---
title: "LDA Secure Community Forensic Service"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6"
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json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6.json"
source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD"
published: "2024-05-23"
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# LDA Secure Community Forensic Service

Buyer: NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0469e6

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## Summary

The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board has awarded a contract for the LDA Secure Community Forensic Service to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. This service aims to support the development of clinical infrastructure for forensic community services for individuals with learning disabilities, provide specialist interventions and expertise, facilitate timely discharge from secure settings, and offer training and consultation to support hospital avoidance. The contract was signed on 19th September 2023, with a value of £1,600,000.

This procurement process was conducted as a limited procedure with an award without prior publication of a call for competition. The main procurement category is services within the health services classification. The buying organisation, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, based in Warrington, United Kingdom, sought to establish a partnership arrangement to deliver the service, creating opportunities for organisations with expertise in health services, clinical interventions, and forensic expertise to participate in providing specialised care within the community.

## Notice

The service is delivered via a partnership arrangement that is called the Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative that includes a collaboration of partners: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Cheshire Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Elysium Healthcare. The service will: * Support the development of the clinical and operational infrastructure for a forensic community service for people with LDA aged 16+, * Provide specialist intervention to service users and their families and provide added value through the dissemination of forensic expertise and knowledge across multiple stakeholders, * Support and facilitate the timely discharge of people who have complex needs from secure settings, * Provide an assertive in reach model, working with existing in-patient teams and community stakeholders, to support safe and timely discharge from secure care, * Support, where indicated, a planned transition to mainstream services (12 -18months). This should include specialist risk assessment, monitoring and clinical treatment/therapy in community settings, * Prevent hospital admission and support the gate-keeping process, * Provide advice training and consultation to the wider health, social care and criminal justice services to support the principle of hospital avoidance, * Will support the assessment and contribute to the development of interventions and follow-up for individuals with offending behaviour, * Will offer specialist advice to the wider system to assist in in determining whether someone should have care and treatment within the community.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has directly awarded a contract via a contract modification for Learning Disability and/or Autism Secure Community Forensic Service.

### 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/016261-2024 |
| Notice type | Award 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 May 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 18 Sep 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 | £1,600,000 |

## 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 | TLD6 Cheshire, TLD7 Merseyside |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 23 May 2024 at 08:08 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016261-2024

## Notice URLs

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

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