NSCHT Multi-Lot Community Partnership Commissioning

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For Lot 1 and Lot 2 This notice is an intention to award a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the mixed procurements (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process process. Lot 1 Health and Lifestyle Service to Everyone Health. The approximate lifetime value of the contract is £578,361.59 (for 3 years total, with an option to extend for 2 years). Dates the services are intended to be provided: Contract Start Date: 1st April 2025 Contract End Date: 31st March 2030 Date of Contract Award: 2nd April 2025 Lot 2 Future Focus Peer Coach Service to Changes Health & Wellbeing. The approximate lifetime value of the contract is £1,782,820.00 (for 3 years total, with an option to extend for 2 years). Dates the services are intended to be provided: Contract Start Date: 1st April 2025 Contract End Date: 31st March 2030 The service is to provide a lived experience support offer to individuals where an expert by experience input would be Date of benefit for recovery and to address social stressors to mental illness. Contract Award: 2nd April 2025 The purpose of this procurement exercise is to appoint a provider to support the provision of a Future Focus Peer Coach (FFPC) Service within Mental Health Services (North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent) for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust (NSCHT). The objective of the FFPC Service provision is to enable Service Users to stay well in their recovery journey. The ways in which people are supported can be flexible, should be person centred and help people to make the best use of their community resources. The Service will form a part of an integrated pathway across the voluntary sector, primary and secondary care mental health and social care. It should be based on recovery and social inclusion principles and designed to be accessible and to prevent people falling through gaps between services. 1 bidder has been selected as the highest overall scoring bidder for this lot and has been recommended as a successful bidder. This service is an existing service. Changes Health & Wellbeing are the existing provider. The contract award criteria was specified in the procurement documents. The procurement documents included the contract award criteria, including the agreed relative importance of key criteria (e.g., weighting, prioritisation) against which, bids There were evaluated. This process was a mixed procurement as Lot 1 and Lot 2 were considered to be health, but Lot 3 was not. The healthcare element was more than 50% no declared or potential conflicts of the total value interest of individuals making the 3 contracts and therefore a mixed procurement approach was taken, in accordance with PSR regulation 11 for the procurement of these 3 contracts. decision.