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title: "North East Essex Integrated Community Services"
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# North East Essex Integrated Community Services

Buyer: NHS NORTH EAST ESSEX CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-029609

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## Summary

The NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking to award a contract for the procurement of Integrated Community Services, aimed at transforming health service delivery in North East Essex. This tender falls under the classification of Health Services (CPV code 85100000) and is currently at the Award stage, with the contract commencing from 1 July 2021 for an initial duration of ten years. The contract value is approximately £440 million. Key dates include the initial contract award notice dated 9 March 2021, with previous discussions initiated via a Prior Information Notice published in June 2020.

This procurement provides a significant opportunity for businesses involved in health, care, and community services, particularly those experienced in integrated care models. Potential bidders include healthcare providers, community service organisations, and voluntary sector entities capable of collaborating within an alliance framework. The contract emphasises multi-agency teamwork, making it an ideal fit for businesses that can demonstrate expertise in delivering holistic, patient-focused services across the integrated health and social care landscape in North East Essex.

## Notice

NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group and Essex County Council ('the Commissioners') have sought to commission an integrated community service model that supports the vision and aims of the North East Essex Health and Wellbeing (NEE H&W) Alliance. Commissioners have set a bold and challenging goal to create multi-agency/multi-disciplinary teams in North East Essex who are empowered and supported to deliver the NEE H&W Alliance Live Well outcomes. North East Essex Integrated Community Services needs to underpin these plans, delivering a transformation of community services that seeks meaningful integration with acute, primary care networks, primary care, mental health, voluntary sector services and other NEE H&W Alliance partners to support the achievement of the strategic vision for everyone in NEE to live well. Commissioners have decided that working with an alliance of providers will be the best solution to provide affordable, sustainable and fully Integrated services and awarded the contract for the delivery of these integrated services in the form of an NHS Standard Contract in line with award notice 2021/S 000-004765 dated 9 March 2021. The Commissioners seek to make a change to this award notice as described in this corrigendum.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Commissioners and providers will work collaboratively to ensure delivery of the alliance objectives and the standards and outcomes of North East Essex Integrated Community Services. The contract to be entered into by the Commissioners and the selected alliance partners will be the NHS Standard Contract 2021/22, and subsequent revisions thereof. In addition to the NHS Standard Service Contract the providers will be required to agree and sign an alliance agreement with each other and the Commissioners. The alliance contract will run for 10 years commencing on the 1 July 2021. The Commissioners intend to work with existing providers of the integral elements of the new model, as well as other supporting partners. Commissioners believe that the existing providers and supporting partners are uniquely placed to deliver the specifications and vision for community services as part of the North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance Local Delivery Plan. In June 2020, the Commissioners published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in OJEU inviting expressions of interest form providers willing to make the commitment to collaborate in an alliance way of working and who believed they have the necessary experience in multi-disciplinary integrated care, willing to work with other statutory providers, willing to work with the current providers and capable of financially holding and managing the scale of risk through a degree of income risk share. The PIN was not commencing a competitive process but did not exclude new entrants to the Alliance either via partnering, associate or subcontracting arrangements. The Commissioners have conducted a process that complies with the principles of transparency and equal treatment, however the Commissioners were not required (and did not intend) to run the procurement in accordance with one of the specified procedures in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) (e.g. Restricted, Open, etc.). The Commissioners have, therefore, utilised the flexibilities available to them under the 'light touch regime' in conducting this process. The Commissioners have opted to undertake a due diligence assessment alongside dialogue, which has formed the basis of 'Structured Dialogue'. To achieve this vision, the current Services that were subject to the original PIN included: - musculoskeletal, pain and therapies including paediatric therapies - homecare and support service - community nursing and intermediate care - falls - strength and balance - cardiology - stroke rehabilitation - community beds - audiology - ophthalmology - community continence and urology - diagnostics - lymphoedema - crisis response. In accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020), the services covered by the arrangement may change and expand as the partnerships develop through an alliance contract. Examples of areas that could be considered by the Alliance for future delivery include but are not limited to Cataract, Glaucoma, Reablement, Diabetes, and Integrated Crisis Response services within North East Essex. The Commissioners will continue to engage with stakeholders as appropriate throughout the mobilisation and subsequent phases of the contract.

Options: In accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020), the services covered by the arrangement may change and expand as the partnerships develop through an alliance contract. Examples of areas that could be considered by the Alliance for future delivery include but are not limited to Cataract, Glaucoma, Reablement, Diabetes, and Integrated Crisis Response services within North East Essex. The Commissioners will continue to engage with stakeholders as appropriate throughout the mobilisation and subsequent phases of the contract.

### Procurement Information

In June 2020, the Commissioners published a PIN in OJEU inviting expressions of interest form providers willing to make the commitment to collaborate in an alliance way of working and capable of financially holding and managing the scale of risk through a degree of income risk share. Several expressions of interest were received from a number of providers. Since then, the Commissioners have engaged in discussions with delivery partners and associates within this group of providers, and now intend to award the contract on the basis that the listed organisations are the only providers with the requisite capacity and capability to provide the integrated community services, in line with the North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance Local Delivery Plan. The CCG believes: - This alliance approach to the implementation of the new integrated community services model will build a resilient community approach by engaging providers from across the system in the delivery of community services whilst also supporting the wider system vision for the move towards an Integrated Care System (ICS), working towards the establishment of whole system community service collaboration through an Alliance contracting model. This will build upon the broader Alliance infrastructure and relationships that have been developed since inception of the Alliance. - This integrated system approach to service delivery will guide the patient to the correct level of care and treatment, and this works best with system partners working collectively, while supporting a smoother patient pathway, promoting a trusted assessor approach and reducing the number of patient hand-offs. - There will be the integration of services to reduce duplication and prevent patients having to retell their stories, making it simple for patients and professionals to access the support they need. Reduce the complexity of care for service users and other professionals, making it seamless at the point of delivery. - This collective ownership of responsibilities for delivering a whole system approach will enable greater shared responsibility for managing system pressures with shared outcomes and performance measures across all providers e.g. any loss or gain is linked with performance overall not individual parties, The Alliance will determine how it will reinvest in service transformation (in full or in part). - There will move away from traditional commissioning models, to a population-based approach, with ever greater integration of health and local authority services and greater parity between physical and mental health. - The implementation of Neighbourhood Teams will be practical and make sense for communities (e.g. geography, rural/urban, road networks). As far as possible, be sympathetic to the new primary care groupings. As far as possible, be sympathetic to other key partners' operating models (e.g. police). Make connections to the Hub & Spoke model. - The role of the local authorities will be crucial in the implementation. With responsibility for key services, which have a direct impact health and wellbeing and their wider determinants, such as housing - including provision of disabled facilities grants (DFGs) - planning, leisure, open spaces and environmental health, second tier local authorities have a clear role in improving the health of the population in North East Essex. The formation and work to deliver against the Better Care Fund (BCF) and Improved Better Care Fund requirements have further cemented working partnership; the oversight and recommendations of the BCF will be central to the Alliance governance. - Through the mobilisation of 6 multi-agency/multi-disciplinary teams, neighbourhood plans are being designed to improve population health in local communities.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006377-2022 |
| 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, SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 8 Mar 2022 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £440,183,304 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS NORTH EAST ESSEX CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP |
| Additional buyers | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Locality | COLCHESTER |
| Post town | Colchester |
| Postcode | CO4 9QR |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex |
| ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex |
| Local authority | Chelmsford |
| Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central |
| Westminster constituency | Chelmsford |
| Delivery location | TLH3 Essex |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 13 |
| Supplier names | AGE CONCERN COLCHESTER; CITIZENS ADVICE COLCHESTER; CITIZENS ADVICE ESSEX; CITIZENS ADVICE TENDRING; COLCHESTER BOROUGH COUNCIL; COMMUNITY 360; EAST SUFFOLK AND NORTH ESSEX NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; ESSEX CARERS SUPPORT; ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; GP PRIMARY CHOICE; ST HELENA HOSPICE; TENDRING COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES; VIRGIN CARE SERVICES |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 8 Mar 2022 at 22:45 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006377-2022
- 9 Mar 2021 at 22:56 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004765-2021
- 24 Feb 2021 at 22:56 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003745-2021

## Notice URLs

- http://www.citizensadviceessex.org.uk
- http://www.colchester.gov.uk
- http://www.community360.org.uk
- http://www.cvstendring.org.uk
- http://www.eput.nhs.uk
- http://www.esneft.nhs.uk
- http://www.essexcarerssupport.org.uk
- http://www.neessexccg.nhs.uk/
- http://www.sthelena.org.uk
- https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk
- https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:290701-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML
- https://virgincare.co.uk/
- https://www.ageconcerncolchester.org.uk/
- https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/local/colchester/
- https://www.essex.gov.uk/
- https://www.gpprimarychoice.co.uk/

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