Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy) (ME) Service

Descriptions

It is the Contracting Authorities preference to enter into a contract with South Coast Fatigue for the reasons detailed below.The proposed contract is for a period of 2 years commencing 1st April 2022 with the option to extend for a further 24-month period. If, however, there are expressions of interest to compete to deliver the requirements, it should be noted that the proposed contract contains an exit mechanism after 12 months which will be enacted in order to deliver a competition process in accordance with Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for a new contract to commence for service delivery from 1st April 2023 for a 2 year with a 24 month extension option.If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority shall enter into a contract with the incumbent provider (South Coast Fatigue) to ensure continuity of services relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice.If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of this PIN further, please contact South of England Procurement Services via the Intend e-Tendering portal.Service description:The Chronic Fatigue Service (CFS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy) (ME) service provides specialist assessment, therapeutic intervention and lifestyle management advice for people suffering from mild to moderate CFS and ME. This includes advice to support health care professionals, service users and carers. Prior to the recent CCG merger the contract was hosted by West Hampshire CCG and commissioned collaboratively between the following CCG areas: West Hampshire, North Hampshire, South Eastern Hampshire, Fareham and Gosport and Southampton City. IOW CCG has a small separate contract with South Coast Fatigue.Due to the merging of CCGs in April 2021 it is proposed to merge the two contracts into one to incorporate the IOW into a single HIS CCG contract, please note the IOW element of the Contract is £20,000 per anum.The CCG's investment in this provision for the entire Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG Contract is £250k per annum total potential contract life £1,000,000 for a 2-year initial term with optional 1 x's 24-month extension periods.