Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space Services

Concepts

• bedford
• finance and insurance
• consultancy services
• prior service delivery
• mental health crisis breathing space
• mental health crisis breathing space services
• breathing space
• approved mental health professional
• the maps mhcbs service
• the existing maps funded service

Location

Bedford

Description

The OrganisationMoney and Pensions Service (MaPS) vision is ‘Everyone making the most of their money and pensions’. MaPS is an arm’s-length-body, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, with a joint commitment to ensuring that people throughout the UK have guidance and access to the information they need to make effective financial decisions over their lifetime. MaPS provide people in England with information and advice on debt and MaPS is the biggest funder of free-to-client debt advice.

Total Quantity or Scope

Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space (MHCBS)Breathing Space is a HM Treasury policy which gives clients protection under legislation from creditor interest, charges, enforcement activity and collection communication, enabling them to stabilise their financial situation, engage with advice and find a solution. Since May 2021 when this policy launched MaPS commissioned a Former Supplier to deliver a service which provides people with access protection under Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space (MHCBS) and access to debt advice. MaPS seeks to commission a new service building on our learning from prior service delivery with a view to helping more people receive the benefits of MHCBS protection.The MHCBS service will be for delivery in England only; and MaPS has data (based on the existing MaPS funded service for England) that circa 130-150 clients per month are being served, as a current baseline.As a minimum the MaPS MHCBS service must offer:-Entry Point - Maximising number of eligible applications into the service (influence as far as possible).Exploration/triage - For MHCBS clients, use ability to influence to encourage engagement in Debt Advice. Application - Process MHCBS applications that are received via an Approved Mental Health Professional referrals.Debt Advice - Deliver debt advice to MHCBS clients who are both capable of engaging and who choose to do so during breathing space.Further details about the specification can be found in the Tender documentation.

Renewal Options

Up to a maximum of 24 months (12 +12)

CPV Codes

• 66000000 - Financial and insurance services
• 79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Options are available.
• Renewals are not available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

How to access the tender documents:-The competition process will be the Open procedure laid down within the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. If you are interested in bidding for this contract and wish to access the Tender documents, then interested organisations must:1. If you are not currently registered as a supplier on the MaPS E-Sourcing Portal (Atamis) then you must do so via the following link: https://atamis-maps.my.site.com/s/Welcome 2. Once registered on the MaPS Atamis portal; please search for this opportunity using the following reference number C0574 via the ‘Find Opportunities’ area within the portal.3. If you require further assistance with this matter then please email commercial@maps.org.uk and placing ‘MHCBS Tender’ in the header of the email.