Integrated Non-Custodial Healthcare Services to NHS England South West.

NHS England South West (NHSE) Health & Justice were seeking to re-commission Non-Custodial Services across the South West region.

The procurement was divided into 5 lots and cover the Offices of Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) boundaries within the South West as follows:

Lot 1: Avon and Somerset Lot 2: Devon and Cornwall Lot 3: Dorset Lot 4: Gloucestershire Lot 5: Wiltshire

Date of contract award for all contracts; 17th October 2024.

The Contracts will be for a term of 7 years and services are planned to commence from 1st April 2025.

Total financial envelopes (inclusive of mobilisation and improvement funding) as advertised:

Lot 1 - £25,987,000 Lot 2 - £21,979,000 Lot 3 - £11,471,000 Lot 4 - £9,034,000 Lot 5 - £10,897,000

Financial envelopes (exclusive of mobilisation and improvement funding, for purposes of assessment, as advertised):

Lot 1 - £25,357,000 Lot 2 - £21,447,000 Lot 3 - £11,205,000 Lot 4 - £8,824,000 Lot 5 - £10,645,000

The standstill period closed at midnight on Wednesday 16th October 2024.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process.

Additional information: The decision to award this contract in line with the Competitive Process was based on evaluation against the basic selection criteria (in the form of a Selection Questionnaire), which was assessed on a pass/fail basis, and the PSR 5 key criteria, which were assessed on a 0-4 scale, with the below weightings.

Several tender questions were asked under each of the key criteria.

• Quality and Innovation: 46%
• Value: 10%
• Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability: 17%
• Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, and Facilitating

Choice: 17%

• Social Value: 10%

The providers selected for award have been chosen as they passed the basic selection criteria and were the highest scoring bidder overall, against the key criteria.

After conducting a thorough Competitive Process, taking into account the key criteria and applying the basic selection criteria, NHS England South East is content that the providers' bids sufficiently met the key criteria and thus can proceed to contract award under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

The evaluation panel consisted of representatives from NHS England Health & Justice Commissioners, NHSE Finance, NHSE Nursing and Quality, NHSE Public health, Offices of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Probation Service and those with Lived Experience.

Award decisions have been recommended by the NHS England South West Health & Justice Senior Commissioning Manager for Non-Custodial and Children and Young People services. Award decisions have been made by the NHS England South West System Oversight and Co-ordination Leadership Team, with key decision makers being:

Managing Director - System Commissioning Development Director of Collaborative Commissioning Director of Commissioning Finance

There were four potential declarations of conflict of interest made via the conflict of interest process and recorded accordingly. However, none were deemed as actual conflicts. One potential / perceived conflict, whilst deemed as no risk to the procurement by the Programme Board Chair, was managed accordingly with appropriate mitigations.

The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on Wednesday 16th October 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR.

This procurement has been carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

The NHS England (NHSE) Health & Justice team in the South West are looking to re-commission integrated non-custodial healthcare services across the South West region.

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice in order to facilitate market engagement and encourage partnership working. NHSE invites suitably qualified and experienced providers to express their interest in attending a networking event which is currently expected to be held on Wednesday 11th October 2023. This is intended to build on the stakeholder events held across the South West region during April and May 2023.

The event will be facilitated so that providers/ potential bidders can network and explore opportunities to work collaboratively in the delivery of future integrated non-custodial healthcare services. The event will be opened with a brief overview of the commissioning vision and scope but the primary focus and time will be allocated to 'networking'.

The areas covered within the commissioning exercise will include the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner footprints listed below:

• Avon and Somerset
• Swindon and Wiltshire
• Gloucestershire
• Dorset
• Devon and Cornwall

Commissioners are giving consideration to integrating the following non-custodial services:

• Liaison and Diversion services
• RECONNECT services
• Mental Health Treatment Requirements (MHTRs)

The key aims and outcomes of an integrated non-custodial service are expected to include:

• Supporting the delivery of whole-system healthcare for patients in the (non-custodial) Criminal Justice System
• Aligning healthcare services to deliver a joined-up pathway in its entirety
• Driving self-management and ownership of health to help individuals develop the knowledge, confidence and skills they need to make the best decisions and actions for themselves
• Recommissioning across pathways (e.g. mental health treatment requirements; RECONNECT) to deliver seamless care, from custody diversion through to release back into the community
• Reducing reoffending at a regional level, ensuring continuity of care
• Consistency in range, quality, accessibility and acceptability with that available to the wider community, in order to achieve equitable health outcomes and to reduce health inequalities between people in the criminal justice system and in the wider community

It is anticipated that new contracts will commence on 1st April 2025.

This notice is placed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner. Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).