Invitation to tender for the Provision of Research: The Mental Health Needs of Nottingham’s Homeless Population – An exploratory Study

Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group is commissioning this research study to inform how we can best work with local partners to better meet the mental health needs of the homeless and rough sleeping population in Nottingham.

Commissioners want to better understand the issues and barriers from the perspective of the homeless population and partner organisations to be able to ensure effective commissioning to meet the needs of this population and to promote and support appropriate and timely mental health service uptake.

The research will for the most part focus on the non-statutory homeless population (homeless and rough sleeping) whilst recognising some people in this cohort may move in and out of statutory homeless status or could have been classified as such.

There are four elements to the research:

• Understanding the population: gaining a better understanding of this cohort of citizens and their mental health needs both common mental health needs and serious mental illness, including demographic data.

• Understanding the citizen story: what were the circumstances that led to their homelessness and how could homelessness have been prevented? How have their mental health needs been supported during their homelessness and what has their experience of services/support been?

• Understanding the stakeholder perspective: what are the issues in the system, what’s causing the issues and what needs to change?

• Learning from good practice: learning from what works well elsewhere in the country for this population

Additional information: How to Apply:

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise. Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register— Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue' — Enter your correct business and user details —Note the user-name you chose and click ‘Save' when complete — You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an Interest in the tender — Login to the portal with the user-name/password — Click the ‘ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are ITTs open to any registered supplier) — Click on the relevant ITT to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest' button at the top of the page. — This will move the ITT into your ‘My ITTs page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments' in the ‘ITT/ Details' box 3. Responding to the tender — Click ‘My Response' under ‘ITT Details', you can choose to ‘Create Response' or to ‘Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining) — You can now use the ‘Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the ITT — There may be a mixture of on-line and off-line actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available) You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response' button at the top of the page.