Official UK procurement notice
Post-Graduate Diploma (PgDip) Specialist Mental Health Paramedic
Authority: West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWMAS are seeking to introduce and develop a new paramedic development and career pathway to enable a specialism in mental health crisis care within the pre-hospital ambulance setting which will see paramedics working autonomously as mental health professionals. In doing so it has identified a requirement for formal education and qualification, provided by a UK Higher Education Institution, to ensure that clinicians have sufficient knowledge to support specialist clinical practice.
CPV: Adult and other education services · Adult-education services at university level · Higher education services · Medical education services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS), working in…Published value£110,000
West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS), working in partnership with West Midlands Integrated Care Boards, is committed to delivering improvements in the delivery of care to patients presenting with mental health needs. The NHS Long Term Plan identifies an intent to both further ambulance clinicians understanding of mental health and introduce mental health response vehicles. In delivering against the above national strategic objections, WMAS are seeking to introduce and develop a new paramedic development and career pathway to enable a specialism in mental health crisis care within the pre-hospital ambulance setting which will see paramedics working autonomously as mental health professionals. In doing so it has identified a requirement for formal education and qualification, provided by a UK Higher Education Institution, to ensure that clinicians have sufficient knowledge to support specialist clinical practice.
The Authority (WMASUNHSFT) is procuring a single supplier for the provision of delivering a Post-Graduate Diploma (PgDip) Specialist Mental Health Paramedic qualification. This will be for seventeen (17) staff 'students’ with the option to increase in future with the needs of the Authority.
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- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
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
- Closed
- 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
- 2 Oct 2023, 16:07 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2023, 16:07 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 13 Nov 2023 – …
- Authority reference
0559-23-W- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-029010- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 13 Nov 2023, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 720 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 13 Nov 2023, 12:01 GMT
Timeline
2 Oct 2023 → 13 Nov 2023 · 3 dates- Notice published2 Oct 2023, 16:07 BST
- Submission deadline13 Nov 2023, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened13 Nov 2023, 12:01 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria