18/1016 Mental Health and Wellbeing Services

The council is going out to tender for a contract to provide Mental Health Services in Moray, this tender will be divided into two lots:

Lot 1 – High-level Community Support 18-65 years

Lot 2 – Lower-level Community Support 18+ years

This is an intensive recovery service which also provides high level community support and a recovery outreach service. It is for those requiring support through secondary care. There are currently 1408 people open to receive adult secondary care services. But this is not the number expected to be supported within this lot. The service volume for Lot 1 is approximately 500 hours per week of support.. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

The Moray Council are a full member in the Supplier Development Programme http://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/home.aspx which provides a range of specialist business support activities including the provision of advice, information and training support including webinars with the aim of assisting businesses to become more capable of accessing and competing for public sector contracts.

The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:

The services for each lot can allow for a small percentage of sub-contracting but its not mandatory and may not be needed or required

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

Moray Council have included a technical question regarding community benefits.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 27807. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:

The services for each lot can allow for a small percentage of sub-contracting but its not mandatory and may not be needed or required

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

We have included a question in the technical envelope around community benefits.