Decision details

Using the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) make a direct award to Touchstone to deliver Live Well Leeds, a community based mental health service for a 5 year contract with the option to extend for up to a further 3 years

Reference: D57735

Decision Maker: Director of Adults and Health

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Brief Description

The Live Well Leeds community based mental health contract is due to expire on 31/3/25 following a 5 year contract and an additional 1 year contract variation. The service has an annual value in 2024/25 of £1,026,000.

 

Use of the Provider Selection Regime is being requested to make a direct award to Touchstone to deliver Live Well Leeds, a community based mental health service for a 5 year contract with the option to extend for up to a further 3 years.

 

The budget for 2025/26 will incorporate a further 5% reduction in line with savings being sought by the Authority making the annual contract value £974,700.

Impact On Wards

The service will continue to be delivered across the whole of the City.

Financial and procurement implications

In line with the wider financial savings being sought by the Authority there will be a reduction in contract value of 5% for the recommissioning of this service making the annual value £974,700. The maximum cost for the 5 year contract period 1st April 2025 – 31st March 2030 is £4,873,500.

Partnership working

From year 1 of the contract there has been annual funding injections from Children’s Services for Live Well Leeds to deliver mental health support in the 3 Early Help Hubs. For 2024/25 this is a total of £138,896. It is envisaged that this funding will continue but it is not yet known at what level as it is funded from central government grants.

 

For the first 5 years of the contract (2019 – 2024) the ICB contributed an annual amount of £109,645 to deliver a befriending service. This funding ceased in March 2024 as part of wider ICB financial savings. The service adjusted their service offer for 2024/25 to take account of this.

 

Decision:

1  The Director of Adults and Health made a direct award to Touchstone-Leeds for the provision of Live Well Leeds – a Community Based Mental Health Service. The approval is for a new contract period of 2 years commencing on 1st April 2025 until 31st March 2027 at a maximum cost of £1,949,400.00 with an option to extend for a further 1 year period. The direct award will be carried out in accordance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR) which came into force on the 1st January 2024.

2  Note that the value of the contract would be £2,924,100.00 if the extension period is to be utilised.

 

Reason Key: Financial Impact>£500K;

Wards Affected: (All Wards);

Other reasons / organisations consulted

A comprehensive consultation process with service users, partners, staff and volunteers took place over summer 2024 to inform the future service model.

Consultees

Live Well Leeds strategic partners; organisations that deliver through the delivery network partnership, service users, staff and volunteers, grant applicants.

Contact: Eleanor Hastwell, Commissioning Officer 0113 378 7856 Email: Eleanor.Hastwell@leeds.gov.uk.

Publication date: 17/10/2024

Date of decision: 25/10/2024

Effective from: 02/11/2024

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