NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) early intervention and preventative emotional wellbeing and mental health services for Children and Young People (CYP) age 0 to 25 years

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB's key priority is the improvement and expansion of Early Intervention and Prevention Emotional Wellbeing and mental health services across the county of Herefordshire. This will:

• Increase provision for children and young people to access support and interventions
• Improve equity of provision across both counties
• Extend support at the early intervention and preventative services to children and young adults aged 0-25 (up to the day before their 25th birthday).
• Reduce reliance on schools/colleges to make the referrals and introduce flexibility to reach vulnerable children and young people not currently accessing services due to reasons such as complex needs or not attending school.

The new service will:

• Proactively target those children and young people 0-25 years who do not meet the Specialist CAMHS or adult mental health services thresholds and offer early intervention support to young people who are hard to engage.
• Provide a range of forums and venues to offer children, young people, families and professionals an appropriate first point of contact.
• Work collaboratively with other providers and agencies to continually market the service and ensure the service is universally known about, joined up, whilst working with the targeted vulnerable groups of children and young people.
• Continuous engagement and integration with referral agencies, universal and Early Help services to not only promote the service but ensure pathways are effective.
• Use recognised assessment and evaluation tools and set clear outcome measures with children and young people accessing the service.

The successful provider must be able to submit and flow data successfully to the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) and provide assurance of this.

The total estimated lifetime value of the contract for Lot 1 (Herefordshire) is £1,781,900 for the 3 year contract plus the optional extension period of 2 years. The service commencement date is 1st April 2025.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of the contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this notice. Additional information: The ICB did not require bidders to submit bid prices. However, as part of the Part B (Value) pass/fail evaluation criteria, all bidders were requested to:

• complete a Financial Model Template per lot for information only, to show the proposed breakdown of their costs relating to the proposed service delivery
• confirm that they could provide the services (as per the Service Specification) for the lifetime of the contract, including the optional extension period (i.e., 3 years, with the option to extend for an additional 2 years with mutual consent) within the ICB's specified total financial threshold, for the Lot (or Lots) for which they were bidding. The ICB reserved the right to reject any Bids which failed this question.

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB's key priority is the improvement and expansion of Early Intervention and Prevention Emotional Wellbeing and mental health services across the county of Worcestershire. This will:

• Increase provision for children and young people to access support and interventions
• Improve equity of provision across both counties
• Extend support at the early intervention and preventative services to children and young adults aged 0-25 (up to the day before their 25th birthday).
• Reduce reliance on schools/colleges to make the referrals and introduce flexibility to reach vulnerable children and young people not currently accessing services due to reasons such as complex needs or not attending school.

The new service will:

• Proactively target those children and young people 0-25 years who do not meet the Specialist CAMHS or adult mental health services thresholds and offer early intervention support to young people who are hard to engage.
• Provide a range of forums and venues to offer children, young people, families and professionals an appropriate first point of contact.
• Work collaboratively with other providers and agencies to continually market the service and ensure the service is universally known about, joined up, whilst working with the targeted vulnerable groups of children and young people.
• Continuous engagement and integration with referral agencies, universal and Early Help services to not only promote the service but ensure pathways are effective.
• Use recognised assessment and evaluation tools and set clear outcome measures with children and young people accessing the service.

The successful provider must be able to submit and flow data successfully to the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) and provide assurance of this.

The total estimated lifetime value of the contract for Lot 2 (Worcestershire) is £5,345,700 for the 3 year contract plus the optional extension period of 2 years. The service commencement date is 1st April 2025.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of the contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this notice. Additional information: The ICB did not require bidders to submit bid prices. However, as part of the Part B (Value) pass/fail evaluation criteria, all bidders were requested to:

• complete a Financial Model Template per lot for information only, to show the proposed breakdown of their costs relating to the proposed service delivery
• confirm that they could provide the services (as per the Service Specification) for the lifetime of the contract, including the optional extension period (i.e., 3 years, with the option to extend for an additional 2 years with mutual consent) within the ICB's specified total financial threshold, for the Lot (or Lots) for which they were bidding. The ICB reserved the right to reject any Bids which failed this question.