Enhanced Care Unit
The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services.
The service must be located within the geography of the West Midlands.
As a result of this Competitive Process, a subcontract under the Lead Provider(s) head contract will be awarded to the successful Provider for a period of 3 years, with the Commissioner having the option to extend for up to a further 2 years.
The annual value is £4,841,515 based on the award of 1 contract to 1 provider or £9,683,030 based on the award of 2 contracts to 2 providers. The Commissioner at their absolute and sole discretion reserves the right to award either one or two contracts.
It is anticipated that the contract award (for the provision of an Enhance Care Unit) will be from 1 April 2027. Birmingham Women and Children's NHS Foundation Trust confirm that they currently intend to run a compliant process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (as amended) to award a new contract for a lead provider (s) of specialised child and adolescent mental health services in the West Midlands from 1 April 2027. Should there be a change in lead provider (s), all existing sub-contracts will be transferred under the same terms, to the new lead provider contract using the relevant contract terms.
Further details are provided in II.2.4.1
Toucan West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative covers a population of children and young people within the West Midlands commissioned CAMHS geographical footprint (inclusive of any Natural Clinical Flows into Region from bordering Provider Collaboratives).
Children and young people inclusive of ages 13 to 17 (with those under 13 considered on a case-by-case basis) who are registered and registrant with a GP in the West Midlands presenting with acute mental illness requiring PICU level psychiatric care. This will include those young people with diagnosed co-morbid Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and/or eating disorders (ED) and be inclusive of a requirement for nasogastric (NG) interventions.
Service Aims:
• The service will offer an enhanced therapeutic environment and level of care. The clinical model will be trauma responsive, sensory adjusted to provide autism sensitive care
• and will be skilled to work with a diagnosis where disordered eating features are a risk factor.
• Deliver an intensive level of care, through specialist care planning and risk assessment with a skilled MDT. The service aim is ensuring that young people are stepped down as soon as clinically appropriate from highly restrictive levels of care.
• The service aims to provide a specialist inpatient option for young people in a clinical pathway of care for young people who might otherwise be referred to a Low Secure pathway of care due to a lack of suitable options. ECU will prevent unnecessary escalation by offering intensive, needs-led support in a less restrictive environment.
Award Criteria:
Basic Selection Criteria – Pass/Fail or For Information only
Quality and Innovation – 35.00%
Value – Pass/Fail
Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability – 20.00%
Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice – 25.00%
Social Value – 10.00%
Unseen Presentation - 10.00%
The evaluation process covers a number of discrete stages which are outlined in Document 1 at 27.2.1. Evaluators will score answers for each question as either pass or fail or using a scale of 0-5 (where 0 is unacceptable and 5 is excellent) for scored questions as above and detailed within Document 1 at 27.3.2. Evaluations will be carried out by a panel made up of representatives (“evaluators”) from Commissioners and their advisors.
