North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) - Safe Haven Community Provision

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT). They were looking to undertake a procurement for a Safe Haven Community Provision, which would provide safe, responsive and therapeutic support for those who are in mental health crisis.

The aim of the service was to further enhance the care pathways within Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire for individuals experiencing mental health crises and to provide a safe, responsive and therapeutic alternative model of crisis support. The service was to provide immediate, short-term mental health support for individuals in a crisis, ensuring that care is appropriate, person-centred and reflective of individual needs.

Further objectives were: • To reduce the need for hospital admissions. • Promote recovery and wellbeing, empowering individuals to manage their own mental health and prevent future crises. • Provide a safe environment that offers support and stabilisation for individuals in mental health crisis. The proposed model was to cover Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire (covering Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire Moorlands).

There was a maximum of 1 contract. The total maximum financial envelope for 3 years with an option to extend for 1 year, then 1 year, then 1 year was £1,140,000 (£228,000 per annum).

Any bid that exceeded the total maximum financial envelope was to be viewed as non-compliant and would take no further part in the procurement exercise. This was checked during the Evaluation of the Pass / Fail questions in the Basic Selection Envelope.

The ITT was live on the Atamis Portal. The deadline for submissions was 19th March 2025 12:00pm mid day.

Full details of the services being procured were set out in the tender documents. Additional information: This procurement is for Social and other specific services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as an agent another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.