NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Greater

Preston CCG, NHS Chorley and South Ribble CCG and NHS West Lancashire CCG. This invitation to tender is

for the implementation of three MHSTs in Central Lancashire (Lot 1); one MHST in West Lancashire (Lot 2)

The objective of this procurement is to establish four new MHSTs across Central Lancashire and West

Lancashire: 1 team in Greater Preston, 1 team in Chorley & South Ribble, 1 team with a close geographical

spread across Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston, and 1 team in West Lancashire. The teams will

provide extra capacity for early intervention and ongoing help within educational settings. Services are

required to be fully operational within 12 months of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)

commencing training that is scheduled to start January 2022 so fully operational by the end of January 2023.

NHS Chorley, South Ribble, Greater Preston and West Lancashire CCGs have been successful in funding for four

Mental Health Supports Teams for schools and colleges in the sixth wave of the Green Paper for

Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision: July 2018 builds that upon the

ambitions set out in Future in Mind (2015) and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (2016).

The Government’s response to the Consultation on Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health

Provision: a Green Paper and Next Steps (2018) ensures areas that are successful in the bid for funding go

further for children and young people who are showing early signs of distress, so that they are always able

to access the right help, in the right setting, when they need it.

The successful areas that have Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) supporting children and young people

will provide extra capacity for early intervention support within school and college settings. The three core

elements that the MHSTs will provide are:

1. Deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing issues

• 2. Support the designated senior mental health lead in each setting and

• 3. Provide timely advice to school and college staff

The Government published the NHS Long-Term Plan (2019) that re-confirmed the commitments of the

Green Paper (2018) in relation to improving mental health support in schools and colleges, stating that from

2019 NHS England (NHSE) will fund new MHSTs working in schools and colleges, building on the support

already available, which will be rolled out to between one-fifth and a quarter of the country by the end of

2023.

The Provider will deliver the MHSTs in educational settings as per the Transforming Children and Young

People’s Mental Health: Delivery of Mental Health Support Teams - Guidance Note 2019-20.

The ITT will be live on Monday 6th September 2021 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a

deadline for submissions on Friday 1st October 2021 12:00pm.

The deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is Friday 17th September 2021 12:00pm.

Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at

https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest and gain access to this procurement's documents

and more specific information. project_794 - Mental Health Support Teams in Schools (GP, C&SR, WL).

The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget.

Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with

permission from the contracting NHS body.

This invitation to tender is based on two lots covering the geographical areas as detailed below:

Lot 1- three MHSTs in Central Lancashire (Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble)

Lot 2 - one MHST in West Lancashire

Bidders will be asked to complete the technical questionnaire for the area in which they wish to deliver the service i.e Lot 1 for Central Lancashire and / or Lot 2 for West Lancashire. If a provider wants to provide the service for both geographical areas, they must bid for both Lot 1 and Lot 2. The highest scoring bidder of Lot 1 will be the Preferred Bidder and the highest scoring bidder of Lot 2 will be the Preferred Bidder.

This invitation to tender is based on two lots covering the geographical areas as detailed below:

Lot 1- three MHSTs in Central Lancashire (Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble)

Lot 2 - one MHST in West Lancashire

Bidders will be asked to complete the questionnaire for the area in which they wish to deliver the service i.e Lot 1 for Central Lancashire and / or Lot 2 for West Lancashire. If a provider wants to provide the service for both geographical areas, they must bid for both Lot 1 and Lot 2. The highest scoring bidder of Lot 1 will be the Preferred Bidder and the highest scoring bidder of Lot 2 will be the Preferred Bidder.