Kirklees Community Services

Concepts

• community health
• huddersfield
• community nursing networks
• kirklees community services
• community rehab
• children’s community nursing
• community-based services
• kirklees
• community
• children

Location

Services will be provided to the population within the area served by Kirklees Health & Care Partnership (formerly NHS Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group)

Description

The contract for Kirklees Community Services (previously known as Care Close to Home) covers a wide range of community-based services delivered to the population of Kirklees. The contract is based on a lead provider model with the contract holder being responsible to either provide the services directly or in collaboration with other providers of services.

Total Quantity or Scope

The contract for Kirklees Community Services (Care Close to Home) covers a wide range of community-based services, the scope of contract currently includes: Community Nursing Networks; Care Home Support Team; Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT); Tissue Viability Nursing; Tuberculosis; Long Term Conditions; Community Rehab; Respiratory; Continence, Colorectal & Stoma; Dermatology; Podiatric Surgery; General Podiatry; Intermediate Community Care; Integrated Transfer of Care; MSK; Cardiology (Cardiac Rehab); Cardiology (Heart Failure); Diabetes; Children’s Community Nursing; Children’s Therapies; Youth Justice; Looked After Children. Following a review of the services within the scope of the contract and an assessment of the incumbent provider’s past and current performance and capability and capacity to provide the services required over the intended contract period, the commissioner is clear that the overall contract is capable of being provided only by that provider. This is a VEAT notice for the direct award of contract of 5 years (with an option to extend for a further 2 years) to the incumbent provider. £38,000,000 anna

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85323000 - Community health services

Indicators

• Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

Commissioners are confident that an award of a new contract to a single provider without advertisement is justified and are satisfied that the overall contract is capable of being provided only by that provider. The Commissioner’s guiding principles being: • the requirement to commission services from those providers that are most capable of securing the needs of health care service users and improving the quality and efficiency of services, and that provide the best value for money in doing so. • the requirement to consider appropriate means of improving NHS health care services. The Commissioner has carried out a detailed review of the provision of particular services in its local area in order to understand how those services can be improved and, as part of that review, identified the most capable provider or providers of those services. The review has included an assessment to determine past and current performance, capability and capacity for the provider to deliver the future requirements of the contract. In the context of the review undertaken and the recommendations derived from a collaborative approach to what needs to change, the Commissioner has been able to identify with reasonable certainty that it is the incumbent provider that is capable of providing the contract (or that is capable of developing the capacity/infrastructure to do so) and to determine the incumbent provider is most capable of securing the needs of health care service users and of improving services, and represent best value for money for the contract period required from 1st April 2024.