Lancs & South Cumbria - Children and Young People Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing - Lot 6 Resilience & Prevention (Multi-Lot)

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board(ICB) who are looking to undertake a multi-lot procurement for the provision of Children & Young People Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Services (Lot 6 Resilience & Prevention) in Lancashire & South Cumbria.

The proposed model incorporates one service specification covering the 6 Lancashire and South Cumbria Places/lots.

There will be a maximum of 6 contracts totalling £500,000 for the full contract length including the optional extension.

Each contract length will be 1 year, with an option to extend for an additional 1 year.

Please see below breakdown of lots and full contract values, including 1 year optional extension: Blackpool (Lot 6A) £65,280 Blackburn with Darwen (Lot 6B) £68,584 South Cumbria (Lot 6C) £41,400 Lancs East (Lot 6D) £124,544 Lancs Central (Lot 6E) £120,030 Lancs North (Lot 6F) £80,162 The ICB has set an affordability threshold for each lot within the Procurement.

Bidders who submit a bid over the maximum contract values in the procurement documents, will not achieve the score of a pass.

Their bid will be regarded as non-compliant and be a failed bid and the rest of the bid will be rejected and the scoring questions in each lot will not be evaluated.

This will be checked during the preliminary stages of the evaluation during the compliance checks.

The ICB may seek clarification on bids that are unusually low or above the affordability threshold.

This is not a competition on price.

The ITT will be live on Monday 4th March 2024 on the Atamis Portal.

The deadline for submissions will be Monday 8th April 2024 12:00pm Mid-day.

The deadline for clarification questions is Monday 25th March 2024 12:00pm.

As part of this procurement process, the Authority is intending to identify a maximum of one provider for each of the 6 contracts.

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact the Atamis Helpdesk at Phone: 0800 9956035, E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk The relevant reference number for this tender is C250223 and the questionnaires will be located within the requirements.