Pre-Tender Market Engagement – Tender for Self Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP) [4867339]

Concepts

• health and social work
• armagh
• public health agency
• psychological interventions
• current ship service
• self harm intervention programme
• dbt interventions
• harm
• intervention
• self-harmed

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

Pre-Tender Market Engagement – Tender for Self Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP) [4867339] This contract will be awarded on behalf of the Public Health Agency (PHA) in Northern Ireland. It will be for the provision of community based psychological interventions and support services for people who self-harm including support for their family/carer. The current SHIP service complements the provision of mental health services provided across each of the five Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts. SHIP targets those with less complex mental health needs that, following triage or assessment, are deemed not to require input from the Step 3 Trust mental health services. The aim of the service will include, but is not restricted to: 1. Provide psychological interventions for individuals who have self-harmed with a view to preventing repetition of self-harm and suicide. 2. The intervention delivered will be a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed intervention. This does not mean delivering CBT but to take a CBT informed approach and therefore it is our intention that staff will hold a level 5 qualification in CBT in addition to other relevant counselling/mental health qualifications specified. Providers will be expected to have an awareness of trauma-informed care and apply these principles. Providers should also have a basic awareness of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) approaches, although are not expected to deliver DBT interventions, rather to know when these may be required and escalate cases appropriately.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Restrictions apply to the lot award allocation.

Other Information

3. To provide family members or other identified support person(s) with education regarding how to support a person who self-harms, promote self-care and strengthen their own coping skills. The purpose of this PIN is to raise awareness of an upcoming procurement and gauge the level of interest in the provision of such services, and also to make potential Providers aware in advance of key service requirements and the introduction of Northern Ireland Procurement Policy Notes (PPN) relating to Social Value & Human Rights that will be included in any future Tender. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This PIN is intended to inform the market that the Public Health Agency (PHA) are proposing to tender for a Self-Harm Intervention Programme (SHIP), and therefore, wish to carry out pre-tender market engagement with interested Providers. In the interests of transparency and equal treatment this paper-based approach is being used i.e. publication of a Market Engagement Briefing Paper and Questionnaire. The Market Engagement Briefing Paper and Appendix 1 – Market Engagement Questionnaire, will be available on eTendersNI (https://etendersni.gov.uk) under resource ID/CfT: 4867339. Please ensure you are registered with eTendersNI under CPV Code 85000000.. Interested providers MUST submit their response to Appendix 1 - Market Engagement Questionnaire, via eTendersNI messaging service for CfT number 4867339 no later than 15:00 on 30th June 2023. It is envisaged that this tender will be advertised in 2023. Participation or not in this Engagement Process will not impact on future opportunities to tender. Replying to this engagement process does not oblige you to submit a tender, and not replying to this engagement process does not exclude from you from submitting a tender. This tender will be published on the etendersni.gov.uk website and all tender documentation including the service specification will be made available via the https://etendersni.gov.uk/ website at that time. Potential Tenderers should register on this website to ensure they have access to tender documentation when the tender is published. Note: In Section II.3 ‘Estimated date of publication of contract notice’ is estimated and is subject to change.