Mental Health Support Teams in Schools (NHS Morecambe Bay CCG)

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Morecambe Bay CCG. This invitation to tender is for three Mental Health Support Teams in schools, in the Morecambe Bay area.

The objective of this procurement is to identify a provider who will run the existing MHST service currently within Morecambe Bay with one MHST covering Morecambe and Heysham school system and a further team covering the Barrow Peninsular High Schools. To also further establish one new MHST within Morecambe Bay working across High Schools. New services are required to be fully operational within 12 months of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) commencing training that is scheduled to start September 2022 for Wave 7, the new team is expected to be fully operational by the end of September 2023.

The teams will provide extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help within educational settings.

The population covered by the service includes all children and young people aged 5-18 years who are on roll at an educational setting that has signed up to take part in the programme. It also includes those children within the geography covered by the MHSTs whether or not they are on a school roll.

The total value of the contract is a maximum £5,327,590 over 5 years (£911,590 for 3 teams from 1/9/2022-31/8/2023, then £1,104,000 per year until 31/8/2027)

The Contract is expected to commence in September 2022 following a period of mobilization & will be in
operation initially until 31/8/2025 with a maximum contract value of £3,119,590. Years 4 & 5 will only be commissioned following a 12 month notification being served by the commissioner on or before 31/8/2024 with a maximum contract value of £1,104,000 per annum.

The ITT will be live on Friday 10th December 2021 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) & it will have a deadline for submissions on Friday 14th January 2022 12:00pm.

The deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is Wednesday 5th January 2022 12:00pm.

Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest & gain access to this procurement's documents & more specific information.

The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget.

Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.