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Published 9 Feb 2024, 12:01 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space Services

Official notice

Authority: MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable

Sectors: Financial and insurance services (66) Delivery: East of England (UKH2)South East (UKJ1)

Published estimate£4,333,000exc. VAT1.8% below published estimate

Submissions closed 19 Apr 2024awarded 28 Aug 2024

Awarded to We are Digital

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The OrganisationMoney and Pensions Service (MaPS) vision is 'Everyone making the most of their money and pensions'. MaPS is an arm's-length-body, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, with a joint commitment to ensuring that people throughout the UK have guidance and access to the information they need to make effective financial decisions over their lifetime. MaPS provide people in England with information and advice on debt and MaPS is the biggest funder of free-to-client debt advice.

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Financial and insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published

Lot #1Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space (MHCBS)AwardedPublished value£4,333,000

Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space (MHCBS) Breathing Space is a HM Treasury policy which gives clients protection under legislation from creditor interest, charges, enforcement activity and collection communication, enabling them to stabilise their financial situation, engage with advice and find a solution. Since May 2021 when this policy launched MaPS commissioned a Former Supplier to deliver a service which provides people with access protection under Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space (MHCBS) and access to debt advice. MaPS seeks to commission a new service building on our learning from prior service delivery with a view to helping more people receive the benefits of MHCBS protection. The MHCBS service will be for delivery in England only; and MaPS has data (based on the existing MaPS funded service for England) that circa 130-150 clients per month are being served, as a current baseline. As a minimum the MaPS MHCBS service must offer:- Entry Point - Maximising number of eligible applications into the service (influence as far as possible). Exploration/triage - For MHCBS clients, use ability to influence to encourage engagement in Debt Advice. Application - Process MHCBS applications that are received via an Approved Mental Health Professional referrals. Debt Advice - Deliver debt advice to MHCBS clients who are both capable of engaging and who choose to do so during breathing space.

Delivery: East of England, South East · Bedford

Extensions: 1+1Variant bids: not allowed

79400000 Business and management consultancy and related services

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more

How bids were scored

Price

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached

Procedure method: Open procedure
Legal basis: CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category: Services
Notice status: Awarded
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Standard
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: No (one-off requirement)
First published: 9 Feb 2024, 12:01 GMT
Last source update: 17 Sept 2024, 12:57 BST
Award evaluation window: 9 Feb 2024 – …
Authority reference: C0739
FTS notice number: 2024/S 000-029686
Classification (CPV): Business and management consultancy and related servicesFinancial and insurance services
Delivery area: East of England (UKH2)South East (UKJ1)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0438c2 Find a Tender

Publisher note: How to access the tender documents:- The competition process will be the Open procedure laid down within the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. If you are interested in bidding for this contract and wish to access the Tender documents, then interested organisations must: 1. If you are not currently registered as a supplier on the MaPS E-Sourcing Portal (Atamis) then you must do so via the following link: https://atamis-maps.my.site.com/s/Welcome 2. Once registered on the MaPS Atamis portal; please search for this opportunity using the following reference number C0574 via the ‘Find Opportunities’ area within the portal. 3. If you require further assistance with this matter then please email [email protected] and placing ‘MHCBS Tender’ in the header of the email.

How it was run

Official notice

Run through: Atamis (Health Family) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis

Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN

Access & registration note: Free · one account PER buying organisation portal · password resets come "from Salesforce.com" (check spam)

Submission deadline: 19 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
Submission channel: {"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages: en
Bid validity: 90 days from the deadline
Bids opened: 9 Feb 2024, 13:00 GMT

Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

atamis-maps.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ or Money and Pensions Service, Howard House, 64 St John's Street,, Bedford, MK42 0DJ., United Kingdom. NUTS code: UK. [email protected], maps.org.uk/en ↗, buyer profile: maps.org.uk/en ↗

Timeline

9 Feb 2024 → 17 Sept 2024 · 3 dates

Bids opened
9 Feb 2024, 13:00 GMT
Submission deadline
19 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
Notice published
17 Sept 2024, 12:57 BST

Notice history

2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Sept 2024

Status changed to complete
10 Sept 2024, 11:39 BST
Buyer details updated
10 Sept 2024, 11:39 BST

Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)

When	What	Before	After	Shift
—	TextV.2.3.1	https://cetma.org.uk/projects/we-are-digital/	https://www.wearegroup.com/

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £4,253,5511 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 33 from SMEs

Contracts signed 1latest 28 Aug 2024

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
We are Digital	£4,253,551 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 028926-2024-1 · We are Digital
Signed
28 Aug 2024
Value
£4,253,551
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
3bids · 3 electronic · 3 from abroad	3	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

MONEY AND PENSIONS SERVICE

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawMoney and Pension GuidanceStatutory Body 138 Cauldwell Street, Bedford, East of England, MK42 9APContact name, email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Royal Courts of JusticeReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

We are DigitalAwarded supplier Friars House, Manor House Drive, Coverntry, Cv1 2TE, Coventry, West Midlands

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.