Mental Wellbeing Services

The Coventry and Warwickshire Co-operative Development Agency (CDA) is the lead partner of a local partnership which is delivering the Accelerate project. These contracts have been funded by the European Social Fund and the National Lottery Community Fund and are part of the Building Better Opportunities Programme Accelerate aims to deliver a varied and holistic programme of support for people needing help to tackle barriers to employment across Coventry and Warwickshire.

The project has been delivering advice, guidance, confidence building, skills enhancements, barrier breaking and work experience to over 1000 unemployed or economically inactive people in Coventry and Warwickshire since July 2016, helping participants to overcome barriers and move towards and into employment.

More information about the project can be found at www.accelerate.org.uk

The successful bidder will be required to provide Mental Wellbeing services in South Warwickshire and Coventry.

This will include a combination of: • One to One general support sessions - maximum 12 sessions per participant • Group activities to identify mental wellbeing concerns. This may include activities to help participants to self-manage low self-esteem or anxiety and stress.

The successful bidder will also be required to recruit and support 4 volunteers to provide peer support to Accelerate Participants.

A total of £45,000 is available for this contract. The project allows a maximum 15% of total salary costs towards indirect costs (no evidence required)

We are looking for an organisation who will be able to begin work no later than 7th October 2019 and will deliver until 2nd October 2020. Applicants will be assessed using the following criteria

• Successful track record of working on similar contracts • The extent to which the proposal meets the contract requirements • Value for money All tenders will be scored. Delivery to the specification will contribute towards 70% of the score, 20% towards previous experience and 10% towards Value for money.

Tenders should include information about how you would approach the mental wellbeing support and your experience delivering similar activity in the past. Please also provide a breakdown of your costs (i.e. number of staff days, materials budget etc.)

Please provide contact details of two suitable referees who can be contacted prior to the award of the tender.

All tenders should quote the tender reference in the subject heading and be provided in writing and emailed to:

Mandy Bygrave - Operations Manager Coventry and Warwickshire Co-operative Development Agency

Email: [email protected]

CWCDA 30A Binley Road Coventry CV3 1JA

Tel: 024 7663 3911

Tenders are invited before 5pm on Wednesday 31st July 2019. Please feel free to contact us with any queries you have regarding your submission.

Interviews for successful applicants will take place on Thursday 15h August 2019.

Please refer to CDA website for more de