Primary Care Primary Care Mental Health Services including IAPT steps 1, 2, 3 and 4

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit are conducting this procurement on behalf of NHS St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group.

The procurement requires Primary Care Primary Care Mental Health Services including IAPT steps 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Most people with mental health problems are cared for by their GP with one in four GP consultations containing a mental health component. The CCG is committed to providing high quality, safe, treatment and care which is known to be effective and accessible. The CCG recognises that, to enable Primary Care Mental Health Services (PCMH) to successfully deliver expected outcomes and support the recovery of Service Users, services need to work together as a system to provide holistic care and treatment, identify any gaps in service provision and ensure that communication with Service Users, providers and commissioners is maintained. Mental health issues incorporate a potential myriad of social, interpersonal and psychological distress. On occasions, further interventions and support may be required, be it employment or debt advice or support following bereavement. During 2018- 19, the CCG and Local Authority have integrated to become St Helens Cares. This Integrated approach has been supported by the Kings Fund and Nationally recognised as good practice. GP forward View describes the development of GP localities into GP Hubs - which may commission and provide local based services for their population. They may do this a standalone practice from shared premises or GPs coming together /merging as larger practices. It will be a service that: • Is population-based, pro-active, preventative and vigilant in nature; • Offers support, secures enduring recovery, resilience and well-being for service users and carers; • Has GPs, as accountable clinicians, at its heart; • Brings together a robust, vibrant menu of services to wrap round the individual and improve their mental, physical and social resilience.

These services will be delivered by the NHS, Local Authority and Voluntary Sector working together, providing an integrated offer to support GPs, their patients and carers. St Helens CCG will also act as a coordinating function, aligned with a wider network of other community-based services and providing seamless access to those services. St Helens CCG is governed by Cheshire and Merseyside Health Partnership. The CCG population is 197,184 and the estimated prevalence of Common Mental Health Disorders is 29,159 as reported by NHS England (CCG Planning Assurance Guidance). St. Helens has a high level of deprivation and unemployment, and we are a regional and national outlier for high incidence of suicide. There is a strong relationship between prevalence of recorded common mental health problems and deprivation of usual residence of patients. This service will need to deliver the nationally mandated targets set for IAPT. This contract will be required to deliver steps 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the IAPT service.

Additional information: Closing date for requests to participate 24/7/19 13.00 Closing date for receipt of tenders 24/7/19 14.00

The contract duration shall be 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years.

The estimated total value of the project is £9,833,000 for the five-year period with clawback the following items:

A funding for staff described by the bidder in the bid document who ends up as a vacancy bidders will have up to 75% of the cost of the staff described withdrawn at the commissioner's discretion

B funding for waiting list elimination described by the bidder in the bid document at the start of the contract term (i.e. the inherited waiting list) if the inherited waiting list is not cleared fully by 31/3/20

This procurement is for Social and other specific 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') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. 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.

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 procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, 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.

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