Published date: 5 September 2018

This notice was replaced on 19 September 2018

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Opportunity (published 19 September 2018, last edited 19 September 2018)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£15,000

Procurement reference

LGSS001-DN363610-66024436

Published date

5 September 2018

Closing date

25 September 2018

Contract start date

1 October 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The rate of deaths by suicide is 9.1 per 100,000 (3 year average, 2013-15) in Cambridgeshire, equating to 155 deaths across the 3 years. By 2020/21, the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health set the ambition that the number of people taking their own lives will be reduced by 10% nationally compared to 2016/17 levels. Locally there is an ambition to strive for 'Zero Suicides'.
A range of work is being undertaken locally to prevent deaths by suicide, coordinated by the multi-agency suicide prevention group. Friends and relatives of people who die by suicide have a 1 in 10 risk of making a suicide attempt after their loss. A conservative estimate is that 10 people are directly affected by each suicide death. The lasting impact can be huge in terms of their own health outcomes, isolation and work/education. Research by Prof Julie Cerel found that 130 people directly knew the person with 25 of these being in a great deal of distress and needing services and support to get through intense emotions.
As part of the implementation of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Suicide Prevention Strategy a post-suicide bereavement service was set up in 2017.

About the buyer

Contact name

Holly Hodge

Address

Shire hall
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
United Kingdom

Email

holly.hodge@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.lgss.co.uk/about/