First Steps Eating Disorder Enhanced Service

Concepts

• health and social work
• leicester
• camhs eating disorder service
• first steps eating disorder enhanced service
• disorders
• mild and moderate eating disorder presentations
• prevention service
• their eating disorder
• first
• disordered

Location

Leicester:

Description

The service is commissioned to deliver an early intervention and prevention service for eating disorders to deliver mild to moderate interventions for children and young people, aged 5 to 25, who are registered with a Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland GP.

Total Quantity or Scope

The service will be skilled in early detection and identification of eating disorders as well as delivering a range of interventions to mild and moderate eating disorder presentations through an embedded pathway with CAMHS Eating Disorder Service (CAMHS ED). Accepting step down following triage and direct access referrals. The service will also be focused on prevention and through its work proactively deliver campaigns through a range of social media channels and work across the education sector delivering early intervention psychoeducation workshops to students and teachers. As part of the early intervention and prevention services, C&YP will receive direct access to evidence-based information, CBT-T & CBT-E therapeutic support, and advice in key areas of concern around their eating disorder or disordered eating. LLR ICB is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C, where the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and the contract is not changing considerably. The original contract value was £150,000. The approximate lifetime value of this contract is £150,000. The dates between which the services are intended to be provided are: 12/11/2024 to 30/09/2025.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. 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 the 11th of November 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. 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 decision makers by the 11th of November 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Email address where written representations should be sent: llricb-llr.contracting@nhs.net. - Details of the award decision-makers: LLR ICB Strategic Commissioning Group on the 17th of July 2024. - Any declared conflicts or potential conflicts of interest of individuals making the decision and how these were managed: No conflicts of interest were declared. - Relative importance and rationale for the relative importance of the key criteria, and the rationale for choosing the provider with reference to the key criteria: The Contracting Authority has applied equal weighting to the key criteria. The Contracting Authority has assessed the provider's suitability and technical / professional ability to undertake this service based on their current activities and performance, against the key criteria and basic selection criteria when making a decision to award this contract. The provider's economic and financial standing has been considered in proportion to the contract value and terms. The assessment demonstrates that the provider has been, and is likely to continue to satisfy the requirements of the contract. The intention to award the contract is made on this basis.