Eating Disorder Training in South West

Health Education England are putting out this notice as a PIN with a view to completing a Direct Award to Exeter University.

The case for direct award can be found on the tender portal.

HEE is seeking a provider to appoint a provider to deliver training and support across the seven (7) Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in the South West:

Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW), Dorset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG), Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly HEE believes that it is highly unlikely for any other supplier to be able to provide the following skills/tools provided by The University of Exeter as a supplier for the following reasons:

HEE believes that no other provider, including South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, would have sufficient capacity to deliver the training for southwest services as the Trust has been unable to meet the recent increase in national demand for the Maudsley Approach.

If University of Exeter is unable to deliver this training during 2022/23, the demand across the southwest will not be met and the valuable skills will not be delivered to eating disorder services.

The duration of the Direct Award is to 31st March, 2023.

All communications should be made via the messaging function on the Health Family eTendering portal.

If any provider has concerns with the commissioning intentions outlined within the published documentation, please raise this via the eTendering Portal in the first instance within 30 days of the date of this Prior Information Notice.

The financial envelope for this PIN is £39,000

The closing date of this PIN is midday on 28th December 2022