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Published 14 Jul 2022, 15:58 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Talking Therapies Support RFI

Official notice

Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)

Services
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£3,210,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 Oct 2022from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

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/><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 published
Lot #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 ↗

Delivery: UK

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)
Counselling servicesHealth services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035214 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender 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
  1. Notice published
    14 Jul 2022, 15:58 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    3 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

Department of Health and Social Care

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsHealth 39 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1H 0EUContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.