Request for tender
Primary mental health services
RFT101
ATAPS & MHSRRA
Goulburn Valley and North East
September 2015
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Request for tender | Process
Tender Guidelines:
• Murray PHN primary mental health services
• Outline of ATAPS and MHRSSA
• Key dates
• Potentially available sessions by service and
location
• How to submit a tender
• Evaluation criteria
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Primary mental health services |
ATAPS/MHSRRA
Request for Tender (RFT)
• Competitive approach to the market
• Selection of preferred tenderers for award of
contract based on assessment of responses
to the evaluation criteria
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Murray PHN | Primary mental health services
• Murray PHN funded by the Australian Government to
deliver a range of primary mental health services
• Includes Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS)
and Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas
(MHSRRA)
• Services targeted at groups in the Murray PHN catchment
who experience barriers to accessing mental health
services
• Target groups include:
• People who are less able or unable to pay fees;
• Culturally and linguistically diverse communities; and
• People in rural and remote locations
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ATAPS | Overview
• Aims to provide better mental health outcomes for
individuals with common mental disorders (high prevalence
disorders) through offering evidence based short term
psychological interventions within the primary care system
• Offers referral pathways for GP’s and promotes a team
approach to the management of common mental health
disorders
• Murray PHN’s ATAPS service model promotes autonomy
for service providers to manage their own referrals and
encourages building relationships with medical practitioners
• Access operational guidelines for ATAPS
www.murrayphn.org.au
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ATAPS | Target groups and tiers
• Tier 1: Targets hard to reach groups within the Murray
PHN communities to complement (but not replace)
Medicare subsidised mental health services
• Tier 2: Targets specified groups with priority needs
including perinatal depression, child mental health
services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The provision of Tier 2 services require specialist
qualifications and experience as defined in the
operational guidelines
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ATAPS
• Provides clients with assistance for short-term limited intervention
• Clients are eligible for a maximum of 12 individual and/or group
therapy sessions per calendar year, including 6 time-limited
sessions with an option for a further 6 sessions following a mental
health review by the referring practitioner
• Referring GP determines whether the client meets the ATAPS
eligibility criteria for access. The medical practitioner retains clinical
oversight and must provide a mental health care plan
• The ATAPS provider determines whether the patient referred is
appropriate for the service
• Summary patient information and statistical information on sessions
must be provided to Murray PHN on a regular basis by the ATAPS
provider to inform the minimum data set mandated by the
Commonwealth
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MHSRRA
• Provides mental health services to rural and remote
communities that would otherwise have little or no access
to mental health services
• Targets people with diagnosis of mild to moderate mental
illness
• Service delivery model designed to address local needs
and conditions, with an emphasis on promoting the
capacity of clinical staff and local communities to meet their
primary mental health needs
• Clinical service delivery may include face to face, group
sessions, telephone and tele counselling as appropriate
and agreed with the client
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MHSRRA
• Provides a mental health referral pathway for a GP to access service on
behalf of their patient
• The medical practitioner retains clinical oversight and must provide a
mental health care plan to accompany the referral
• The MHSRRA provider delivers psychotherapeutic approaches to the
management of common mental health disorders and promotes a team
approach to the management of mental health disorders
• MHSRRA providers may provide evidence based, short term
psychological interventions in addition to other psycho therapeutic
support
• Access operational guidelines for MHSRRA www.murrayphn.org.au
• Summary patient information and statistical information on sessions
must be provided to Murray PHN on a regular basis by the MHSRRA
provider to inform collection of the data set required by the
Commonwealth
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Services beyond 2015/16
• The Federal Government commissioned a national
review of mental health services in 2014
• Scope and design of federally funded mental health
services beyond 2015/16 will be informed by the
Commonwealth’s response to the commission findings
and recommendations
• In this current year PHN’s have been tasked with
continuity of existing services
• The term of service contracts offered through the tender
process is expected to be 2 November 2015 to 30 June
2016
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Request for tender | Process
• RFT Outcome
• Selection of potential providers based on assessment
against evaluation criteria published in the RFT
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Request for tender | Process
• Tender Schedule:
• Schedule A – Tenderer details
• Information about the tenderer
• Insurance and accreditation
• Specified personnel and credentials
• Schedule B – Proposed services and price
• Proposed services by region/location
• Sessions price to be inclusive of all associated
costs
• Schedule C - Evaluation criteria response
• Schedule D – Tender checklist and declaration
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Proposed services and price |
North East
Region
Location including
General Practice or
Community Venue
Type(s) of
Services
North East
Albury/Wodonga
ATAPS Tier 1
Mt Beauty
ATAPS Tier 1
Region
Location including
General Practice or
Community Venue
Type(s) of Services
North East
Albury/Wodonga
ATAPS Tier 2
Child Mental Health
Wangaratta
ATAPS Tier 2
Child Mental Health
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Proposed
Sessions
Price per
Session
Total Price
Proposed
Sessions
Price per
Session
Total Price
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Proposed services and price |
Goulburn Valley
Region
Location including
General Practice or
Community Venue
Type(s) of
Services
Goulburn Valley
Shepparton:”
including Kialla and
Mooroopna
ATAPS Tier 1
Euroa
ATAPS Tier 1
Numurkah
ATAPS Tier 1
Yarrawonga
ATAPS Tier 1
Murchison
ATAPS Tier 1
Region
Location including
General Practice or
Community Venue
Type(s) of Services
Goulburn Valley
Shepparton including
Kialla and Mooroopna
ATAPS Tier 2
Child Mental Health
Euroa
ATAPS Tier 2
Child Mental Health
Proposed
Sessions
Price per
Session
Total Price
Proposed
Sessions
Price per
Session
Total Price
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Evaluation criteria
• Weighted evaluation criteria:
• Capability (50%): The tenderer demonstrates a valid and effective approach to delivery of the
proposed services as described in the statement of work set out in section 5 of the tender
guidelines
• Experience (10%): The tenderer demonstrates relevant experience and provides evidence of
working with: disadvantaged, low income and hard to reach groups in the community; clients
with diagnosed mental health disorders; short-term models of providing psychological
interventions; and other providers to meet client needs
• Qualifications, skills and knowledge (10%)
• Quality systems (10%): The tenderer provides evidence of existing quality systems and
processes which support clinical governance, including, safety and risk. If a tenderer does not
currently have a quality system in place which meets this criteria, the tenderer must submit a
proposal describing how such quality systems and processes would be established
• Price (20%): The tenderer provides pricing information at schedule B of the tender schedule
which sets out the firm price(s) for delivering the proposed services based on the types of
service(s), number of sessions and geographic location(s). The tenderer’s price must
represent full compensation for provision of the services including all associated costs and
expenses, resources, administration and travel
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Jag Dhaliwal
Executive Director Primary Health Services
t: 03 4408 5619
e: jdhaliwal@murrayphn.org.au
Murray PHN acknowledges the traditional owners of
the lands we work on and would like to pay our
respects to their elders past and present and extend
that respect to all Aboriginal people.