HCC April 2022 - PPME for Suicide Bereavement Service

Tender description

Hertfordshire County Council (the ‘Council’) is carrying out Pre-Procurement Market Engagement (‘PPME’) in relation to a Suicide Bereavement Service.The Council will consider the feedback received to help inform the Council’s options and further decision making. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in the PPME shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the PPME shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process. Participation in the PPME will be at each organisation’s own cost. No expense in responding to this PPME will be reimbursed by the Council. Lot 1: HCC are doing PPME for a Suicide Bereavement Service. NHS England have provided Suicide Prevention Transformation funding through the Wave Programmes to the ICSs. Hertfordshire and West Essex have received funding for Wave 4 of the programme from 2021/22 for 3 years. NHS England have also provided Suicide Postvention Transformation funding to the ICSs and Hertfordshire and West Essex will receive postvention funding from 2022/23 for 2 years.The postvention funding of £61,000 per annum will enable the development of a suicide specific bereavement provision across Herts and West Essex that will allow capacity to be built locally to provide support both immediately after a death by suicide and over time.This support will be available to those who have been affected by the death, including the family of the deceased, friends, carers, and professionals. Support will also be available to those bereaved by a historic suicide.Further details can be found in the PPME Document.