Children & Young People Crisis Support Service - Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB (Essex-wide)

The purpose of this notice is to inform the market that following a compliant procurement process, Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWE ICB) has awarded a contract to deliver a Children & Young People's Crisis Support Service across Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

This service is being commissioned by Herts and West Essex ICB as the lead commissioner on behalf of the county and in conjunction with Mid & South Essex integrated Care Board and Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board as associate commissioners.

The Crisis Support Service provides therapeutic support, based on the provision such as the trauma informed attachment focussed therapy model, as an example. This will enable parents and carers to adopt and maintain a therapeutic parenting approach.

The key outcomes of the service are to:

• Alleviate the stress of social isolation, concerns about managing a CYP with emotional, anxiety or other

non-MH crisis related issues

• Support families who are worried, exhausted about their CYP
• Reduce attendances at A&E for crisis
• Reduce the negative impact of life stressors on family life
• Impact measurements for each family

The initial contract is for a period of 3-years starting on 1st May 2023 with the option to extend for a further 2-years (1st May 2026 - 30th April 2028).

The submitted bid price for the 3-year period is £619,891 (excl. VAT). The value expressed within this notice is the potential total aggregate value which includes any potential options or extensions.

The Authority may wish to introduce additional services and/or expand services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modification(s)"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority and / or other Contracting Authorities, as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, the Bidder should be aware that after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the successful Bidder may be offered a variation to the contract to include services in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020).