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Request for Proposal for a National Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing Study
Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart
The Department requires an external provider to design and conduct a nationally representative study of child and adolescent mental health to meet the following study aims:
(a) The primary aim of The Study is to:
- update national prefalence rates of mental health discorders for Australian children and adolescents, including examining changes since Young Minds Matter (YMM).
(b) The secondary aims of The Study are to:
(i) investigate subsyndromal or pre-disorder symptoms in children and adolescents
(ii) measure impairment associated with mental health symptoms and disorders
(iii) establish rates of suicidality and self-harm in children and adolescents
(iv) investigate help seeking, including service use, in children and adolescents with mental health symptoms/conditions and how this has changed since Young Minds Matter (YMM)
(v) consider educational context in relation to child and adolescent mental health
The information obtained from the study will be used by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments and mental health service providers, to guide the development of mental health policy and programmes for children and adolescents, including to:
· plan appropriate mental health services for children and adolescents,
· determine the need for additional services (service gaps),
· determine whether existing services are appropriate to meet need and what alternatives might be required, and
· benchmark progress in achieving national and jurisdictional goals in promoting the social and emotional wellbeing of children and adolescents.
Nil
The conditions for participation are set out in the Request for Proposal, Part 2: Clause 12 and they state:
1 The Tenderer must not have had any judicial decisions against it (excluding decisions under appeal or instances where the period for appeal or payment/settlement has not expired) relating to employee entitlements where the entitlements remain unpaid.
2 The Tenderer, its personnel, and any Subcontractors proposed in the Proposal must not, at the Closing Time, be listed as terrorists under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (Cth).
3 The Tenderer (and any Subcontractor proposed in its Proposal) must not be named in the Consolidated list referred to in Regulation 40 the Charter of United Nations (Dealing with Assets) Regulations 2008 (Cth).
4(a) The Tenderer either:
i. holds a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record by the Closing Time; or
ii. has a receipt demonstrating that a Statement of Tax Record has been requested from the Australian Taxation Office by the Closing Time, and holds a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record no later than 4 business days from the Closing Time.
(b) the Tenderer holds a Valid and Satisfactory Statement of Tax Record from any Subcontractor that it proposes, as part of its Proposal, to engage to deliver the Services, where the estimated value of the Services to be undertaken by that Subcontractor is over $4 million (GST inclusive).
5 The Tenderer is a legal entity or a partnership at the Closing Time.
6 The Tenderer is not bankrupt or insolvent.
7 The Tenderer is not listed as a non-compliant employer under the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth).
June 2024-June 2027