Notice Information
Notice Title
Dynamic Support Register Keyworker Service
Notice Description
Hereafter all references to the Authority incorporates: NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB), NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB and NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB. The Authority has awarded a contract for the Provision of a Pan Essex Dynamic Support Register Keyworker (non-clinical) Service (the Service) to HCRG Care Services Ltd, using an open procedure under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Contract will be for a term of 36 months from 1st April 2025 until 31st March 2028. The Authority provided for a potential extension of up to 24 months until 31st March 2030 to future proof this contract, but this is in no way guaranteed, and activation of such extension will be at the sole discretion of the Authority based on fundamental principles laid out in the Tender Documents, as well as the performance of the provider and results of any service evaluations undertaken. The Contract to be entered into by the Authority and the HCRG Care Services Ltd will be based on the NHS Terms and Conditions for the Provision of Services 2024/25 (version dated August 2022) and all subsequent variations thereof. The aggregate value of the contract over the term (including extensions) as advertised in Find a Tender Service is PS4,715,395 excluding VAT. The Contract Value for the three-year term, which acted as an affordability envelope for the purposes of bidding, is PS2,829,147.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Authority undertook an open tender to identify a suitably qualified and experienced and technically and professionally capable provider to deliver the Service for Children & Young People (CYP) with learning disabilities and/or autism (LD/A) up to the age of 25, within Southend, Essex & Thurrock (SET). Locally, SET have too many CYP with LD/A admitted to Tier 4 hospital settings according to national targets. Embedding the DSR Keyworker Service aims to reduce these admissions for those up to the age of 25 where avoidable and help to maintain and support the CYP's placement within the community. The Authority has appointed a single Preferred Bidder to manage all aspects of the Service. As such, a Lotting Strategy was deemed inappropriate and not used, as it risked creation of unnecessary fragmentation and complexity. Accordingly, the service has been offered as a single contract awarded to a single Preferred Bidder (HCRG Care Services Ltd). The team that facilitated this procurement was the LD/Autism Health Equalities Team (LD/A HET), hosted by Essex County Council, which works across the Transforming Care Partnership between the three Integrated Care Boards (ICB), which are named as Contracting Authorities in the Contract Notice, and the three Local Authorities. These are Essex County Council (ECC), Southend-on-Sea Unitary Authority and Thurrock Unitary Authority. The programme is delivered by all partners within the TCP, but the Service Development Funding (SDF) for this Service comes from NHSE directly to the ICB's. The partnership and funding flows are thereafter governed / mechanised under a Section 75 Agreement between partners, meaning the funding sits within ECC budgets purely as it hosts the LD/A HET team, to enable the team to deliver the programme of work. The Authority took the decision to name the ICBs in the Contract Notice as the Commissioners, as the proposed Contract will be managed by ICB Contract Manager(s) and Commissioners. However, the successful bidder is required to invoice ECC to enable the necessary payment mechanisms to be implemented because of where the funding is sitting/managed. The Local Authorities are not proposed to be party to the Contract.
Options: The Authority is providing for a potential extension of up to 24 months until 31st March 2030 to future proof this contract, but this is in no way guaranteed, and activation of such extension will be at the sole discretion of the Authority based on fundamental principles laid out in the Tender Documents, as well as the performance of the provider and results of any service evaluations undertaken.
Renewal: There is an option to extend for a further 24 months until 31/03/2030.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04acbe
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001821-2025
- 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
48180000 - Medical software package
48190000 - Educational software package
85000000 - Health and social work services
85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
85323000 - Community health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,715,395 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £4,526,780 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 20 Jan 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 18 Nov 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 6 Jan 20251 years ago
- Contract Period
- 1 Apr 2025 - 31 Mar 2028 3-4 years
- 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 Mid and South Essex 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
- BASILDON
- Postcode
- SS14 3HG
- Postcode Area
- Southend-on-Sea
- Country
- England
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH3 Essex
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH37 Essex Thames Gateway
- Delivery Location
- TLH3 Essex
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- Local Authority
- Basildon
- Electoral Ward
- Fryerns
- Westminster Constituency
- Basildon and Billericay
Further Information
Notice URLs
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