Mental Health Support Teams North East Essex

The NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (the "Commissioners") are issuing this Contract Notice in connection with the competitive procurement of the Mental Health Support Teams North East Essex locality. The Commissioners are looking to establish contracts to cover the service, for a period 5 years and 3 months with the possibility of extending the term for a period 2 years.

The anticipated aggregate contract value is £11,513,000.00 across the potential 7 years and 3 months.

There are currently three MHSTs in schools in North East Essex with a further expansion of Wave 10 and an additional team in Jan 2024. The teams are located in North East Essex and the Commissioners are looking to build on the success of the existing schemes working within schools. The teams utilise local channels to ensure we are addressing inequalities, identify vulnerable children, children in need with consideration to ethnic diversity. Our broader ambition is to double the number of MSHTs in North East Essex; we have already identified a number of schools to take part in the next phase.

The North East Essex MHSTs provide support across Colchester City and Tendring District area's covering Clacton and Tendring, Colchester, Harwich and Manningtree serving a population of approximately 62,773 CYP with an estimated prevalence of any MH disorder at 18.56%. 23 schools and colleges have already signed up to the programme with further schools interested.

The North East Essex MHST programme targets those schools in the North East Essex in high deprivation areas. The MHSTs develop and implement the stepped care approach for mental health, so that the most effective, yet least resource intensive treatment or intervention is delivered to the CYP first, whilst helping those YP with more severe needs to access the right support, and to provide a link/onward referral to local specialist NHS CYP MH services where needed.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please express an interest on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/snee-icb/aspx/Home. Register or login to In-tend and then select the tenders (current) tab, select the Mental Health Support Teams North East Essex and click on express interest. This will register your interest and you will be access the Procurement Documentation. The closing date for submissions is 12:00 (noon) 9th June 2023.

Additional information: The Services to which this Procurement relate fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020). As such, the procurement of the Services is to be conducted as a bespoke process akin to the Open procedure, involving stages which are outlined within the suite of procurement documents. The Authority does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.

The Authority may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time.

Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. The contract may be amended in terms of the original services supplied, where, following assessment it is identified that it is logical for additional services to be delivered in conjunction with this contract and by the provider, both in terms of actual service delivery and to avoid duplication of costs.

These services may include but are not limited to other services and specialities formally delivered in integrated care system where it is foreseen that these services can be delivered more effectively as part of this contract. in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020).