PH 4397 Mental Health Recovery & Wellbeing Service and Recovery College

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) is seeking expressions of interest from interested organisations for the above services and / or goods.

Description:

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) and NHS Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) aims to improve outcomes for individuals with mental health problems by supporting people into work, vocational, learning and personal development activities according to personal wellbeing goals. This will have a positive impact for individuals and the wider health and social care economy by reducing avoidable and prolonged reliance on statutory social care and health systems, and reduction of negative health and social outcomes associated with poor mental health.

LBTH are seeking to secure provision of services under two lots as follows:

Lot 1: Mental Health Recovery & Wellbeing Service

• a)Single Point of Access and Short Term Support
• b)Co-production, user involvement and peer support
• c)Longer Term 1:1 Support and Group Support Programme
• e)Work and Wellbeing Hub
• f)Community Engagement/BME Inclusion

Lot 2: Recovery College

The requirement is for an educational based approach to mental health to be provided across the Borough. LBTH wishes to contract with a lead provider to enable a Recovery College for Tower Hamlets to be co-delivered through cross sector partnership working using community venues across the Borough. This represents a long standing ambition in Tower Hamlets with the requirement for the Recovery College (Lot 2) to be fully integrated within the Recovery & Wellbeing Service

The Council is committed to improving the quality of life for both residents and businesses within Tower Hamlets. In line with The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the authority will consider how this procurement might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the relevant area. In order to achieve this, it is our objective to work with existing and future contractors to secure an appropriate level of community benefits through the procurement process. Detailed guidance and minimum levels of the economic and community benefit applicable to this tender will be available within the tender documentation.

The anticipated contract start date is: Monday, 04 July 2016

The estimated value of the contract is;

Lot 1 - Recovery & Wellbeing Service: £1.1m - £1.2m Per Annum

Lot 2 - Recovery College: £230k Per Annum

For a period of: 3 years

Organisations wishing to express their interest are requested to register on the London Tenders Portal (www.londontenders.org) where the tender documentation will be available for download.

Organisations must ensure that access to the system is available to their representatives dealing with the contract. The council will not be liable for the lack of delegated access within the organisation and will not send any documentation regarding the contract, which shall be exclusively available thr