Mental Health Support Services - Brighton & Hove / West Sussex - RFI

Concepts

• hove
• health services
• mental health services
• aligned services
• psychosocial services
• mental ill health
• mental health support services
• mental health support providers
• peer support
• mental health hubs

Location

Description

Request For Information (RFI) Mental Health Support Services - Brighton and Hove / West Sussex This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to facilitate engagement with potential providers and relates only to pre-procurement market engagement. The Commissioners (NHS Sussex and Brighton and Hove City Council) are seeking the views of Mental Health Support Providers in relation to the provision of Mental Health Support Services for Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, to help inform the commissioning approach for these services from 1st October 2025. The Commissioners are considering a contract period of 5 years with an option (of the commissioner) to extend for a period of up to a further 24 months (5+2), this remains subject to further review. The current service delivers community based mental health services with an aim to provide support to promote well-being, prevent mental ill health by intervening early, and opportunities to pursue meaningful activities and avoid social isolation. These include Mental Health Hubs, Individual Placement Support, Psychosocial services targeting communities of interest, advice lines, support with debt, peer support and aligned services. This Request For Information process is designed to help the Commissioner to form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a tender exercise. A tender advertisement may be issued at the appropriate time, if required, should the Commissioner consider that the optimum route to commission the service is through a competitive procurement process.

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

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

Other Information

Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future tender submissions you may wish to offer at a later date, should the Commissioner undertake a procurement for this service. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the Request For Information (RFI) document, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit your response through Atamis. Please complete your response and return via the Atamis eTendering Portal, reference: Mental Health Support Services - Brighton and Hove / West Sussex RFI - NHS Sussex ICB: C294011 by 31st July 2024 at 5pm. Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your insight. This notice is to invite providers to participate in an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit the Authority or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties participating. The Authorities will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party participating in this exercise. It is anticipated that any future procurement process for these services is likely to fall under the Health Care Services, (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) Regulations 2023 as a 'mixed procurement'. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, (and the 'Light Touch Regime' contained therein), do not apply to these services and thus do not apply to this notice.