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title: "NW2024-67 Professional Therapeutic Pathway"
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# NW2024-67 Professional Therapeutic Pathway

Buyer: NHS NORFOLK & WAVENEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-049b32

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## Summary

The NHS Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care Board is in the process of awarding a contract for the provision of Professional Therapeutic Pathway (PTP) services. This procurement process, initiated under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) competitive procedure, is aimed at securing services that address children and young people's mental health needs within the Norfolk and Waveney region. The contract, expected to commence on 2nd January 2025, will run for three years with the option to extend for an additional two years. The intention to award decision was made on 21st November 2024, and the standstill period concludes on 6th December 2024. The PTP service aims to leverage new providers to increase capacity and ensure timely access to mental health services, with a total contract value estimated at £2.25 million over its duration.

This procurement represents a significant business opportunity, particularly for organisations within the health services sector, including large-scale providers, independent clinicians, and voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) providers. This tender not only offers a stable revenue stream but also presents a chance to enhance service delivery in a critical area. Businesses capable of offering innovative, collaborative, and high-quality therapeutic services will be well-suited for this contract. Moreover, organisations with expertise in integrating services and addressing health inequalities will find this procurement particularly aligned with their strengths and capabilities.

## Notice

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board sought competitive offers for the provision of the Professional Therapeutic Pathway Service.

The aim of the service is to establish and maintain a Professional Therapeutic Pathway (PTP) that will enable us to engage with new providers and clinicians who are not currently commissioned across children and young people's (CYP) mental health services. This will bring additional capacity to the Norfolk and Waveney (N&W) system and ensure children; young people and their families (CYP&F) can access to support more quickly and reduce the current demand on existing service providers.

This contract is for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years. The anticipated annual contract value is PS450,000 per annum consisting of the Infrastructure budget: maximum PS285,000 per annum and the Therapy budget: PS165,000 per annum

### Lot Information

Lot 1

This notice is to communicate the intention to award a contract under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process'.

The Service Aims to act as a lead provider for independent and Voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) providers not currently commissioned by the Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care Board. The service will subcontract therapy from a range of accredited independent and VCFSE organisations to holistically meet the mental health needs of CYP, taking into account the family as a whole. The service will support CYP who are unable to access mainstream services due to either complexity or long waiting lists.

Outcomes

* Ensure our CYP&F get the right support in the right place, at the right time.
* Reduced health inequalities by working with CYP who are unable to access mainstream services for a range of reasons.
* Improved access and experience for CYP with neurodiversity by tailoring packages of care to meet their needs
* Improved collaborative and integrated approaches to working with key stakeholders.
* Support a reduction in waiting lists for CYP mental health services by working with commissioned providers to deliver waiting list initiatives.
* Improved outcomes for CYP&F as CYP are receiving earlier intervention and getting the right support at the right time.
* Improved experience of mental health support services for CYP&F

The Professional Therapeutic Pathway (PTP) service will cover Norfolk & Waveney across a range of accessible sites and will deliver the following:

* Support a reduction in CYP waiting lists across Norfolk and Waveney.
* Work with providers to establish a range of therapeutic interventions to meet identified need and demand.
* Work alongside the Access, Advice and Support service for CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health
* Ensure providers within the PTP have no more than one CYP waiting with a start date exceeding 4 weeks.
* Continuously identify and engage talking and creative therapy professionals to grow the PTP capacity and skill mix to meet need.
* Ensure that the PTP steering group continues to meet to agree and sign off future developments.
* Review at least annually unit costs across the collaborative members.
* Review at least annually referral process and reporting metrics with collaborative members.
* Review at least annually payment terms and contracting with PTP therapeutic organisations and individual practitioners.
* Provide regular reporting to Children and Young Person's Alliance Executive Management Group (EMG) including performance against Key performance indicators (KPIs), successes, risks and future developments
* Review at least annually the traffic light system to ensure complexity of referrals are seen by appropriately experienced therapists.
* Maintain up to date quality and governance data on each subcontracted organisation to maintain high clinical governance.
* Collate, for each organisation, current capacity available.
* Ensure Mental health service data sets (MHSDS) submissions are sent on behalf of collaborative members, including activity and outcomes
* Ensure practitioners consistently use and report appropriate Routine Outcome Measures as part of their inclusion on the PTP
* Develop an approach which better responds to the increasing demand for support around CYP mental health and emotional wellbeing.
* Effectively align service provision within the THRIVE framework for system change
* Provide therapeutic services within a set of agreed standards and monitoring, in line with appropriate professional bodies e.g., British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), to ensure delivery of high-quality safe services.
* Develop robust clinical governance to ensure that quality and safety is maintained to the highest standard
* The service will ensure that therapists engaged in the PTP have adequate clinical supervision arrangements which follow NICE guidelines for frequency

This contract is for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years. The anticipated annual contract value is PS450,000 per annum.

Options: This is a 3 year contract with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038074-2024 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Nov 2024 |
| Submission deadline | 15 Oct 2024 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 25 Nov 2024 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £2,250,000 |
| Lots value | £2,250,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £2,250,000 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS NORFOLK & WAVENEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD |
| Locality | NORWICH |
| Post town | Norwich |
| Postcode | NR1 2DH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH5 Norfolk |
| ITL 3 | TLH51 Norwich and East Norfolk |
| Local authority | Norwich |
| Electoral ward | Lakenham |
| Westminster constituency | Norwich South |
| Delivery location | TLH1 East Anglia |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | YMCA NORFOLK |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services
- 85323000 - Community health services

## Release History

- 25 Nov 2024 at 17:00 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038074-2024
- 16 Sep 2024 at 14:03 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029565-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
- https://www.england.nhs.uk//
- https://www.improvinglivesnw.org.uk/about-us/our-nhs-integrated-care-board-icb/icb-contact/

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