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title: "Day Opportunities - For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Market Engagement"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02e43c"
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current_stage: "Planning"
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published: "2021-09-23"
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# Day Opportunities - For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Market Engagement

Buyer: CAPITALESOURCING  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02e43c

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## Summary

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is planning a market engagement initiative titled "Day Opportunities – For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Service." This procurement, classified under social services, is in the planning stage and aims to reassess and recommission the existing services. Interested providers are invited to participate in a supplier engagement event on 30th September 2021, with registration required by 29th September 2021. The engagement will facilitate insight into market capabilities and inform a future competitive tendering process using capitalEsourcing, with activities planned to enhance community integration and user-driven service delivery.

This tender provides substantial opportunities for businesses specialising in social care services, particularly those with experience in mental health support. Companies focused on collaborative service redesign and community-based health initiatives will be well-suited to compete for this contract, as RBKC seeks innovative solutions that leverage user feedback and improve service delivery outcomes. Engaging in this process could enable businesses to expand their market presence while contributing positively to the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations.

## Notice

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) will be recommissioning Day Opportunities - For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Service. The aim of this service is to: *Ensuring the existing service users of day services are offered seamless support at the start of the contracts; *The phased move from a model that primarily funds services through block payments to one that funds people through Personal Budgets and Direct Payments with a clearer focus on inclusive meaningful activities based in the community; *How the services can be reconfigured to support the further integration of the health and care system in line with the NHS Long Term Plan that is underway, including exploring new models of cooperation and partnership working that will enable more seamless support across the whole care pathway; *Relocating some building based activities to a new accessible community hub in the North of the borough; *Using co-production to redesign new service elements with people with lived experience of SMI; *Developing the strength and asset based approach that will enable people to utilise their own resources as part of the solution to managing their health and wellbeing better; *Identifying and improving outcomes delivery to give people more choice and control over their support; encompass the user's perspective in measuring quality and performance; improve efficiency and value for money; deliver improved social value and return on investment; and reduce upstream demand on the health and care system.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Prior to commencing any formal public procurement process RBKC wish to engage with interested providers and undertake a formal market engagement. The over-all arching aim of the market engagement exercise is to establish and understand the market appetite for the Day Opportunities - For Adults with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness Service and brief suppliers on the service required by the boroughs providing an opportunity to seek feedback. Providers with experience of delivering these types of services are invited to attend a supplier engagement event on Thursday 30th September 2021 - 2pm to 3pm via TEAMS invite. Kindly register your expression of interest via pqq_WCC_1715 - Day Opportunities - Market Engagement by 29th September 2021. Additional information: This tendering exercise will be undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'capitalEsourcing' (www.capitalesourcing.com). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to express their interest in the market engagement event and participate in the following competitive exercise, please note registration is free.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023753-2021 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 22 Sep 2021 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | CAPITALESOURCING |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | West London |
| Postcode | W8 7NX |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI33 Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham |
| Local authority | Kensington and Chelsea |
| Electoral ward | Campden |
| Westminster constituency | Kensington and Bayswater |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85300000 - Social work and related services
- 85320000 - Social services

## Release History

- 23 Sep 2021 at 21:45 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023753-2021

## Notice URLs

- http://www.capitalesourcing.com

## Provenance

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