Mental Health Support Teams in Schools (NHS GP, C&SR, WL CCGs)

Tender description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Greater Preston CCG, NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG and NHS West Lancashire CCG. This invitation to tender is for the implementation of three MHSTs in Central Lancashire (Lot 1); one MHST in West Lancashire (Lot 2) The objective of this procurement is to establish four new MHSTS across Central Lancashire and West Lancashire: 1 team in Greater Preston, 1 team in Chorley & South Ribble, 1 team with a close geographical spread across Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston, and 1 team in West Lancashire. The teams will provide extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help within educational settings. Services are required to be fully operational within 12 months of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) commencing training that is scheduled to start January 2022 so fully operational by the end of January 2023. The Contract is expected to commence in Jan 2022 following a period of mobilisation & will be in operation initially for a period of 36 months. The ITT will be live on Monday 6th September 2021 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) & it will have a deadline for submissions on Friday 1st October 202112:00pm. The deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is Friday 17th September 2021 12:00pm.