Men's Crisis House in Bristol

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board ("BNSSG") and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust ("AWP") have awarded a contract to Rethink Mental Illness under the Public Contract Regulation 2015, for a Men's Crisis House to deliver and evaluate an 8-10 bedded non-clinical crisis house for men and trans men aged 18+ who would otherwise require and acute stay, and includes both men avoiding an admission and men who may need a stay as part of a step down from an inpatient stay.

This service forms part of the BNSSG crisis pathway. The service will be delivered by the successful provider but will require close partnership with AWP crisis and community teams.

The aims of the service are:

• To support people experiencing crisis to avoid admission to an inpatient bed
• To support people waiting for onward accommodation to step down from inpatient care as soon as possible, providing the benefits of a less restrictive environment and enabling people to maintain their social networks and activities of daily living skills
• To support the BNSSG system to maintain flow through the acute pathway maximising acute bed capacity and helping to keep people who do need acute beds within BNSSG

The contract term is 7 years plus an optional extension of up to 2 years.

The contract value will be £520,000 per annum. An additional £100,000k will be available in year one only for set up costs making the total value or £4.78 million over the full 9 year period.

This process has been managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner(s). Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).