted in line with the prices set out by the authority within the FMT.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
The services to which this procurement relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’). As such, the procurement of the services is being run as a bespoke, single stage application process akin to the open procedure, involving a number of stages which are outlined within the suite of procurement documents. The contracting authority does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.
VI.4.1)Review body
Town: London
Postal code: WC2A 2LL
Country: United Kingdom
Internet address: https://www.justice.gov.uk
VI.4.4)Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Postal address: Building 4 Spencer Close, St Margaret’s Hospital, the Plain
Town: Epping
Postal code: CM16 6TN
Country: United Kingdom
Internet address: https://westessexccg.nhs.uk
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: