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NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) who are looking to undertake a multi-lot Competitive Process for Community Partnership Commissioning, including: Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service Lot 3 Financial Wellbeing Service It is the intention of the NSCHT to start commissioning contracts for the above services from 1st April 2025 for 3 years with an option to extend for a further 1 year, and possibly another year (5 years total). Contract start date: 1st April 2025 Contract end date (including possible extensions): 31st March 2030 Please see below total contract values for 5 years: Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service - £580,000 Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service - £1,800,000 Lot 3 Financial Wellbeing Service - £200,000 The ITT will be live on Thursday 14th November 2024 on the Atamis Portal. The deadline for submissions will be Wednesday 11th December 2024 12:00pm midday. Bidders who submit a bid over the maximum contract values, for each lot, will not achieve the score of a pass. This will be checked during the evaluation of the pass/fail questions in the Basic Selection Envelope. There is a further competition on price. To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. There will be a maximum of 3 contracts totalling £516,000 annually. The overall maximum contract value for all 3 lots, including possible contract extensions is £2,580,000. Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact the helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk The relevant reference number for this tender is C318455 and the questionnaires will be located within the requirements. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process. The competitive tendering process to which this ITT relates to and further to which the Authority intends to purchase the Services as set out in regulation 11 of the provider selection regime 2023 for the award of a contract with a competition. This ITT has been made available to all Bidders who have expressed a potential interest in delivering this services in line with the requirements for Health Services and mixed procurements which fall under Regulation 3 and 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services is being run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation in this ITT, and in the Find a Tender contract notice advertisement. Bidders are invited to bid for each lot separately. Bidders can bid for more than one lot. If a bidder is the highest scoring bidder and therefore named the successful bidder for more than one lot, this may result in contracts being amalgamated rather than separate contracts being issued.

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT). They are looking to undertake a procurement for a Safe Haven Community Provision, which will provide safe, responsive and therapeutic support for those who are in mental health crisis. The aim of the service is to further enhance the care pathways within Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire for individuals experiencing mental health crises and to provide a safe, responsive and therapeutic alternative model of crisis support. The service will provide immediate, short-term mental health support for individuals in a crisis, ensuring that care is appropriate, person-centred and reflective of individual needs. Further objectives will be: • To reduce the need for hospital admissions. • Promote recovery and wellbeing, empowering individuals to manage their own mental health and prevent future crises. • Provide a safe environment that offers support and stabilisation for individuals in mental health crisis.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has created a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) and invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to qualify for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The purpose of issuing a new Contract Notice is to Inform the market of the re-opening of the DPS for qualification - previous FTS notice reference 2022/S 000-017401. The DPS provides for a full range of different Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services covering the areas of North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The DPS offers different delivery modalities including face to face, digital and a blended approach. This DPS service specification (Stage 1) seeks to provide an overview of the future scope of the DPS for qualification purposes. NSCHT aims to use the DPS to procure CAMHS services that will enhance existing delivery and work intuitively with the Trust's provision. All future service specifications and provision under the DPS (Stage 2) will be expected to: • Operate across the 0-25-year spectrum, in line with detailed specification requirements, most of the activity is expected to be within the 0-18-year spectrum. • Take a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach to care and support for service users, as appropriate. • Take a strengths-based and trauma informed approach to care/support that has an outcome focus. • Use agreed and appropriate outcome measure tools. • Provide timely, high quality and accessible services for children and young people and their families/carers. Whilst there will not be specified lots, interested organisations will be required to indicate their area(s) of expertise and delivery modalities as part of the qualification process. This will form the basis of shortlisting bidders in future for specified requirements under the DPS (stage 2). The DPS went live February 2023 and shall be live for a period of 5 years from this date. The DPS shall remain open over this period for new organisations to complete the registration process and join. Once appointed all eligible/capable providers shall be invited into requests for quotations as and when requirements become available. NHS Standard Terms and Conditions shall apply. The DPS shall remain open to reasonable modification for innovative practices being introduced by bidders and changes within the healthcare system throughout the life of the DPS. Applicants should register there interest to join the DPS via the MLCSU Atamis eTendering System https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome. Additional information: To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk Midlands and Lancashire CSU are conducting this procurement exercise for another NHS body, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, with whom the successful bidders will enter into contract for a place on the DPS and future contracts which may be let via the DPS. Midlands and Lancashire CSU are not the contracting party. Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime Services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The Trust is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has created a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) and invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to qualify for the provision of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Whilst there are no specified lots, interested organisations will be required to indicate their area(s) of expertise as part of the qualification process, this will form the basis of shortlisting bidders in future for specified requirements under the DPS. The DPS went live in February 2023 and shall be live for a period of 5 years from this date. The NHS Standard Terms and Conditions shall apply. The purpose of issuing a new Contract Notice is to Inform the market of the re-opening of the DPS for qualification. Previous notice reference 2022/S 000-017401.