SCC DW Surrey Children’s Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service (EWMH)

Concepts

• welfare services
• ewmh
• kingston upon thames
• mental health service
• surrey children’s emotional wellbeing and mental health service
• surrey county council
• health and social work
• children and young people
• provision of a surrey children
• behalf of nhs surrey heartlands

Location

Surrey and bordering areas of Surrey within CCGs in scope

Description

Surrey County Council are tendering for the Provision of a Surrey Children’s Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Service (EWMH) on behalf of NHS Surrey Heartlands (CCG), NHS Surrey Heath (CCG), NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham (CCG) and NHS East Berkshire. The awarding authority will be NHS Surrey Heartlands CCG.

Total Quantity or Scope

The EWMH Service needs to provide: — a single point of access for callers (and users), through a variety of access means, which should fully integrate the EWMH offer, aligning referrals and requests for support for all service elements whilst ensuring that consideration of, signposting and access to early intervention services is a fundamental part of the triaging function with integration of appropriate expertise and staff to resource and deliver this; — an early intervention service — non-clinical service, providing evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions; — neurodevelopmental support service for children with potential ASD/ADHD aged 6 years and over delivering assessment, diagnosis and support; — clinical mental health service: it is expected that the below range of clinical, children and adolescent mental health service provisions will be delivered as per the service requirement and be further enhanced and supported by more robust early intervention provisions; — community eating disorder service; — community CAMHS; — Sexual Trauma and Recovery Support (STARS); — care and leaving care (post order and care leavers (including dedicated support for unaccompanied asylum seeker children care leavers and for children in care placed outside Surrey; — crisis service; — learning disabilities.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85311300 - Welfare services for children and young people
• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 85100000 - Health services
• 85323000 - Community health services

Indicators

• Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

The original procurement for Surrey Childrens Emotional Well-being and Mental Health (EWMH) was tendered on 8th June using the Light touch Open Tender procurement process only concluded with one bid being received from Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SABP). The bid submitted was deemed not suitable, and after seeking legal advice subsequently used Regulation 32(2)(a) of Public Contract Regulations 2015 to undertake a negotiated process without notice to co-create a viable solution for the EWMH Service. Negotiation was considered an acceptable next step because only one bid was received in response to the original procurement process. It can therefore be conducted under Regulation 32 of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015 ‘Negotiated Procedure without Prior Notice’. Regulation 32(a) provides that a contracting authority can award a contract by the negotiated procedure without a notice (in effect, a direct award) where ‘no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered and that a report is sent to the Commission where it so requests’. For the purposes of this regulation ‘a tender shall be considered not to be suitable where it is irrelevant to the contract, being manifestly incapable, without substantial changes, of meeting the contracting authority’s needs and requirements as specified in the procurement documents’.

Other Information

The contracting authority seeks to award the contract for a seven (7)-year period with an option to extend once for up to a further three (3) years. Any extension will be subject to agreement and subject to any restrictions placed nationally by NHS England or the Department of Health and Social Care. The procurement falls within Section 7 of the PCR 2015 (the ‘Light Touch Regime’ or LTR).