Notice Information
Notice Title
Individual Placement Service (IPS) - Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB
Notice Description
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU has been working on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, to award a contract for an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Programme. <br/>Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence- based model of employment support. Supporting people with severe mental health difficulties to find and keep competitive employment. It involves intensive, individual support, a rapid job search followed by placement in paid employment, and time-unlimited in-work support for both the employee and the employer.<br/><br/>The Lancashire and South Cumbria IPS service currently offers support to any Lancashire and South Cumbria service users aged between 16 and 69 years of age, referred via Early Intervention in Psychosis or Community Mental Health Teams or service users within either of these services who choose to self-refer into the IPS service.<br/>The service operates within the 8 key principles of IPS and a fidelity review of the service is carried out by<br/>IPS Grow to ensure the quality of the service and demonstrates the commitment to continuous quality<br/>improvement.<br/>The contract will require the provider to work with the ICB to further expand the service to other mental<br/>health services available to individuals with a severe mental illness including primary care, increasing the<br/>number of individuals supported to secure employment inline with the NHS Long Term Plan requirements<br/>as stipulated in the service specification.<br/>The provider will demonstrate the increase in activity by provided regular reports to commissioners and<br/>demonstrating the number of service users becoming actively engaged in the service and number of<br/>service users starting paid employment as well as other standards required by the commissioners.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Individual Placement Support Services for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB for a period of 3 years with a 2 years optional extension. Additional information: This contract 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. 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.
Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time,
which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. The Contracting Authority does not
bind itself to accept any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part.
The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or
tenderer in connection with the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of
the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
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 procurement under FOIA or the EIR.
In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government 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.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03946e
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018130-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
-
- CPV Codes
85100000 - Health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,550,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £2,533,333 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 26 Jun 20233 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 25 Jan 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 1 May 20233 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LEYLAND
- Postcode
- PR2 8DY
- Postcode Area
- Preston
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD4 Lancashire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD45 Mid Lancashire
- Delivery Location
- TLD North West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Preston
- Electoral Ward
- Sharoe Green
- Westminster Constituency
- Ribble Valley
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.