Community Mental Health Framework Supporting Services

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (BNSSG ICB) has extended a number of current Community Mental Health Supporting Services contracts by 1-3 years., in order to align the services to the emerging BNSSG Community Mental Health Programme (CMHP) and avoid gaps in services prior to new locality based community mental health offer being fully established..

All the relevant Providers are providing a service of acceptable quality that meets the needs and expectation of the ICB and patients. The ICB has no concerns regarding the proposed providers' ability to deliver the service.. As a result of all of the material factors noted above, the negotiated procedure without prior publication is justified under regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) 'competition is absent for technical reasons'.

The value of this notice, which is split across the above 24 separate contracts, is £11,871,313.00 for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

The value of this notice, which is split across the above 7 separate contracts, is £3,891,194.00 for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

The value of this notice, which is split across the above 1 separate contracts, is £46,713.00 for the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026

Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).