CCSO19B35 - Provision of a Digital Wellness Platform to Cabinet Office

REQUIREMENT

The Cabinet Office (which may be referred to as 'the Authority' hereafter) is committed to fostering a culture that promotes physical and mental health and the social and financial wellbeing of its workforce.

The late Lord Jeremy Heywood, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, established a staff network dedicated to employee wellbeing in 2012. The Workwell Network was run by a group of volunteers who met regularly to raise awareness of staff wellbeing and resilience. Over a six year period, the group built momentum around topics, such as the working environment, relationship-building, productivity and job satisfaction. The Network established an annual staff health and wellbeing survey and initiated a number of support services, including a listening service run by trained volunteers. In October 2014, the Authority signed the "Time to Change" pledge to demonstrate its commitment to change how it thinks and acts about mental health in the workplace and ensures that its staff feel supported if they have mental ill health.

The Network's achievements were recognised in 2018, when the Authority integrated staff health and wellbeing into its HR function and created a dedicated full-time post to implement and support the Network's recommendations. In November 2018, the Authority launched its "Approach to Wellbeing" strategy. This included mental health, physical activity, social and financial wellbeing. Based on data about the Authority's staff, the strategy outlined three key priorities. These are:

Ways of Working - equipping our people with a great working environment, the right tools, resources and flexible support to build a happy and healthy workforce.

Healthy You - ensuring our people take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. We see our people holistically, as whole individuals, and we understand that they will face a variety of challenges throughout their time at work.

Visible Leaders and Capable Managers - prioritising the health and wellbeing agenda at a senior leadership level and visibly demonstrating through their actions that it is a Cabinet Office priority. Leaders and managers will be held accountable for the wellbeing of their teams through revised performance management steps.

In addition to the holistic strategy, the Cabinet Office also launched a specific mental health action plan in January 2019. This was a positive way to respond to the 3800 working days lost due to mental ill health in 2018, which is the equivalent of 11% of all recorded sickness absence.

To support the action plan and wider strategy, the Cabinet Office is looking to introduce a digital wellness platform that enables staff to track and improve their own mental and physical wellbeing in areas such as stress, anxiety, focus and sleep. The full specification can be found in the Attachment 3 - Statement of Requirements.

Additional information: Potential Providers must first be registered on the Crown Commercial Service e-Sourcing Suite in order to respond to the Procurement. If you have not yet registered on the e-Sourcing Suite, this can be done online at https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk following the link 'I am a New Supplier User'.

Please note that, to register and to enable any subsequent contract award, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering. Potential Providers should note that it could take up to 10 working days to obtain a DUNS number.

Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at:

http://gps.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/i-am-supplier/respond-tender

Once you have registered on the eSourcing tool, you will be able to express your interest in this specific procurement. Your registered user will receive a notification email to alert them once this has been done.

Note: If you require additional users from your organisation to see the Invitation to Tender ITT, do not repeat the registration process as this will create a new separate organisation account; instead the registered user can add additional users to the existing supplier organisation account via "User Management" > "Manage Users" > "Users" > "Create".

To express your interest in this procurement:

1. Login to the eSourcing Suite portal;
2. On the dashboard select the link ITTs open to all suppliers;
3. On the "ITTs Open to All Suppliers" webpage you will see one or more procurements listed, click on the procurement name you wish to access;
4. Click on 'Express Interest' at the top of the next screen;
5. You can now access the published documents in the eSourcing Suite portal.

It is advised however that Potential Providers register as soon as practically possible in order to have a sufficient amount of time to respond.

For technical assistance on use of the e-Sourcing Suite please contact the Customer Service Centre:

Telephone: 0345 410 2222

Email: eEnablement@crowncommercial.gov.uk