Procurement for the provision of Autism/ADHD Support Services for families to Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group

Berkshire West CCG is seeking to procure the provision of Autism/ADHD Support Services for families of children and young people aged 0-25 years with or without a diagnosis.

The service will support the local cultural shift in moving away from the need for a diagnosis to meeting the person's individual needs through appropriate support. The scope of this service is to provide a range of elements of support from the early signs through pre and post assessment of Autism and/or ADHD for children and young people age 0-25 as part of a stepped care approach with partners.

The service will provide a range of opportunities including a navigating/signposting role, support workshops for families/carers and contributing as required to the development and updating of any local autism resources.

This approach should enhance current provision and support with the purpose of improving the quality of life for children, young people, parents, carers and families with neurodiversity, autism and/or ADHD within Berkshire West.

The objectives of the service are to offer: A. Getting Advice - a navigator programme - initial advice and signposting across Berkshire West: Including Early support and an initial point of contact offering advice and signposting to help support families to help access the right support based on their specific needs. This will include a central point of contact (e.g. single telephone line) which could include telephone, online and face to face contact. B Getting help - Support sessions & workshops based on the needs of those living in Berkshire West. These will take place in accessible locations in each locality- Reading, West Berkshire and Wokingham. This will include a program of introductory level support strategies for the families and a program for children and young people age 5 -25 years, offering age appropriate small group workshops and groups to help them recognize their strengths and support as needed with social skills and confidence in a supported setting.

Where possible the provider should deliver programmes informed by the current evidence based and aligned to local approaches. The programme of delivery must be developed in partnership with key local autism service/leads from Local Authorities (Autism leads/Education Psychology services) and from health (Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust) linked to credible local and national organizations.

The Procurement Documents and specification can be found at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home.

The deadline for response is 12 midday on the 21st of September 2020.

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

Additional information: Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'current tenders' list on the e-procurement system In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

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The procurement is not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ('the Regulations'). For the avoidance of doubt the Commissioner will not be bound by the Regulations, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) or any other regulations or legislation. The Commissioner is therefore not bound by many of the formalities and requirements of the Regulations may vary the conduct of the procurement including (without limitation) the conditions for participation, the time limits for contacting the contracting authority, and the award procedure to be applied. Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any defined terms from the Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Commissioner ('Open', 'Restricted', 'Competitive Procedure with Negotiation', 'Competitive Dialogue' or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Commissioner intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to services coming within the scope of Schedule 3. The procurement is being carried out in an open, transparent and proportionate manner that affords equal treatment of all participating Bidders.

The Contracting Authority intends to voluntarily observe a 10 day standstill period. Unsuccessful Bidders will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the Bidder/application was unsuccessful.