Patient Discharge and Mental Health Step Down Care Services (10230)

• Value: £75M

This lot aims to provide a flexible service for patients being discharged from hospital into an appropriate care setting. This service provision is to facilitate patient discharge not only from emergency departments but also from the wider acute hospital and community care settings. The service will provide the necessary assessment and enabling support required to take a medically stable person from the acute setting back home or to a more appropriate setting for assessment. Patients are supplied with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or another community setting (where appropriate). Assessment for longer-term care and support needs, which is signposted onto longer-term service Bidders, is undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person. Bidders will deliver all the mandatory requirements as detailed in the Specification section of the Framework Agreement There are additional Selection Qualification (SQ), Award Questionnaire (AQ) requirements, and Bidder Declarations applicable, and Bidders are asked to respond to these also. A Framework Agreement will be awarded to a maximum of 20 bidders for Lot1. For all Lots, the maximum number of Bidders may increase where 2 or more Bidders have tied scores in last awardable position for the Lot. Additionally, NHS SBS reserves the right to award to any Bidder whose final score is within 1% of the last awardable position of the Lot Additional information: Successful Suppliers may be requested after award to present their offer in the form of electronic catalogues.

• Value: £75M

This lot is to supply brokerage services for hospital patients whose needs are to be met when they are fit to be discharged from hospital. Bidders will deliver all the mandatory requirements as detailed in the Specification section of the Framework Agreement There are additional Selection Qualification (SQ), Award Questionnaire (AQ) requirements, and Bidder Declarations applicable, and Bidders are asked to respond to these also. A Framework Agreement will be awarded to a maximum of 20 bidders for Lot 2. For all Lots, the maximum number of Bidders may increase where 2 or more Bidders have tied scores in last awardable position for the Lot. Additionally, NHS SBS reserves the right to award to any Bidder whose final score is within 1% of the last awardable position of the Lot Additional information: Successful Suppliers may be requested after award to present their offer in the form of electronic catalogues.

• Value: £75M

To supply a "secondary care" service within a patients care setting over a period up to 6 weeks. This is a virtual ward and it is provided by a clinician in a variety of settings such as at home, onward care facilities etc. Bidders will deliver all the mandatory requirements as detailed in the Specification section of the Framework Agreement There are additional Selection Qualification (SQ), Award Questionnaire (AQ) requirements, and Bidder Declarations applicable, and Bidders are asked to respond to these also. A Framework Agreement will be awarded to a maximum of 20 bidders for Lot 3. For all Lots, the maximum number of Bidders may increase where 2 or more Bidders have tied scores in last awardable position for the Lot. Additionally, NHS SBS reserves the right to award to any Bidder whose final score is within 1% of the last awardable position of the Lot Additional information: Successful Suppliers may be requested after award to present their offer in the form of electronic catalogues.

• Value: £75M

This lot will be focused on securing Mental Health Step Down Care supported placements which must provide safe, rapid assessments with an outcome of accommodation that would support patients who are 18+ currently enduring mental ill-health and are being discharged from an acute ward for a period of up to six weeks. Bidders will deliver all the mandatory requirements as detailed in the Specification section of the Framework Agreement There are additional Selection Qualification (SQ), Award Questionnaire (AQ) requirements, and Bidder Declarations applicable, and Bidders are asked to respond to these also. A Framework Agreement will be awarded to a maximum of 20 bidders for Lot4. For all Lots, the maximum number of Bidders may increase where 2 or more Bidders have tied scores in last awardable position for the Lot. Additionally, NHS SBS reserves the right to award to any Bidder whose final score is within 1% of the last awardable position of the Lot Additional information: Successful Suppliers may be requested after award to present their offer in the form of electronic catalogues.