AFC Emotional Health Support Services London
The service will aim to deliver support to the young people with emotional health needs related to stress and anxiety below the threshold for Tier 2 CAMHS services across Richmond and Kingston.
United Kingdom-Twickenham: Health and social work services
2016/S 107-191699
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Achieving for Children
1st Floor, 42 York Street
For the attention of: Ms Natalie Allen
TW1 3BW Twickenham
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7468709435
E-mail: natalie.allen@achievingforchildren.org.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.kingston.gov.uk
Electronic access to information: http://www.londontenders.org
Electronic submission of tenders and requests to participate: http://www.londontenders.org
Further information can be obtained from: Achieving for Children
1st Floor, 42 York Street
For the attention of: Ms Natalie Allen
TW1 3BW Twickenham
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7468709435
E-mail: natalie.allen@achievingforchildren.org.uk
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:Achieving for Children
1st Floor, 42 York Street
For the attention of: Ms Natalie Allen
TW1 3BW Twickenham
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7468709435
E-mail: natalie.allen@achievingforchildren.org.uk
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Achieving for Children
1st Floor, 42 York Street
For the attention of: Ms Natalie Allen
TW1 3BW Twickenham
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7468709435
E-mail: natalie.allen@achievingforchildren.org.uk
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 25: Health and social services
NUTS code UKI22
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The service will aim to deliver support to the young people with emotional health needs related to stress and anxiety below the threshold for Tier 2 CAMHS services across Richmond and Kingston. For young people who meet the threshold for Tier 2 support, they will be eligible for support from Achieving for Children’s (AfC’s) Emotional Health Service. At Tier 3, services will be provided by South West London and St Georges, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHs).
AfC is seeking to provide a service for young people, and potentially their families, to ensure that low level mental health concerns, particularly those which are stress related, are met by the service to prevent any escalation. The objective will be to provide young people, across both boroughs, with ways of coping with stress to ensure a good level of emotional well-being. A further objective will be to ensure that the parents are engaged with the counselling and are aware of their own behaviour, particularly in relation to exam stress.
Lot 2 — Young people dealing with bereavement or significant loss:
Achieving for Children is seeking a support service for children and young people who live in Kingston or Richmond who are suffering from bereavement or significant loss. The objective is to support young people through a traumatic and turbulent period of their lives and provide young people with ways of coping with the loss they feel.
Expressions of interest and electronic tender documents are available on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org), Project Id DN164737.
AfC proposes to enter into 1 contract per Lot for an initial period of 2 years with the successful Tenderer (Service Provider) with 2 possible extensions of 1 year each.
The service commencement date is 3.10.2016.
The contract: The NUTS code for this service is UKI22.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
85000000, 98000000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
The service will aim to deliver support to the young people with emotional health needs related to stress and anxiety below the threshold for Tier 2 CAMHS services across Richmond and Kingston. For young people who meet the threshold for Tier 2 support, they will be eligible for support from AfC’s Emotional Health Service. At Tier 3, services will be provided by South West London and St Georges, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHs).
AfC is seeking to provide a service for young people, and potentially their families, to ensure that low level mental health concerns, particularly those which are stress related, are met by the service to prevent any escalation. The objective will be to provide young people, across both boroughs, with ways of coping with stress to ensure a good level of emotional well-being. A further objective will be to ensure that the parents are engaged with the counselling and are aware of their own behaviour, particularly in relation to exam stress.
Lot 2 — Young people dealing with bereavement or significant loss:
Achieving for Children is seeking a support service for children and young people who live in Kingston or Richmond who are suffering from bereavement or significant loss. The objective is to support young people through a traumatic and turbulent period of their lives and provide young people with ways of coping with the loss they feel.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 380 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
Description of these options: AfC proposes to enter into 1 contract per Lot for an initial period of 2 years with the successful Tenderer (Service Provider) with 2 possible extensions of 1 year each.
Provisional timetable for recourse to these options:
in days: 0 (from the award of the contract)
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
Envisaged minimum number 1
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: As set out in the Invitation to Tender. Tender documents can be found on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org Project Id DN164737).
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
Project Id DN164737 on the London Tenders Portal (http://www.londontenders.org)
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders
Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes
Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: All tenders will be opened 1 at a time by the Head of Corporate Governance and the appropriate Director, Executive Head or Service Manager. The terms ‘Head of Corporate Governance’, ‘Director’, ‘Executive Head’ and ‘Service Manager’ include any officer duly authorised by the same.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s).
Town: Twickenham NUTS code UKI22.
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
High Court
Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
WC2A 2LL London
United Kingdom
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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