--- title: "Mental Health Prevention Programme - Community engagement/capacity building" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST" published: "2020-06-22" --- # Mental Health Prevention Programme - Community engagement/capacity building Buyer: GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-b895a8eb-bd6c-4610-8c83-6013b735924e.json) ## Summary The procurement process is being conducted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust for a project titled "Mental Health Prevention Programme - Community engagement/capacity building." This initiative falls under the health industry category and is aimed at enhancing community mental health support in London. Currently in the planning stage, the tender is scheduled to transition to the tender phase, with a future notice expected on 30th June 2020, and the contract planned to commence on 3rd August 2020, lasting until 31st March 2021. The total budget for this project is set at £100,000, with a minimum value of £70,000, utilising an open procedure for procurement methods. This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses focused on community outreach, mental health, and social services, especially those within the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations. Companies capable of implementing engaging community initiatives, working collaboratively with local stakeholders, and delivering comprehensive mental health support programmes will be particularly suited to compete. The requirement for a strategic community partner to drive grassroots engagement opens pathways for innovative approaches in mental health awareness and support, responding to the growing needs post-Covid-19. ## Notice Smart Together is a function provided by Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust to provide procurement functions to fellow NHS Trusts. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust through its Mental Health Prevention Programme has a requirement for Community engagement/capacity building. This requirement is to develop a programme of mental health community capacity building across South London. We are now looking to appoint a lead strategic community partner to undertake a listening campaign across all of South London, to help understand what people need support with and then to develop and lead a deep 12-month engagement and capacity building programme in our local communities that will raise awareness of mental wellbeing in the face of Covid-19. The lead partner will be responsible for creating and maintaining an infrastructure of community support networks, run by volunteer community mental health champions. The lead partner will co-ordinate and host a series of digital events, seminars and summits, in partnership with a new mental health taskforce that is being established. The partner would be required to: * Undertake comprehensive grassroots listening (research) campaign to identify the challenges and the solutions that people would want to see developed. * Work with the Mental Health Prevention Taskforce to develop and implement a 12 month action plan based on the needs of the community groups engaged through the listening campaign * Host and organise a digital mental health event every month with key stakeholders including statutory and third sector leaders and community organisations focussing on the key themes that have emerged from the summit * To develop a mental health champions programme so that each community group (minimum of 100) has at least one person who can sign post to mental health support and lead the group * Community organising methodology to ensure post lock down there is a strategy and team that has the tools and know how to engage hard to reach individuals * Ensure the involvement of local schools during and beyond the lockdown period with an online activity plan * Holding a schools' mental health symposium during October 2020 * Working to create an online resource pack for schools based on existing information. * Create a programme of digital interventions working with the Mental Health Prevention Taskforce and SLaM clinicians * Clearly demonstrate a strong methodology around the creation of an infrastructure of community support systems and the sustainability plan for these groups well after the 12-month programme has ended. Additional information: if you would like to be notified of this tender when it is published please email the above contact with your email details. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f7357fc0-df1e-41e5-9ada-6d55ec56eeda | | Notice type | Planned Procurement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure (below threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 22 Jun 2020 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 29 Jun 2020 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 2 Aug 2020 - 31 Mar 2021 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £100,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South East London | | Postcode | SE1 9RT | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark | | Local authority | Southwark | | Electoral ward | London Bridge & West Bermondsey | | Westminster constituency | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | | Delivery location | TLI London | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85322000 - Community action programme - 85323000 - Community health services ## Release History - 22 Jun 2020 at 11:16 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f7357fc0-df1e-41e5-9ada-6d55ec56eeda ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f7357fc0-df1e-41e5-9ada-6d55ec56eeda 22nd June 2020 - Future opportunity notice on Contracts Finder ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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