Psychiatry Services – Bowden and Drumheller Institutions

Psychiatry services

This requirement is for: The Correctional Service of Canada, in the Prairie Region for Bowden and Drumheller Institutions.

Trade agreement:

This procurement is not subject to any trade agreement.

Tendering procedures: All interested suppliers may submit a bid.

Competitive Procurement Strategy: lowest priced compliant bid.

Set-aside under the Procurement Strategy for Aboriginal Business:

This procurement is not subject to any set-asides for Aboriginal Suppliers.

Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement:

This procurement is not subject to a Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement.

Security Requirements: This contract includes security requirements.

Nature of Requirements:

The following is a summary of the statement of work for this requirement.

The Correctional Service Canada has a requirement to provide Psychiatry services for the following institutional sites in the Prairie Region:

Bowden Institution

Drumheller Institution

The Contractor must provide mental health services to offenders with serious mental illness, as requested

by the Project Authority, in accordance with the National Essential Health Services Framework including

any amendment to this Framework issued by CSC during the contract period and any optional period if

and when exercised by CSC. 

Objectives: To provide essential mental health services to offenders at the Bowden and Drumheller Institutions as a psychiatrist. CSC has a legal obligation, under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (CCRA), to “provide every offender with essential health care and reasonable access to non essential mental health care”.

Deliverables:

a) The Contractor must perform risk assessments and submit risk and psychological assessment reports for sharing with third parties including the Parole Board of Canada as requested by the Project Authority. These reports must meet CSC requirements and include, as a minimum, the following:

1. Purpose of report
2. Social history (if not already on file)
3. Pertinent offense dynamics
4. Crime cycle and inmate’s understanding of this cycle
5. Interview impressions
6. Psychiatric diagnosis
7. Assessment of recidivism risk, and risk management and relapse prevention plan.

b) Assessments should focus on risk, past and current institutional and community functioning and

recommendations for institutional or community-based mental health counseling, supervision strategies

and involvement in further psychiatric treatment. The Contractor must only use standardized objective

testing and validated risk assessment tools. CSC’s file information may be referenced. It is not necessary

to repeat, in the report, information which is already on the offender’s file.

c) The Contractor must perform Assessments of inmates serving a life sentence in accordance with the Detailed Parole Board of Canada Psychiatric Risk Assessment as required by the CCRA and PBC.

d) The Contractor must prepare and submit assessment reports within 45 days of referral or at the date agreed upon with the Project Authority or his/her delegate.

e) The Contractor must submit all risk assessment and/or psychological assessments reports in a typewritten format, using the electronic medical record program (OSCAR).

f) The Contractor must explain to inmates the limits to confidentiality and obligations of the Contractor to CSC prior to providing any services and ensure that all reports are shareable with the inmate.

Term of Contract:

Period of the Contract: The Work is to be performed during the period of January 01, 2018 to December 31, 2020.

File Number: 53700-17-2476670-A

Contracting Authority:

Claudette Chabot

Telephone number: 306-659-9255

E-mail: 501Contracts@csc-scc.gc.ca

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