Mental Health Awareness Training

Procurement reference

PQ0602

Procurement description

Birmingham City Council (the Council) is seeking to appoint an organisation to deliver Mental Health Awareness (MHA) Training aimed at improving knowledge and skills around mental health and wellbeing for leaders in faith settings, community groups and other small organisations.

There is a requirement to design and deliver Mental Health Awareness (MHA) Training, aimed at enhancing the knowledge and skills related to mental health and well-being for leaders in faith settings, community groups, and other small organisations. The training will consist of the equivalent of a half-day package (the method should be codesigned with the community), available either face-to-face or online, within local communities and faith settings. The specifics of the delivery method and any supporting resources will be determined through the bidding process once the project is commissioned.

The services will commence on 1st October 2025 and will be in place for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for a further 1 year subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

Main category

Services

Delivery regions

• UKG31 - Birmingham

Total value (estimated, excluding VAT)

90000 GBP to 90000GBP

Contract dates (estimated)

01 October 2025, 01:00AM to 01 October 2027, 00:59AM

Extension end date (if all the extensions are used): 02 October 2028

Birmingham City Council

Procedure type

Below threshold - open competition

Is the total value above threshold?

Below threshold

CPV classifications

• 80500000 - Training services
• 80561000 - Health training services
• 85100000 - Health services
• 85323000 - Community health services

Delivery regions

• UKG31 - Birmingham

Lot value (estimated)

90000 AED Excluding VAT

108000 AED Including VAT

Contract start date (estimated)

01 October 2025, 01:00AM

Contract end date (estimated)

01 October 2027, 00:59AM

Extension end date (estimated)

02 October 2028, 00:59AM

Can the contract be extended?

Yes

Description of extensions

With the option to extend for a further 12 months subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability.

Simple description of award criteria

The award criteria carries a total weighting of 100%, this is split between the following sections: The overall weighting for the quality criteria is 75%. The overall weighting for the price criteria is 25% For full details please refer to the procurement documents.

Tender submission deadline

08 August 2025, 12:00PM

Enquiry deadline

01 August 2025, 12:00PM

Submission address and any special instructions

This Request for Quotations is being issued using the Council’s e-tendering system ‘In-tend’ and organisations must ensure that they are registered users. The procurement process will be managed using this system and therefore all bids must be submitted by Tenderers via the ‘in-tend’ system. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc Registration and use of in-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function and you should not contact any individual directly either by email or by telephone. If you are already a registered user, you do not have to re-register. If you are unable to register with in-tend or are experiencing difficulties, please email the etendering@birmingham.gov.uk.Deadline for request for quotation is noon on 8th August 2025.

May tenders be submitted electronically?

Yes