Day Opportunities – For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Market Engagement

Concepts

• adults with severe and enduring mental illness service
• social services
• royal borough of kensington
• mental illness service
• existing service users of day services
• day opportunities
• mental illness market engagement
• arching aim of the market engagement exercise
• adults
• formal market engagement

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) will be recommissioning Day Opportunities – For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Service. The aim of this service is to: • Ensuring the existing service users of day services are offered seamless support at the start of the contracts; • The phased move from a model that primarily funds services through block payments to one that funds people through Personal Budgets and Direct Payments with a clearer focus on inclusive meaningful activities based in the community; • How the services can be reconfigured to support the further integration of the health and care system in line with the NHS Long Term Plan that is underway, including exploring new models of cooperation and partnership working that will enable more seamless support across the whole care pathway; • Relocating some building based activities to a new accessible community hub in the North of the borough; • Using co-production to redesign new service elements with people with lived experience of SMI; • Developing the strength and asset based approach that will enable people to utilise their own resources as part of the solution to managing their health and wellbeing better; • Identifying and improving outcomes delivery to give people more choice and control over their support; encompass the user’s perspective in measuring quality and performance; improve efficiency and value for money; deliver improved social value and return on investment; and reduce upstream demand on the health and care system.

Total Quantity or Scope

Prior to commencing any formal public procurement process RBKC wish to engage with interested providers and undertake a formal market engagement. The over-all arching aim of the market engagement exercise is to establish and understand the market appetite for the Day Opportunities – For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Service and brief suppliers on the service required by the boroughs providing an opportunity to seek feedback. Providers with experience of delivering these types of services are invited to attend a supplier engagement event on Thursday 30th September 2021 - 2pm to 3pm via TEAMS invite. Kindly register your expression of interest via pqq_WCC_1715 - Day Opportunities - Market Engagement by 29th September 2021. Additional information: This tendering exercise will be undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'capitalEsourcing' (www.capitalesourcing.com). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to express their interest in the market engagement event and participate in the following competitive exercise, please note registration is free.

CPV Codes

• 85320000 - Social services
• 85300000 - Social work and related services

Other Information

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