Official UK procurement notice
Talking Therapies Support RFI
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department of Health and Social Care (‘The Authority’) is seeking information on your interest, capability and capacity to provide the services and feedback on the approach to talking therapies offer.<br/><br/>The purpose of the talking therapy programme will be to provide one-to-one sessions with an accredited therapist/counsellor, for an estimated 4,200 adult social care (ASC) workers accessing up to 10 sessions who are experiencing heightened mental health issues, for example anxiety, depression and burnout. The estimated budget for this service is £3.21m over 2.5 years.
CPV: Counselling services · Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Authority is looking for a provider to provide an empathetic and non-judgemental…Planned
The Authority is looking for a provider to provide an empathetic and non-judgemental space for adult social care workers to find answers to their own problems, process experiences and deal with conditions such as stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. We want to find a provider who can provide a range of talking therapies, which could include cognitive behavioural therapy, guided self-help, counselling, counselling for depression.<br/><br/>The Department of Health and Social Care (‘The Authority’) is seeking information on your interest, capability and capacity to provide the services and feedback on the approach to talking therapies offer.<br/>This exercise is intended to provide suppliers with the opportunity to:<br/>1. express their Interest; and<br/>2. assist the Authority in drafting a Specification for the talking therapies service. This builds on a commitment to engage with the market, by sharing information and seeking input from the market providers/specialists to enable us to develop a requirement in a fair and transparent manner. Additional information: For more information please click on the link below to register your interest health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 Jul 2022, 15:58 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Jul 2022, 15:58 BST
- Authority reference
C94410- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-019308- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035214Find a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Jul 2022 → 3 Oct 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published14 Jul 2022, 15:58 BST
- Tender notice expected3 Oct 2022, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.