Provision of Safeguarding Support for Covid-19 Inquiry
Estimated value
£7.6m
Awarded value
—
Suppliers
0
Lots
3
Published
24 Jul 2023
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Description
Crown Commercial Service, intends to put in place contracts for the provision of Emotional Support service for use by the Covid 19 Inquiry. The Inquiry has pledged to be trauma-informed across all of its work. A trauma informed approach means seeking to reduce the risk of retraumatisation to people who are engaging with the Inquiry. Emotional support is one of the key ways of reducing retraumatisation by offering timely, sensitive, psychologically informed emotional support to people engaging with the Inquiry’s work. Emotional support is not counselling or therapy. The focus is on facilitating the person’s engagement with the Inquiry, creating support plans, facilitating stabilisation, providing psychological containment and facilitating the person’s journey through their engagement process. The contracts shall provide the offer of emotional support for everyone engaging with the Inquiry, divided into 3 separate Lots: Lot 1 Digital emotional support service with accessible offer for ALL Lot 2 Phone based and face to face emotional support Lot 3 Staff-related tender for reflective practice, 1:1 emotional support for staff and training rollouts
Scope
- Reference
- RM6355
- Total value
- £7,645,650 excluding VAT
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
The initial contract term will be for 24 months with the option to extend the contract for 2 separate periods of up to 12 months, a maximum overall contract term of 4 years (2+1+1).
- Main category
- services
- CPV classifications
- 8531231085312320796330008051100080570000
- Contract locations
- UK
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | 70 | quality | — |
| — | 30 | price | — |
Lots · 3 total
Divisions of the contract. Each lot can be awarded separately.
| Lot | Title | Est. value | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Digital emotional support service with accessible offer for ALL (phone call equiv to texts) | £4.5m | planned |
| 2 | Phone based and face to face emotional support | £3.0m | planned |
| 3 | Staff-related tender for reflective practice, 1:1 emotional support for staff and training rollouts | £142k | planned |