UK

Social and other specific services – public contracts - Call for competition

Information

Published

Date of dispatch of this notice: 11/10/2019

Expire date: 06/12/2019

External Reference: 2019-548279

TED Reference: 2019/S 199-484603

Social and other specific services – public contracts - Call for competition

Social and other specific services – public contracts

Prior information notice - This notice is a call for competition

Services

Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)

Name and addresses

Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
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Trust HQ, Corporation Street,
Stafford
ST16 3AG
UK
Contact person: Victoria Barton
Telephone: +44 1111
E-mail: Victoria.Barton@ssotp.nhs.uk
Internet address(es):
Main address: http://www.mpft.nhs.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/67601

I.3)

Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at:  
https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=29504&B=UK
Additional information can be obtained from
the abovementioned address:  
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted
electronically via:  https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=29504&B=UK
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted
to the abovementioned address
I.4)

Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law
I.5)

Main activity

Health

Section II: Object

II.1)

Scope of the procurement

II.1.1)

Title

Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) Support services;
Reference number:  RRE-00389
II.1.2)

Main CPV code

85100000  -  Health services
II.1.3)

Type of contract

Services
II.1.4)

Short description

RRE-00389 Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) Support services;
The Trust is currently commissioned to provide a range of IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapy) services. We are looking for providers who will support our current and future offering, through sub-contract agreements. We are keen to engage with SME providers and those from the charity/Not for profit sectors that can provide specialist services and/or knowledge to support and enhance delivery of these services. We are specifically looking for providers able to assist in the following areas; • Provide a range of therapy and guided self-help for common mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression;
• Provide treatments in the form of ‘talking therapies’ working with a fully trained and accredited Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner or High Intensity CBT Practitioner.
II.1.6)

Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)

Description

II.2.2)

Additional CPV code(s)

85100000  -  Health services
II.2.3)

Place of performance

Main site or place of performance:  
Staffordshire
II.2.4)

Description of the procurement

It is the Trust’s intention to establish an equivalent of a Dynamic Purchasing System framework under the Light Touch Regime, to support current and future IAPT services. To create an approved IAPT supplier list will enable the Trust to award contracts to those providers safe in the knowledge that providers have been matched against stringent criteria and meet quality standards as outlined by the Trust.
• Providers are asked to send expressions of interest via our Procurement portal www.EU–Supply.com only. On receipt of expressions of interest, the Trust will issue a Supplier Questionnaire.
Providers are advised contracts may be awarded without further publication.
“Light Touch Regime” services: the future procurement will be for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (“Regulations”). Accordingly, the Contracting Authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The Contracting Authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations.
II.2.13)

Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)

Conditions for participation

III.1.4)

Objective rules and criteria for participation

List and brief description of rules and criteria: It is the Trust’s intention to establish an equivalent of a Dynamic Purchasing System framework under the Light Touch Regime, To create an approved IAPT supplier list will enable the Trust to award contracts to those providers safe in the knowledge that providers have qualified against set criteria and meet quality standards as outlined by the Trust.
• Providers are asked to send expressions of interest via our Procurement portal www.EU–Supply.com only. On receipt of expressions of interest, the Trust will issue a Supplier Questionnaire.
Full Criteria for participation will be provided within these tender documents.
Providers are advised contracts may be awarded without further publication.
III.2)

Conditions related to the contract

III.2.3)

Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract

Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Description

IV.2)

Administrative information

IV.2.2)

Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate / Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest

Date:  11/10/2020
Local time:  12:00
IV.2.4)

Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.2)

Information about electronic workflows

Electronic ordering will be used
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
VI.4)

Procedures for review

VI.4.1)

Review body

Midlands Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Stafford
UK