Hertfordshire and West Essex Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) IAPT Therapies Market Engagement Event

Hertfordshire and West Essex Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are holding a pre-procurement market engagement event for providers of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services. This is to engage with commissioners in discussions about meeting the opportunities and requirements as set out in the Mental Health Five Year Forward view and beyond:

We are specifically seeking providers with a track record or growth ambition in delivering services to a similar volume of access target as our individual CCGs or our Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) as a whole.

West Essex CCG also have a separate contract outside of the Mental health contract to deliver IAPT services. This contract is coming to an end in July 2020, therefore we would also like to take the opportunity to test market interest, capacity and capabilities in delivering the wider service in addition to those points listed above. The feedback from this will be utilised to inform the future commissioning intentions for these services.

We recognise the value in partnerships to deliver a range of IAPT interventions and welcome the presence of all types of providers.

Any provider wishing to attend can find full details and register to attend using the following link:

http://www.supplyhertfordshire.uk/

The event is being held on Monday 4th June at:

County Hall

Peg's Lane

Hertford

SG13 8DQ

Each interested provider will be issued a One hour time slot to speak to the commissioners. This can be done either in person or via tele/video conference. Slots will be allocated following the deadline

Additional information: Our Sustainability Transformation Partnership consists of three CCGs; East and North Herts, Herts Valleys and West Essex. Across our STP we provide services for 29, 7078 people, in 16/17 we delivered IAPT services to 26,565 people achieving both the recovery and wait time targets. Further information on the existing pathways, demographics and service performance is found in the supplementary information (appendix one: Performance Data and Service Information, Appendix two: Pathways) via the tendering portal.

Once registered on the e-tendering portal, suppliers will have access to a questionnaire that they are asked to complete in advance of their meeting with Commissioners. The deadline for registration is 5pm on Tuesday 22nd May. The questionnaire will need to be submitted via the portal by no later than midday (12:00)noon on Friday 1st June 2018.