Mental Health Support Teams in Schools (NHS Greater Preston CCG, NHS Chorley & South Ribble CCG, NHS West Lancashire CCG)

Concepts

• health services
• south ribble
• stoke
• mental health support teams
• nhs greater preston ccg
• nhs west lancashire ccg
• south ribble ccg
• support unit
• nhs chorley
• months of the education mental health practitioners

Location

Description

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Greater Preston CCG, NHS Chorely & South Ribble CCG, & NHS West Lancashire CCG. This invitation to tender is for the implementation of three MHSTs in Central Lancashire (Lot 1); one MHST in West Lancashire (Lot 2). The objective of this procurement is to establish 4 new MHSTS across Central Lancashire & West Lancashire: 1 team in Greater Preston, 1 team in Chorley & South Ribble, 1 team with a close geographical spread across Chorley, South Ribble & Greater Preston, & 1 team in West Lancashire. The teams will provide extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help within educational settings. Services are required to be fully operational within 12 months of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) commencing training that is scheduled to start January 2022 so fully operational by the end of January 2023. NHS Chorley, South Ribble, Greater Preston & West Lancashire CCGs have been successful in funding for 4 Mental Health Supports Teams (MHSTs) for schools & colleges in the sixth wave of the Green Paper for Transforming Children & Young People's Mental Health Provision: July 2018 builds that upon the ambitions set out in Future in Mind (2015) & the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (2016). The successful areas that have MHSTs supporting children & young people will provide extra capacity for early intervention support within school and college settings. The three core elements that the MHSTS will provide are: 1. Deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health & emotional wellbeing issues • 2. Support the designated senior mental health lead in each setting and • 3. Provide timely advice to school & college staff Lot 1- three MHSTs in Central Lancashire (Greater Preston, Chorley & South Ribble) Lot 2 - one MHST in West Lancashire The total value of the contract is a maximum £4,497,644 over 3 years (£368,137 per team per year + £20,000 per team one-off project initiation funding) The Contract is expected to commence in Jan 2022 following a period of mobilization & will be in operation initially for a period of 36 months. The ITT will be live on Monday 6th September 2021 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) & it will have a deadline for submissions on Friday 1st October 2021 12:00pm. The deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is Friday 17th September 2021 12:00pm. Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest & gain access to this procurement's documents & more specific information. project_794 - Mental Health Support Teams in Schools (GP, C&SR, WL) The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget. Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.