Notice Information
Notice Title
Healthy Together Peer Led SMI Support
Notice Description
Healthy Together provides a fully accessible and enhanced service for SMI patients. It is led by people with lived experience, both staff and volunteers. SUF work in close partnership with NSFT to deliver physical health checks to SMI patients and have an established and trusted working relationship. SUF also provide SMI patients with onward referrals and signposting to wider VCSE organisations, ensuring patients receive person centred, holistic care and support, to manage their SMI diagnosis. Both qualitative and quantitative data flows freely from SUF to partner organisations, including the ICB, to review performance, impact and outcomes.
Lot Information
Lot 1
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice. The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider. Healthy Together provides a fully accessible and enhanced service for SMI patients. It is led by people with lived experience, both staff and volunteers. SUF work in close partnership with NSFT to deliver physical health checks to SMI patients and have an established and trusted working relationship. SUF also provide SMI patients with onward referrals and signposting to wider VCSE organisations, ensuring patients receive person centred, holistic care and support, to manage their SMI diagnosis. Both qualitative and quantitative data flows freely from SUF to partner organisations, including the ICB, to review performance, impact and outcomes. A 12 month contract with an option to extend by a further 12 months commencing 1st April 2026 through to 31st March 2027 (or until 31st March 2028 if extended) The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
Options: The contract is for 12 months with an option to extend for a further 12 months up to 31st March 2028
Procurement Information
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. The award was made on the recommendation of the SNEE ICB Mental Health MDT held 14th October 2025 and approved by the Deputy Chief Executive and Head of Strategy and Transformation on 6th January 2026. * No conflicts of interest, or potential conflicts of interest, were declared by any decision makes. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by Wednesday 21st January 2026 (8 working days following publication of intention to award notice). They should be submitted in writing to procurement@snee.nhs.uk. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0601f2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001571-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85140000 - Miscellaneous health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £234,794 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 8 Jan 20261 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 6 Jan 20262 weeks ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- procurement@snee.nhs.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- IPSWICH
- Postcode
- IP1 2BX
- Post Town
- Ipswich
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH6 Suffolk
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH62 Ipswich
- Delivery Location
- TLH14 Suffolk CC
-
- Local Authority
- Ipswich
- Electoral Ward
- Gipping
- Westminster Constituency
- Ipswich
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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