Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-04-15
Buyer: London Borough of Barnet
Country: UK
Region: Outer London - West and North West
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85000000
EU fund: Recovery and Resilience

Technical requirements: London Borough of Barnet (LBB) and Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are seeking to co-develop new community Resilience based service delivery model for Children and Young Peoples Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing. This will have a contract term of at least 5 years. We believe that the aims of ‘Future in Mind 2015’ require an ambitious approach to transforming emotional wellbeing and mental health provision including CAMHS.
We plan to undertake a procurement process during 2017 and invite interest parties to participate in a ‘soft market’ engagement event on 4.5.2017. For further information and to register your interest please contact stacey.sangha@barnet.gov.uk. The deadline for registering is 28th April.
At this event we will present an outline specification for a new jointly commissioned Children and Young People Mental Health Emotional Wellbeing System.
By linking the council's and the CCG aspirations to re-design our outcomes the aim is to rebalance the emphasis of services to include more early intervention, non-medical support for a recovery and resilience based model. We wish to increase CYP-IAPT and orientate CAMHS services toward a more community-based highly-accessible model.
We plan to undertake a procurement process during 2017. Further information can be found within the Memorandum of Information which will become available once you have registered your interest for the event.
At the Market Awareness Event Barnet will inform the market about their upcoming procurement and provide an opportunity to consult with and receive feedback from potential suppliers.
This notice is not an invitation for formal expressions of interest. Barnet Council on behalf of Barnet CCG will lead on this procurement and the new contract will be funded by a pooled budget under a section 75 arrangement. We are issuing this PIN for the purpose of pre-procurement market engagement, in line with UK Government sourcing guidelines, by engagement with the market through a Market Awareness Event and market sounding sessions to be run through May/June 2017. The start of a formal procurement process for CAMHS for which a separate Contract Notice will be issued, will commence in August 2017.
In the formal procurement process to follow, applications will be invited from experienced and innovative suppliers who can provide high quality services with particular experience in the Mental and Emotional Health provider sector. We will be open to receiving responses from consortia, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other such arrangements, however, we anticipate that we will require such organisations to form a single legal entity or lead provider to contract with prior to the award of the contract and provide appropriate guarantees and security packages commensurate with the scope of services to be procured. Future services that may be procured under the contract cannot be clearly defined at this stage but will include:
Barnet has been undertaking an extensive consultation with young people, professionals and other stakeholders. This process will continue until June 2017. Key messages so far from this process include:
—Embarrassment and anxiety about admitting you have a problem is the main reason for not asking for help (Barnet Young People),
—Waiting times are too long and the system needs to be easier to navigate (Barnet G.P.’s and others),
—Develop community-based mental health wellbeing and counselling services that are readily-available to children and young people in schools and primary health care facilities.
—Optimise the use of the Thrive approach in schools to support a high level of emotional wellbeing and resilience for all young people in Barnet.
—Ensure that early help for emotional distress is readily available to young people, and that young people who are recognised as vulnerable are signposted to support without delay.
—Intervene at an earlier stage to reduce the levels of emotional distress in young people, and prevent mental health problems from escalating to the point where clinical services are required.