Health services

Tender description

Greater Preston and Chorley and South Ribble CCGs have commissioned a new service for a community crisis café. The café will be situated within the community it serves, and to ensure it becomes a community asset will not be situated within a statutory building. The service will be developed and evaluated by people who use its services and the local community, to ensure it becomes a valuable asset that enables people to recover from their episode of mental ill health and encourages resilience in the local population. 1 750 000 GBP total of 5 years. The service is expected to be open from 11.00-23.00 (Monday-Friday) and 12.00-23.00 (weekends and bank holidays). The service will be open every day of the year. The contract is for 3 years initially (with the option to extend for a further 2 years). The estimated maximum value of the contract is 350 000 GBP a year. VAT will not be chargeable to the commissioner and the individual bidder will be responsible for any VAT incurred. The café will be situated within the community it serves, and to ensure it becomes a community asset will not be situated within a statutory building. The service will be developed and evaluated by people who use its services and the local community, to ensure it becomes a valuable asset that enables people to recover from their episode of mental ill health and encourages resilience in the local population. — to provide a safe, welcoming and comfortable service away from a clinical environment for people in crisis, and those seeking to prevent the onset of a crisis, — to meet the needs of individuals experiencing acute emotional distress associated with a mental health problem (which may or may not have been given a formal diagnosis) with the aim of drawing on strengths, resilience and coping mechanisms to reduce the need to use crisis services in the future, — to support individuals to reduce their immediate crisis and anxiety, and to formulate a safety plan, drawing on strengths, resilience and coping mechanisms to reduce the need to use crisis services in the future, — to offer a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach to individual need, to ensure needs are responded to by appropriate services to further help the individual to build resilience. There will be a full range of services provided at The Haven by a full range of organisations through a multi-agency approach. The service is will be open from 11.00-23.00 (Monday-Friday) and 12.00-23.00 (weekends and bank holidays). The service will be open every day of the year. The contract is for 3 years initially (with the option to extend for a further 2 years). The maximum value of the contract will be 350 000 GBP a year. It is expected that within year 2 of the contract the social enterprise will be operational in a shadow form, and within year 3 fully operational. There will be up to an additional 50 000 GBP per year allocated by the CCGs to fund the premises.