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title: "Lewisham Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service"
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# Lewisham Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service

Buyer: N E L COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-cc8e70b0-bff8-4f57-bf30-974eac993ad6

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## Summary

The N E L Commissioning Support Unit is overseeing a procurement process for the 'Lewisham Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service,' located in the Lewisham area, London, within the health and social work services industry category. This project has reached the award stage, with the contract being awarded on the 27th of June 2025 to the British Refugee Council. The service, valued at £180,000 per annum and totalling £360,000 for a 24-month period, focuses on providing culturally sensitive, community-based interventions. The procurement method used was a competitive quotation below the threshold, with tender submissions having been due by the 9th of January 2025, and the contract period running from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2027.

This tender offers substantial opportunities for businesses specialising in providing health and wellbeing services to refugee and resettled communities. Companies with expertise in psychoeducational and psychosocial interventions, particularly those fluent in Arabic, Dari, Pashto, and Ukrainian, would find themselves well-placed to compete for such contracts. Additionally, businesses capable of delivering trauma-informed care and community engagement workshops could contribute significantly to the project's objectives, fostering service integration and helping the Lewisham community better support its diverse population. With a strong focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs), this contract presents a growth opportunity for those aiming to expand in the public sector health services market.

## Notice

South East London ICB is seeking to procure a Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service for the Lewisham borough area. The Lewisham Sanctuary Seeking Wellbeing Service has been funded to provide culturally sensitive community-based interventions, advice and practical support to optimise the ongoing health and wellbeing of Lewisham's resettled population and suitability of services for this community. The key objectives for the service are as follows: * Deliver a series of family-orientated, community-based psychoeducational and psychosocial interventions in four key languages: Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Ukrainian. * Provide trauma-informed and culturally sensitive services. * Deliver community training and education to support those who live and work in Lewisham to better understand the experiences of our resettled community and how to support them to make Lewisham home. * Engage with local services supporting the service user group (e.g. Refugee Council Resettlement Service, Lewisham Council Resettlement Team and Action for Refugees in Lewisham (AFRIL) and Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network (LRMN) who support asylum seekers. * Deliver effective stepped-care for service users and seamless integration into statutory services where and when required. * Develop an offer for children aged between 13-18 years. * Develop an appropriate management system to collect, monitor and report on the activities of the service. * Promote and develop a high level of service awareness amongst eligible service users and associated stakeholders. Please refer to the Service Specification for further information on this service. The contract will have a duration of 2 years (24 months). The funding available for this contract is PS180,000 (excluding VAT) per annum making the total cost of the contract PS360,000. This is a Request for Quotation exercise, interested organisations must submit a duly completed RfQ bid responses for this project via Atamis e-tendering portal. Bidders needs to register on Atamis if they are not registered already. This can be done by clicking the below link. https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome For advice or support in registering please contact the Atamis helpdesk: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk Once registered, you can acces the RfQ and submit your response by clicking the following link to this specific project: Atamis contract reference: C324725 https://atamis-1928.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/ProSpend__Proc_Contract__c/a07Sr00000M0qKUIAZ/view Please note that any RfQ submissions by any other means will not be considered. The deadline for submission is 17:00 on 09 January 2025. Any RfQ submissions received after this deadline will not be considered. Please refer to the RfQ Guidance Document for further information and guidance on the Request for Quotation. Additional information: The proposed service is as follows: * Community Wellbeing Workshops: will provide our resettled and refugee populations with opportunities to learn more about their wellbeing and mental health, explore the services available to them in the borough and support one another to nurture and maintain their wellbeing * 1:1 Wellbeing Workshops: will offer time-limited psychosocial support and counselling to those within our resettled and refugee population who seek to explore issues related to their mental health outside of statutory services. These workshops will be culturally specific and those who deliver them should be fluent in the native tongue of those participating. * Community Engagement Workshops: will promote awareness and understanding of the experiences of our resettled and refugee population, available befriender programmes and culturally sensitive ways to support them as they move through their period of resettlement.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/22689793-de0c-4cce-a8f4-44307a9350d6 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Competitive quotation (below threshold) |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 18 Aug 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 16 Jan 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 26 Jun 2025 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £360,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £360,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | N E L COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | East London |
| Postcode | E15 1DA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham |
| Local authority | Newham |
| Electoral ward | Stratford |
| Westminster constituency | Stratford and Bow |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | BRITISH REFUGEE COUNCIL |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services

## Release History

- 18 Aug 2025 at 15:03 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/22689793-de0c-4cce-a8f4-44307a9350d6
- 20 Dec 2024 at 16:44 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/21e2a296-4be9-454c-b7c1-b45ddd37de10
- 12 Dec 2024 at 09:56 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/21e2a296-4be9-454c-b7c1-b45ddd37de10

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/22689793-de0c-4cce-a8f4-44307a9350d6
  18th August 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/21e2a296-4be9-454c-b7c1-b45ddd37de10
  20th December 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- https://atamis-1928.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/ProSpend__Proc_Contract__c/a07Sr00000M0qKUIAZ/view
- https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

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