Richmond Fellowship (Brendan House) Mental Health Services

NHS Stafford and Surrounds, NHS Cannock Chase, NHS South East Staffs and Seisdon Peninsula and NHS East Staffordshire CCGs currently offer a Supported Intervention Service at Brendan House for a short term crisis for their geographical population.

The current contractual arrangements allow for a 6 month contract extension and the CCGs wish to extend to 12 months to take the contract term until the 31st March 2020. This is to allow for time to complete a full consultation and review of services in line with current strategic direction. The CCGs intend to extend the current contract for a period of 12 months from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020.

The CCGs will exercise a voluntary 10 calendar day standstill period from the date of publication of this notice. Following successful completion of this 10 day period at midnight Sunday 10th March 2019, CCGs will confirm contractual arrangements for the 12 month period with the current provider.

Additional information: This Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It 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 authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this service under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency. This service may be subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Further information on transparency can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-and-contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance"

Following the publication of this notice there will be a 10-day standstill period, following this period the CCGs will enter into a Contract for 12 months with Richmond Fellowship.