Psychological Support for Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Trainees within NHS Wales

Concepts

• cardiff
• psychiatrist or psychologist
• heiw
• psychological support
• improvement wales
• pharmacist trainees
• short term support
• professional support unit
• positive psychology
• psychological service provider

Location

Wales:

Description

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is a Special Health Authority within Wales which sits alongside Health Boards and Trusts. HEIW have a Professional Support Unit (PSU) who's role is to promote and support positive psychology and wellbeing at work for medical, dental and pharmacist trainees across Wales. Some trainees will require short term support by an appropriately qualified and experienced specialist that is outside the scope of internal PSU service expertise. Therefore HEIW have a requirement for a specialist psychological service provider to provide support to trainees across Wales for physical health, mental health, special learning and educational needs and personal and professional skills.

Total Quantity or Scope

HEIW wish to procure a specialist psychological service provider to provide short term psychological support to trainees across Wales for physical health, mental health, special learning and educational needs and personal and professional skills for referred to the PSU. The aim is to enable a significant improvement in well-being and performance such that trainees achieve a successful outcome. The successful Bidder shall be required to manage referrals for accessing short term support by an appropriately qualified and experienced specialists. Further information on the requirements is available in the tender documentation.

Renewal Options

This contract will be subject to renewal at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority may exercise its option to extend for a further two years in two 12 month intervals.

CPV Codes

• 85121270 - Psychiatrist or psychologist services

Indicators

• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The Services to which this Notice relates fall within Regulations 74 to 76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Regulations). Although HEIW may voluntarily adopt certain provisions in the Regulations neither the employment of any terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authority intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to services falling within Regulations 74 to 76. Bidders to note that they will be required to enter terms and conditions of contract as set out in the tender documents and that save for matters of clarification or consistency, HEIW will not negotiate the terms. As this is a procurement that falls under the Light Touch Regime, HEIW proposes to use a procurement procedure which is akin to the open procedure. All tender costs and any liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders. HEIW reserves the right to award the Contracts in whole or in part. HEIW reserves the right to pause, halt, abandon and/or annul the tendering process and not to award any or all the Contracts. Delivery of the services are to commence upon the anticipated Services Commencement Date (that is, on or around 03/10/2022). To complete your formal proposal, please access the ITT via the Bravo eTender wales portal where you will find a full suite of tender documentation. 1. Register your company https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/ and click the link to register. 2. Express an Interest in the tender: - Click "ITT open to all suppliers" - Click ITT _96806 and express interest - This will move the ITT into your "my ITTs" page - You can access any attachments by clicking "buyer attachments" in the "ITT details" box 3. Responding to the tender - Click "my response" under "ITT details", you can choose to "create response" or to "decline to respond" - You can now use the "messages" function to communicate - NOTE: Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Social Value/ Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic, environmental and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate to social, economic and environmental considerations. The Social Value/Community Benefits included in this contract are: Detailed in the tender documentation NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=123668 (WA Ref:123668)