NSCHT Multi-Lot Community Partnership Commissioning

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) who are looking to undertake a multi-lot Competitive Process for Community Partnership Commissioning, including:

Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service

Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service

Lot 3 Financial Wellbeing Service

It is the intention of the NSCHT to start commissioning contracts for the above services from 1st April 2025 for 3 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year, and possibly another year (5 years total).

Contract start date: 1st April 2025

Contract end date (including possible extensions): 31st March 2030

Please see below total contract values for 5 years:

Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service - £580,000

Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service - £1,800,000

Lot 3 Financial Wellbeing Service - £200,000

The ITT will be live on Thursday 14th November 2024

on the Atamis Portal. The deadline for submissions

will be Wednesday 11th December 2024 12:00pm midday.

Bidders who submit a bid over the maximum contract values, for each lot, will not achieve the score of a pass. This will be checked during the evaluation of the pass/fail questions in the Basic Selection Envelope. There is a further competition on price.

To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process,

please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing

portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

There will be a maximum of 3 contracts totalling

£516,000 annually. The overall maximum contract

value for all 3 lots, including possible contract

extensions is £2,580,000.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having

problems using the portal, they should contact the helpdesk at:

Phone: 0800 9956035

E-mail: [email protected]

The relevant reference number for this tender is C318455 and

the questionnaires will be located within the

requirements.

Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.

The competitive tendering process to which this ITT

relates to and further to which the Authority intends

to purchase the Services as set out in regulation 11

of the provider selection regime 2023 for the award

of a contract with a competition.

This ITT has been made available to all Bidders

who have expressed a potential interest in

delivering this services in line with the requirements for Health Services and mixed procurements

which fall under Regulation 3 and 11 for the award of a

contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the

Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)

Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive

tendering of these Services is being run as a

bespoke, single-stage tender process as described

in the documentation in this ITT, and in the Find a

Tender contract notice advertisement.

Bidders are invited to bid for each lot separately.

Bidders can bid for more than one lot. If a bidder is

the highest scoring bidder and therefore named the

successful bidder for more than one lot, this may

result in contracts being amalgamated rather than

separate contracts being issued.