Crisis Beds

Tender description

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCH) are looking to procure crisis care provision for individuals experiencing mental health crisis as part of improving their crisis pathways and preventing admission into hospital. BCH are looking to commission between 4 and 6 crisis beds in total, which are required to be located in the Black Country areas of Sandwell and Dudley. This PIN invites interested organisations to attend a market engagement event with the aim of testing the viability of delivering the proposed service model and to allow providers to share their views on the specification. This PIN will also allow BCH to understand the market for this service in this area to help inform a potential future procurement process. Engagement event BCH have developed a draft specification and would like to invite organisations potentially capable of providing crisis beds to attend a market engagement event. This will allow testing of the viability of delivering the proposed service model and to allow providers to share their views on the specification. The market testing event will be held on Monday 26th June 2023 10.30 – 12 noon via MS Teams. A calendar invite will be issued to interested parties along with the draft specification, and an agenda will be issued closer to the event. If you are unable to attend but would like the opportunity to speak to us about the content of the specification, please do still contact us.