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title: "provision of Specialist Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically & Culturally Diverse Communities"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03f928"
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# provision of Specialist Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically & Culturally Diverse Communities

Buyer: NHS WEST YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03f928

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## Summary

The NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has completed a procurement process for the provision of Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically & Culturally Diverse Communities in Bradford. The procurement falls under the services category, with a focus on health services. The aim of the service is to deliver culturally competent mental health support that is highly responsive. The contract has been awarded to Mind in Bradford, with an active status.

This tender presents an opportunity for businesses, especially those providing specialist mental health services, to engage with the NHS for the delivery of essential community support services. The process has reached the award stage, with a contract value of £4.5 million, providing a significant opportunity for growth and collaboration. Businesses focusing on health services and catering to diverse communities are well-suited to compete in this tender.

## Notice

Specialist mental health services for ethnically and culturally diverse communities. This specification sets out how this service will continue to build on and further deliver the ambitions set by people for our services. As such, we will continue to work with our providers to further shape and transform the service and the system of support. It is expected that through the Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Communities, more people receive appropriate interventions at the right place, in a highly responsive and culturally competent manner. Our ambition is to move away from a system that is based on thresholds and tiers to enable people to access information, advice, support and care based on their needs. Working together with people accessing our services, their carers, with staff and stakeholder partners, we shared experience and expertise on understanding how we improve the support available. The result is we have adopted, and adapted, the evidence-based model called i-Thrive to provide a systemic framework for our services to support children, young people, adults and older adults to be happy, healthy at home and have agreed a series of clear guiding principles to deliver and improve our support.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Service Aims Across Bradford District and Craven, we will develop and deliver Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Communities that will: - Harness the collective will of our system to make a measurable, significant, and sustainable step change in promoting equity within mental health services. - Promote and respect mental wellbeing framing and help people experiencing mental health problems to co-design, manage and work towards recovery and fulfilment that fits with their cultural and personal beliefs and experiences. Wider aims - To deliver a person-centred service to the Bradford and Craven population, ensuring equity of access and quality of service provision. - To ensure health outcomes and improvements in wellbeing are measured at regular intervals and recorded for submission to national and local datasets. - To support the delivery of the vision and goals of Healthy Minds Strategy. - To be flexible in the delivery of services to ensure the location of services are closer to home and does not prohibit access. - To develop a strategic advisory body that support policy, good practice, and innovation in delivering equitable mental health services. Service Outcomes It is expected that through the Specialist Mental Health Support in the Community for Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Communities, more people receive appropriate interventions at the right place, in a highly responsive and culturally competent manner. Purpose - Identify priorities related to our three outcomes and overall vision - better lives, respect rights and improve support. Population - Increased access to non-mental health community support. - Strengthen representative service member and carer involvement for Healthy Minds. - Less fear and stigma of services among communities of ethnic and racial diversity of talking about and accessing mental health support. - Increased satisfaction with Healthy Minds and specialist mental health services. - Increased proportion of people who feel they have recovered from their illness. - Appropriate admission, quicker discharge of people to community, inpatient and crisis alternative support. - An increased range of effective culturally appropriate interventions such as peer support services, counselling psychotherapeutic and pharmacological engagement as well as better access to wider health and wellbeing care. Place - Increased confidence, skill, response and reflection within our workforce and less stigma. - Utilise effective measurement tools, developing new tools and building the evidence base. - Develop our partners to be a centre of excellence that supports policy, good practice, and innovation in delivering equitable mental health services. Partnership - Develop a strong collaboration and engaged leadership. - Improve communication, quality and integration of Healthy Minds services. - Better engagement with our diverse communities that influences our strategic priorities. - Support our Root out Racism campaign and other partnership campaigns that support and promote equity within health and care services. Additional information: The Services to which this Procurement relates fall within the scope of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 otherwise known as the Light Touch Regime. No terms used through this Procurement or any other indication should be interpreted to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 services

Renewal: Up to 2 years by agreement and subject to availability of funding

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002973-2024 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 29 Jan 2024 |
| Submission deadline | 17 Nov 2023 |
| Future notice date | 5 Oct 2023 |
| Award date | 8 Jan 2024 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £450,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £4,500,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS WEST YORKSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD |
| Additional buyers | NHS WEST YORKSHIRE |
| Locality | WAKEFIELD |
| Post town | Wakefield |
| Postcode | WF1 1LT |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber |
| ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire |
| ITL 3 | TLE45 Wakefield |
| Local authority | Wakefield |
| Electoral ward | Wakefield North |
| Westminster constituency | Wakefield and Rothwell |
| Delivery location | TLE41 Bradford |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MIND IN BRADFORD |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 29 Jan 2024 at 17:19 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002973-2024
- 9 Oct 2023 at 14:14 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029719-2023
- 9 Oct 2023 at 12:09 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029686-2023
- 1 Sep 2023 at 14:19 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/025864-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://nhswyicb.ukp.app.jaggaer.com
- https://nhswyicb.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/
- https://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/

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