LB Newham Bereavement Services

Bereavement Services

Prior Information Notice

Short Description

A Meet the Buyer's Webinar event has been scheduled for the Bereavement Services as the council would like to share the upcoming plans for this procurement. It is intended the service will be procured this financial year with a contract start date of 1st August 2021. This is not an invitation to tender.

The primary function of the Community Bereavement Care Service is to support bereaved individuals, anticipating grief reactions and providing a variety of interventions to minimise the degree to which these effects impact on their life, health and relationships - enabling them to adapt, adjust and cope with life without the person who has died.

The outcomes to be delivered by the proposed project are:

1. Customers are better informed about practical issues related to their bereavement as a result of accessing the advice and guidance service. 2. Customers have improved mental health and emotional wellbeing as a result of accessing counselling. 3. Customers have reduced feelings of isolation and loneliness as a result of accessing the peer support service. 4. Customers report they are better adjusted, adapted and better able to cope with life after accessing the Service.

We are inviting individual organisations, partnerships or consortia to attend this Meet the Buyer's Event. Service Commissioners will provide a webinar to update the market about the strategic vision. Details of organisations attending the Events will be shared with everyone attending as well as published with Invitation to Tender documents. This is to allow organisations an opportunity to network and/or form partnerships in order to provide the Council's Supported Living and associated services. Organisations will also be given the opportunity to ask commissioners any questions. If organisations have any immediate questions then please contact Noorjahan Begum (details below) and the commissioners can address this at the Event. All questions and answers will be shared with attendees of the Events.

Estimated Value TBC

Description of the procurement: The Council intends the contract to commence on 1st August 2021 and is considering a one year contract with an extension of up to two years. It is anticipated that the tender will be published by early January 2021 through www.capitalesourcing.com

You are invited to attend a Meet the Buyer webinar event to be held as follows: - Wednesday 25th November 2020 1.30 pm - 3 pm - Please complete the registration form and return to Noorjahan Begum [email protected] by 5pm Friday 20th November 2020