PRIOR INFORMATION NOTICE - REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

NHS Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), on behalf of West Leicestershire CCG and East Leicestershire & Rutland CCG, is considering the procurement of a new service: Mental Health Triage & Navigation Service to provide signposting, advice and support referrals to the wider emotional health and wellbeing services available for children & young people (C&YP) and families; from online self-management resources to specialist child and adolescent mental health services. It is anticipated that this will be contracted for a period of 2/3 years with the possibility of an extension (to be confirmed). Estimated value for this is circa £192k per annum. The CCG's will be commissioning the new service from December 2018 (exact date to be confirmed), which will. The purpose of the servcie is to:- • Reduce the number of referrals into CAMHS by at least 30% to enable Specialist CAMHS practitioners to focus on those C&YP requiring CAMHS assessment and treatment • Support professionals, families, carers, children, and young people to navigate across the pathway to gain timely access to the right care that meets their needs (emotional, lower level mental health and wellbeing) • Create central access for health service referrals and to improve the patient journey with timely navigation to appropriate support and interventions. • Ensuring C&YP are referred to the right service to meet their needs, accessing the full range of emotional, mental health and wellbeing services as described within our local transformation plan. The aim is to improve the patient journey to ensure C&YP are referred to the right service to meet their needs and that professionals, families, carers, C&YP are supported to navigate across the pathway, which would include :- • Online Counselling Service • Early Care and Early Help • Local Authority Emotional Health and Wellbeing Services • Early Intervention • Specialist CAMHS • Crisis & Home Treatment • Youth Justice • Looked After Children The purpose of this PIN is to understand the market's capacity and make providers award of the CCGs' intent. We would be grateful if any current providers of similar services and who may be interested in providing this service in the future to complete and submit a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ), to be completed and submitted via the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo by the stated deadline. To do that, candidates need to register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. Once registered, candidates must express interest by: a) logging-in to the Portal, and b) selecting response to advert and PQQ (search for reference number pqq_463) and submit by the date specified.