CN250246 - Proposed Therapeutic Support Service for Children and Young People

  • Kent County Council

F14: Notice for changes or additional information

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-003065

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04d6cb

Published 30 January 2025, 10:48am



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

Kent County Council

County Hall

Maidstone

ME14 1XQ

Contact

Ms Hannah Durling

Email

Hannah.durling@kent.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 3000421154

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKJ4 - Kent

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.kent.gov.uk

Buyer's address

http://www.kent.gov.uk


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

CN250246 - Proposed Therapeutic Support Service for Children and Young People

Reference number

DN759960

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85312320 - Counselling services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Prior Information Notice: Market Engagement – proposed Children and Young People’s Therapeutic Support Service

** This advert is for market engagement only **

This Prior Information Notice is to invite providers to an online market engagement event on Wednesday 12th February, 15.00 – 16.00 for a proposed Therapeutic Support Service under the Procurement Act 2023.

The proposed Therapeutic Support Service would support children and young people aged 4-19 who have mild/moderate emotional wellbeing needs. This means children and young who may need support with difficulties such as:

• Nervousness or anxiety

• Difficulty concentrating

• Difficultly sleeping

• Avoiding school or activities

• Feeling low and not good about themselves

• Not wanting to be with friends or family.

To complement our recent Public Consultation, we would like to meet with providers to discuss an overview of our proposed service model .

We are proposing that this service will be closely aligned with the proposed Therapeutic Alliance, being commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway (Kent Children & Young People’s Therapeutic Alliance Market Engagement - Find a Tender), to support children and young people with predominantly moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health needs.

We would like to invite providers to an initial online market engagement event, to be held on

Wednesday12th February, 15.00 – 16.00.

This will be an opportunity to learn more about the proposed model and procurement timelines and to share initial questions and feedback, prior to the full Specification being published.

To book on to this market engagement session please contact to Mhairi.Tynan@kent.gov.uk with “Market Engagement – proposed Children and Young People’s Therapeutic Support Service” as the email subject by Monday 10th February, 17.00.

Subject to a Key Decision planned for March 2025, we plan to hold a further market engagement event in-person during the week commencing 26th March 2025.


Section six. Complementary information

six.6) Original notice reference

Notice number: 2025/S 000-002863


Section seven. Changes

seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice

Section number

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Prior Information Notice: Market Engagement – proposed Children and Young People’s Therapeutic Support Service

** This advert is for market engagement only **

This Prior Information Notice is to invite providers to an online market engagement event on Thursday 12th February, 15.00- 16.00 for a proposed Therapeutic Support Service under the Procurement Act 2023.

The proposed Therapeutic Support Service would support children and young people aged 4-19 who have mild/moderate emotional wellbeing needs. This means children and young who may need support with difficulties such as:

• Nervousness or anxiety

• Difficulty concentrating

• Difficultly sleeping

• Avoiding school or activities

• Feeling low and not good about themselves

• Not wanting to be with friends or family.

To complement our recent Public Consultation, we would like to meet with providers to discuss an overview of our proposed service model .

We are proposing that this service will be closely aligned with the proposed Therapeutic Alliance, being commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway (Kent Children & Young People’s Therapeutic Alliance Market Engagement - Find a Tender), to support children and young people with predominantly moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health needs.

We would like to invite providers to an initial online market engagement event, to be held on

Thursday 12th February, 15.00 – 16.00.

This will be an opportunity to learn more about the proposed model and procurement timelines and to share initial questions and feedback, prior to the full Specification being published.

To book on to this market engagement session please contact to Mhairi.Tynan@kent.gov.uk with “Market Engagement – proposed Children and Young People’s Therapeutic Support Service” as the email subject by Monday 10th February, 5pm.

Subject to a Key Decision planned for March 2025, we plan to hold a further market engagement event in-person during the week commencing 26th March 2025.

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Prior Information Notice: Market Engagement – proposed Children and Young People’s Therapeutic Support Service

** This advert is for market engagement only **

This Prior Information Notice is to invite providers to an online market engagement event on Wednesday 12th February, 15.00 – 16.00 for a proposed Therapeutic Support Service under the Procurement Act 2023.

The proposed Therapeutic Support Service would support children and young people aged 4-19 who have mild/moderate emotional wellbeing needs. This means children and young who may need support with difficulties such as:

• Nervousness or anxiety

• Difficulty concentrating

• Difficultly sleeping

• Avoiding school or activities

• Feeling low and not good about themselves

• Not wanting to be with friends or family.

To complement our recent Public Consultation, we would like to meet with providers to discuss an overview of our proposed service model .

We are proposing that this service will be closely aligned with the proposed Therapeutic Alliance, being commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway (Kent Children & Young People’s Therapeutic Alliance Market Engagement - Find a Tender), to support children and young people with predominantly moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health needs.

We would like to invite providers to an initial online market engagement event, to be held on

Wednesday 12th February, 15.00 – 16.00.

This will be an opportunity to learn more about the proposed model and procurement timelines and to share initial questions and feedback, prior to the full Specification being published.

To book on to this market engagement session please contact to Mhairi.Tynan@kent.gov.uk with “Market Engagement – proposed Children and Young People’s Therapeutic Support Service” as the email subject by Monday 10th February, 17.00.

Subject to a Key Decision planned for March 2025, we plan to hold a further market engagement event in-person during the week commencing 26th March 2025.