Provision of Changing Lives - Mental Health Support Teams in Schools for NHS Derby & Derbyshire CCG

Description

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (formerly Clinical Commissioning Group) invited suitably qualified and experienced providers to express interest in delivering Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in Schools by responding to the opportunity as required and described in the published tender documentation. NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU (AGCSU) acted as an agent for and on behalf of the Commissioner and is supporting the procurement process. The service was a Schedule 3 Service and procured under the Light Touch Regime (LTR) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The process was a one stage open process. MHST deliver evidence-based interventions, for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing needs, they support senior mental health leads in education settings to work collaboratively supporting a whole-school or whole-college approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing and provide timely advice to staff. As a result of this procurement exercise an agreement was established with the successful Bidder(s) for a period of 2 years and 4 months with the Commissioner having the option to extend the Contract for up to a further 2 years at their discretion. The timeframes for delivery are below; • 01st September 2022 to 31st December 2022 - Recruitment period for wave 8 and mobilisation period for waves 2, 4 and 8 • 01st January 2023 to 31st December 2026 (inclusive 2-year extension period) continuation wave 2 and wave 4; commence wave 8 • Wave 10 - 01st September 2023 to 31st December 2023 recruitment; 01st January 2024 to 31st December 2026 delivery (inclusive 2-year extension period) There was a financial threshold associated with this procurement. Any bids exceeding £14,858,950 for the lifetime of the contract were to be excluded from evaluation and disqualified from the process. No bids over £14,858,950 were to be accepted. Full details of the service were included as part of the documentation within the project on EU-Supply.

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