Mental Health Support Teams Tender
To provide children’s mental health support teams.
United Kingdom-St Austell: Health services
2019/S 116-284789
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
11N
Sedgemoor Centre, Priory Road
St Austell
PL25 5AS
United Kingdom
Contact person: Gill Beardsmore
Telephone: +44 7919298572
E-mail: gill.beardsmore@nhs.net
NUTS code: UKK30
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Children’s Mental Health Support Teams
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
National funding is being made available for a further round of trailblazer sites during 19-20 to build new capacity of Mental Health Support Teams. MHSTs will have three core functions:
1) Delivering evidence based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues. The new teams will carry out interventions alongside established provision such as counselling, educational psychologists, and school nurses building on the menu of support already available and not replacing it;
2) Supporting the designated senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach;
3) Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education. Work as part of an integrated referral system with community services to ensure that children and young people who need it receive appropriate support as quickly as possible.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Cornwall.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
This contract is predicated on the successful NHS Kernow Expression of Interest with NHS England for this service. If the NHS Kernow Expression of Interest IS NOT successful this service will not be awarded and contracted.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.14)Additional information
This contract is predicated on the successful NHS Kernow Expression of Interest with NHS England for this service. If the NHS Kernow Expression of Interest IS NOT successful this service will not be awarded and contracted.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.2.1)Information about a particular profession
Educational Mental Health Practitioners.
III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:
Potential providers who progress to view the advert and accompanying tender documents (whether they decide to propose a solution or not), at that point are agreeing to keep all tender information confidential and will not copy, reproduce, distribute or pass the information to any other person at any time.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
This contract is predicated on the successful NHS Kernow Expression of Interest with NHS England for this service. If the NHS Kernow expression of interest is not successful this service will not be awarded and contracted.
VI.4.1)Review body
St Austell
United Kingdom
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: