Notice Information
Notice Title
Employee Assistance Programme
Notice Description
The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise in order to set up a contract for the provision of the Employee Assistance Programme. The contract will run from the 1st August 2024 for three (3) years until 31st July 2027. At the end of the first three years, the University will have an option to extend for a further two years in twelve month increments. This is subject to satisfactory performance of the contract. All University policies and regulations relating to information, security, data management, systems and service, will apply to all contracts resulting from this tender. The contractor will provide the service using qualified staff to provide support and guidance to University staff. Update: Following a review of the Invitation to Tender documentation and the specification, the University of Hertfordshire has elected to abort this tender exercise to refine these elements further.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The contractor will provide the service using qualified staff to provide support and guidance to University staff. The service will include (but is not limited to):- One off (ad-hoc) telephone or e-counselling.- Structured telephone counselling (STC).- Structured e-counselling (SEC).- Online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).- Structured face to face counselling (F2F).- Legal information.- Financial information.- Debt information.- Health and Wellbeing information.- Trauma management consultancy.- Management/staff helpline.
Renewal: This will be retendered at the end of the contract
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0454ca
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016348-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85147000 - Company health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £200,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £200,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 May 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 24 May 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 23 May 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Cancelled
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Unsuccessful
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME
- Contact Name
- Procurement
- Contact Email
- procurement-professionalservices@herts.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- HATFIELD
- Postcode
- AL10 8NE
- Post Town
- St Albans
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH26 North and East Hertfordshire
- Delivery Location
- TLH23 Hertfordshire CC
-
- Local Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Electoral Ward
- Hatfield South West
- Westminster Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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