Tender

Mental Health Lead for High Impact User (HIU) Service

  • Cambridgeshire County Council

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-008423

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

Published 7 March 2025, 4:47pm



Scope

Description

Cambridgeshire County Council are hosting a High Impact User (HIU) service, supporting individuals who are frequent attenders at Emergency Departments at Addenbrooke's, Hinchingbrooke and Peterborough City Hospitals. We are looking to procure Mental Health support in the form of a Mental Health Lead for the programme, through an individual or small team (maximum 4). The Mental Health Lead will be registered with a professional organisation such as BACP or UKCP, with significant experience working in in community-based settings or services, and/or with people who have complex health and social needs. They will use their expertise to support delivery of the High Impact Use programme, support the HIU Operational Team (Tier 1) to work effectively in a complex system. They will have local knowledge and or experience in HIU Service support. They must have current Professional Registration.

Total value (estimated)

  • £30,000 excluding VAT
  • £36,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026
  • Possible extension to 31 March 2027
  • 2 years

Description of possible extension:

The authority retain the right to extend the contract by a further year. This would be a one off extension.

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 98300000 - Miscellaneous services
  • 98900000 - Services provided by extra-territorial organisations and bodies

Contract locations

  • UKH12 - Cambridgeshire CC

Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)


Submission

Tender submission deadline

21 March 2025, 5:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Please find all the tender documents and question sets here: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=a1cd3f12-bdf5-ef11-8136-005056b64545

The authority will only be accepting bids through our E tendering portal.

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes


Award criteria

The bids received will be evaluated by a panel of evaluators before being moderated. There is a minimum quality threshold in which any bid receiving either a 0 (did not answer the question) or a 2 (poor response) to any question will be considered a fail. All bids that pass this stage will be assessed 100% on Price.


Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - open competition

Special regime

Light touch


Contracting authority

Cambridgeshire County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PJVB-3262-VGVJ

New Shire Hall Emery Crescent Enterprise Campus,

Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon

PE28 4YE

United Kingdom

Region: UKH12 - Cambridgeshire CC

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government