Closed Tender:
Office-based & online videocall face-to-face delivered psychological treatment in the Perth Metropolitan Area
About this Opportunity:
WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) is seeking submissions from organisations to provide Office-based and online videocall face-to-face delivered psychological treatment in the Perth Metropolitan Area.
Background Information:
The WAPHA commissioned Mindspot GP to provide an online Assessment for GP referred individuals to measure their symptom levels for a range of mental health conditions. Upon completion of assessment, a patient may join an online treatment course, delivered by Mindspot GP, or be referred for more interactive face-to-face psychological treatment.
The successful Respondent will be providing the face-to-face psychological treatment component which will be office-based and online videocall to the referred individuals from the Mindspot GP service. Generally this is for individuals who have mild to moderate mental disorders (most commonly anxiety and depression).
Request Briefing
A non-mandatory meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams Meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 14 February 2022. Please register your interest to tenders@wapha.org.au and a teams meeting invite will be emailed.
Queries and Responses
Please raise all queries via email to tenders@wapha.org.au and WAPHA will publish responses on this webpage. The opportunity to submit queries will close on COB Monday 27 February 2023.
Submissions
Please submit the completed submission form/s, non-conformance schedule and other attachments you wish to submit as part of your application to tenders@wapha.org.au. Tender Closing Date is Wednesday 1 March 2023 at 2:00PM (AWST). Submission is to be no larger than 20MB.
Tender:
RFT2023-1
Request Documents:
- Part A – Request information and background (read and keep)
- Part B – Conditions of Request (read and keep)
- Part C – Draft Agreement Documents – Consisting of the following attachments:
- Service Agreement (read and keep)
- Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum (read and keep)
- Part D – Submission – Consisting of the following attachments:
- Submission Form (complete and submit)
- Non-Conformance Schedule (complete and submit if required)
Please check the webpage regularly for any updates in the Q&A section.
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No
Please note that that Draft Activity Schedule has been updated and replaced. The New Request Document “Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2” is on the website.
The only change from previous version was that under Draft Activity Schedule C, Clause B.2.8(1)(c) was deleted.
The required psychological therapy services are identified in Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2 Clause B.2.5 Psychological Therapy/ies (PsycT) Services (pg 3). The eligibility for individuals is contained under Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2 Clause B.2.8 Eligibility (pg 6).
This is a fee for service/session payment contract. As per Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2 Clause C.3 Allowable Use of Fees (pg 10) – * A session payment is all inclusive of treatment and associated clinical administration for the individual plus meeting all reporting requirements and obligations under the Service Agreement and Activity.
As per Draft Activity Schedule Clause B.2.5 (2) (pg 4) – Both modalities need to be available to allow both options as a choice for the individual.
No data exists on the ratio of each mode of delivery as current service was only direct face to face modality.
No
Referral stats cover both Perth North and South PHN collectively. The split is approximately 40% Perth North and 60% Perth South.
Yes
As per Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2 Clause C.3 Allowable Use of Fees (pg 10) – * A session payment is all inclusive of treatment and associated clinical administration for the individual plus meeting all reporting requirements and obligations under the Service Agreement and Activity.
Did Not Attend/Cancellation Fee is in accordance with the Contractors operational policy.
No, as per Draft Activity Schedule Clause B.2.18 (pg 8) – “it is a fundamental principle of Medicare that a Medicare benefit is not payable where a practitioner (anyone with a Medicare provider number eligible to bill Medicare) renders a professional service which has been funded from another source.”
As per Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2 Clause C.3 Allowable Use of Fees (pg 10) – * A session payment is all inclusive of treatment and associated clinical administration for the individual plus meeting all reporting requirements and obligations under the Service Agreement and Activity.
Yes, intake assessment counts towards the 10 sessions as per Draft Activity Schedule Clause B.2.5 (3)(b) (pg 5).
No, training costs is not covered for staff.
No, please provide an explanation on the submission form of how your organisational financial statements are prepared if they are not audited.
When an individual is referred, it is acknowledged that it might take the contractor up to 7 days to contact the referred individual, but until they contact the referred individual, as per Draft Activity Schedule – Addendum 2 Clause B.2.2 General Requirements sub clause (b), the clinical risk shall no way transfer to the Contractor prior to the Contractor accepting the person into the Activity.