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title: "YPAS Service"
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published: "2024-05-23"
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# YPAS Service

Buyer: NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-042a1b

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## Summary

The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board has awarded a contract for the YPAS Service, a mental health service in Liverpool. The procurement was conducted through a limited procurement method and the contract covers health services with a focus on services for children and adolescents. The contract started on 1st April 2024 and will run until 31st March 2026 with a potential extension until 31st March 2027. The award was given to Young Person's Advisory Service Liverpool.

This tender provides an opportunity for businesses, especially those in the health services industry, to engage in providing mental health support services to children and young people in the Liverpool area. Companies specialising in mental health, counselling, youth services, and community-based interventions would be well-suited to compete for future procurement opportunities in this field. The collaborative model of service delivery creates space for innovative approaches to mental health care and offers potential for sustainable partnerships with the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board.

## Notice

The YPAS service is part of the overarching Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) commissioned for local patients. YPAS work as part of a specific local Liverpool CAMHS partnership alongside other local NHS, independent and voluntary sector providers in the local area who have all agreed to work collaboratively in their service delivery. YPAS delivers a prevention and early intervention model through operating three community based mental health hubs delivering the following services for CYP aged 5-25 years and their families: * Open access drop-in * Mental health wellbeing support/social prescribing * Parenting and family programmes * Counselling and psychological therapies * Alternative to crisis service * Primary Care Liaison * Mental health Support Teams in Schools (MHST) * Targeted services for CYP who identify as LGBTQ+ and refugee and asylum seekers

### Lot Information

Lot 1

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Liverpool Place have awarded a 2 + 1 contract term for YPAS Services in Liverpool Place. The contract has started on 1st April 2024 and will expire 31st March 2026 with an option to extend to 31st March 2027. In Liverpool Place YPAS are part of the Liverpool CAMHS Partnership which works collaboratively as part of a Memorandum of Agreement within all contracts. This has strengthened the collaborative approach ensuring specific requirements are shared including workforce, estates, information sharing, communication and partnerships. There is currently no other service across Cheshire and Merseyside which has the operating model of YPAS, specifically in relation to being part of a wider collaborative and core delivery partner and therefore further competition is absent to ensure continuity of delivery and sustainability of the future care model.

Options: 1 year extension is available.

### Procurement Information

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations Explanation: - Additional deliveries by by the original supplier This is a Contract Award Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015('Regulations') 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. The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015 Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication. General grounds (2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases: b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons: (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016269-2024 |
| 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 | SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 May 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Dec 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £12,563,776 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD |
| Locality | WARRINGTON |
| Post town | Warrington |
| Postcode | WA1 1QY |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLD6 Cheshire |
| ITL 3 | TLD61 Warrington |
| Local authority | Warrington |
| Electoral ward | Bewsey and Whitecross |
| Westminster constituency | Warrington South |
| Delivery location | TLD72 Liverpool |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | YOUNG PERSON'S ADVISORY SERVICE LIVERPOOL |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 23 May 2024 at 08:34 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016269-2024
- 29 Dec 2023 at 14:46 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038020-2023
- 29 Dec 2023 at 14:31 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038017-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/

## Provenance

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