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title: "Provision of an Evaluation of Community Mental Health Framework Project"
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# Provision of an Evaluation of Community Mental Health Framework Project

Buyer: OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-84df5221-22f2-4349-820d-3e1d73677b55

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## Summary

The Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract for the "Provision of an Evaluation of Community Mental Health Framework Project". The project involves transforming core community mental health teams and creating new pathways for eating disorder, personality disorder, and rehabilitation. The contract value is £138,600 GBP, with a contract period from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2024. The University of Plymouth has been awarded the contract following an Open procedure. The award date was May 29, 2023.

This procurement opportunity offers a chance for research consultancy services to contribute to the NHS Long Term Plan's community-based mental health offer. Businesses in the research consultancy, market research, and social research sectors would be well-suited to compete. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are also encouraged to participate, fostering diversity in service provision and delivery.

## Notice

The NHS Long Term Plan describes a: "new community-based offer [that] will include access to psychological therapies, improved physical health care, employment support, personalised and trauma-informed care, medicines management and support for self harm and coexisting substance use... and proactive work to address racial disparities." Local areas will be: "supported to redesign and reorganise core community mental health teams to move towards a new place-based, multidisciplinary service across health and social care aligned with primary care networks." In support of this objective, Buckinghamshire Community Mental Health Framework Programme intends to commission an evaluation.. This will focus on the core Community Mental Health model transformation and also the development of new pathways for eating disorder, personality disorder and rehabilitation. The evaluation will assess the success of each pathway. The evaluation is over two years from April 2022 to March 2024. NB These latter dates over which the evaluation was originally envisaged to take place have been amended (see below). Please note that although the tender award was made on 29th March 2022, contract finalisation and signature did not take place until 23rd March 2023 due to resultant delays because of ongoing legal discussions. These discussions had no material effect on the preferred bidder's offer or offer price. Additional information: Tender Documents are available through the NHS Sourcing Tender portal at https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk/web/login.html where you will need to register. All correspondence should be received and answered via the messaging portal though NHS Sourcing. Please note that although the tender award was made on 29th March 2022, contract finalisation and signature did not take place until 23rd March 2023 due to resultant delays because of ongoing legal discussions. These discussions had no material effect on the preferred bidder's offer or offer price. The Open (LTR) procedure was used in awarding this contract

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/530f757b-de79-4d60-9d01-dc07a463d8d2 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure (below threshold) |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 May 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 8 Mar 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 23 May 2023 |
| Contract period | 30 Sep 2022 - 30 Sep 2024 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £138,600 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £138,600 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST |
| Locality | OXFORD |
| Post town | Oxford |
| Postcode | OX4 4XN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire |
| ITL 3 | TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC |
| Local authority | Oxford |
| Electoral ward | Littlemore |
| Westminster constituency | Oxford East |
| Delivery location | TLJ South East (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 73210000 - Research consultancy services
- 79310000 - Market research services
- 79315000 - Social research services

## Release History

- 23 May 2023 at 10:40 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/530f757b-de79-4d60-9d01-dc07a463d8d2

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/530f757b-de79-4d60-9d01-dc07a463d8d2
  23rd May 2023 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk/web/login.html

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