NHS South Worcestershire CCG Bereavement Services

This is a Voluntary Ex Ante notice for the purpose of Transparency and is not a call for competition.

NHS South Worcestershire CCG wish to publish their intent with regards to the following service - South Worcestershire Bereavement service.

The intent is to award this contract to the current provider without a call for competition.

Providers are invited to express comment or interest on this intent.

Bereavement Support South Worcestershire (BSSW)) provides bereavement support for families, relatives and friends who have experienced either sudden or expected deaths.

Bereavement Support South Worcestershire provides a tiered support system that aims to meet a diversity of needs within the local community, ranging from non-intervention support to high-level intervention work: Annual value is £76k per annum.

"Light Touch Regime" services: This service is classified as clinical which comes under the Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations").

The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.

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 service under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency.

This service may be 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 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

Further information on transparency can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-and-contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance"