Published date: 11 September 2017

Last edited date: 11 September 2017

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Approach to market date: 22 September 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Community health services - 85323000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£0 to £882,090

Procurement reference

GWCCG-MHAdvisory

Published date

11 September 2017

Approach to market date

22 September 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG (GWCCG) currently commission specialist support and advice for individuals with a diagnosed mental health illness across a number of localities in Surrey, with an annual value of circa £176K.
The aims and objectives of the service are:
• To improve the quality of life for adults with a mental health illness through access to a specialist service tailored to the client group, providing free, independent, confidential and impartial advice for people who due to their illness are inhibited from using general advisory services at that point in time.
• Support, educate and raise awareness to ensure people with mental health problems are appropriately supported within 'mainstream' advisory services.
• Obtain additional and appropriate benefits for the clients, to assist independence, support hospital discharge and support their recovery.
• Manage and reduce the debt burden of clients with a mental illness.
• Support resolution of housing or employment issues that may have a negative impact on their independence and mental well-being.
• Raise local and national awareness of the types of problems encountered by clients of the service.
• Reduce anxiety and stress by ensuring that clients that would benefit from advisory support are able to access an advisor, or supported to do so, prior to escalation of their issues having a detrimental effect on their mental health.
The contracts are due to expire on 31st March 2018. GWCCG is undertaking a market engagement exercise to inform its approach to the re-commissioning of these services. The object of the exercise is to understand market willingness and capacity to bid to provide these services commencing from 1st April 2018.
GWCCG reserves the right to use responses to this Market Engagement exercise to inform whether or not it chooses to undertake a competitive procurement for these services, or whether it will award the contract to the incumbent providers.

More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2018/2019 £176,418
2019/2020 £176,418
2020/2021 £176,418
2021/2022 £176,418
2022/2023 £176,418

Attachments

Additional text

Organisations interested in providing Mental Health Advisory and Support services are requested to complete the attached questionnaire and return to greg_reide@nhs.net by 5pm on 22nd September 2017.
GWCCG reserves the right to use responses to this Market Engagement exercise to inform whether or not it chooses to undertake a competitive procurement for these services, or whether it will award the contract to the incumbent providers. 

About the buyer

Address

Halyard Court, 31 Broadway
Salford
M50 2YR
England

Email

greg_reide@nhs.net