Notice Information
Notice Title
0-19 and Children's Community Services in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Local Authority Areas
Notice Description
0-19 and Children's Community Services in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and<br/>Luton local authority areas. The lead commissioner for this service is Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes ICB (BLMK ICB) and the associate commissioners are the three local authorities: Bedford Borough Council (BBC), Central Bedfordshire Borough Council (CBC) and Luton Borough Council (LBC).
Lot Information
Lot 1
0-19 and Children's Community services in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton local authority areas. The lead commissioner for this service is Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes ICB (BLMK ICB) and the associate commissioners are the three local authorities: Bedford Borough Council (BBC), Central Bedfordshire Borough Council (CBC) and Luton Borough Council (LBC). An integrated, Bedfordshire wide, 0 to 19 Children's Service is provided by School Nursing and Health Visiting working together and aims to provide safe, flexible and accessible care for children and families across Bedfordshire and Luton; and will explicitly target inequalities in health and aim to meet the needs of vulnerable or excluded groups of service users. Services will be based on the Healthy Child Programme, the overall aim to achieve the best health and well-being outcomes for all children and ensure that every family is offered a comprehensive programme of screening, immunisations, health and developmental reviews, health promotion information and parenting guidance meeting individual needs, provide individual and tailored support to ensure that children receive appropriate referrals to specialist services where indicated, and that families are signposted to wider support systems. The Community Services for Bedfordshire and Luton are commissioned jointly by BLMK ICB, Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough Councils for children's services. The aim is to provide a person-centred and outcome focused community service which provides care closer to home either in clinic, community or home based settings as appropriate. The services will reduce reliance on hospital-based care and ensure that people have access to good quality, safe, locally delivered health services integrated with other local provision. The following elements are covered under this service: * 0-19 Health Child Programme * Community Nurse Led Service - Oral Anticoagulation Monitoring Clinic * Community Paediatrics (Medical) Service (Edwin Lobo Service) * Drug and Alcohol Support Services for children and young people * Haemoglobinopathy Service and Newborn Bloodspot Screening * Looked After Children Team * Paediatric Community Audiology * Paediatric Rapid Response Team * Pre School Feeding Service * Public Health Nursing Service for School Aged Children * Speech and language therapies The ICB are intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C and the approximate lifetime value of the contract is PS326,890,622. The services are intended to be provided for a period of 7+2 years from 01st April 2025.
Procurement Information
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight of 06th November 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR'.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04b19f
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021465-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85100000 - Health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £326,890,622 £100M-£1B
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 14 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 24 Sep 20241 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 BEDFORDSHIRE, LUTON AND MILTON KEYNES INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- agem.procurementblmk@nhs.net, blmkicb.contactus@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LUTON
- Postcode
- LU1 2LJ
- Post Town
- Luton
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH21 Luton
- Delivery Location
- TLH21 Luton, TLH24 Bedford, TLH25 Central Bedfordshire, TLJ12 Milton Keynes
-
- Local Authority
- Luton
- Electoral Ward
- Central
- Westminster Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire
Further Information
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