Issue - meetings
To agree to award a contract to CNWL for TaMHS services for 12 months from August 2017 to July 2018.
Meeting: 24/04/2017 - Cabinet (Item 9)
9 Contract for the provision of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools Service (TaMHS) 
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The TaMHS Service is a targeted mental health service providing support for children aged 5 to 16 and their families. The project is a collaborative partnership between Brent Council, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (the current provider of CAMHS in Brent) and schools. This report seeks to award a contract to CNWL for a further 12 months without the need for a tender for TaMHS services on the grounds that, on the advice from Brent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), it would be in the best interests of future service provision to defer retendering to align with the timeline for, and integrate with, the retendering of the CCG’s much larger CAMHS contract.
Decision:
RESOLVED:
9.1 Cabinet approved an exemption pursuant to Contract Standing Order 84(a) of the requirement to tender a twelve month contract for Targeted Mental Health in Schools services for good operational and financial reasons as detailed in Section 3 of the Cabinet report.
9.2 Cabinet approved the award of a twelve month contract for Targeted Mental Health in Schools services from 1st August 2017 to 31st July 2018 to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Minutes:
Councillor Mili Patel, Cabinet Member for Children and young People, introduced the report stating that the TaMHS Service is a targeted mental health service providing support for children aged 5 to 16 and their families.
She informed Cabinet that the project is a collaborative partnership between Brent Council, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (the current provider of CAMHS in Brent) and schools. She stated that this report seeks to award a contract to CNWL for a further 12 months without the need for a tender for TaMHS services on the grounds that, on the advice from Brent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), it would be in the best interests of future service provision to defer retendering to align with the timeline for, and integrate with, the retendering of the CCG’s much larger CAMHS contract.
RESOLVED:
9.1 Cabinet approved an exemption pursuant to Contract Standing Order 84(a) of the requirement to tender a twelve month contract for Targeted Mental Health in Schools services for good operational and financial reasons as detailed in Section 3 of the Cabinet report.
9.2 Cabinet approved the award of a twelve month contract for Targeted Mental Health in Schools services from 1st August 2017 to 31st July 2018 to Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.