--- title: "Housing Related Support - Floating Support" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL" published: "2025-01-28" --- # Housing Related Support - Floating Support Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-04d6a0.json) ## Summary Essex County Council is planning a tender titled "Housing Related Support - Floating Support" under the health and social work services category. The procurement, valued at £17,500,000, aims to provide flexible outreach support across Essex (UKH3 region). The procurement stage is currently in the planning phase, and a market engagement event is scheduled for March 2025. Interested parties should contact Mr Craig Forster at Essex County Council for an invite to this event. The official communication regarding the future notice is expected by 1st June 2025. This tender represents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in providing housing support services to vulnerable populations. The successful provider will deliver interventions aimed at preventing homelessness, addressing complex needs such as mental health and substance misuse, and facilitating access to education, training, and employment. Organisations with experience in managing multi-faceted support services and collaboration with statutory and voluntary agencies will find this tender particularly fitting to their capabilities and instrumental for business growth. ## Notice We are looking to hold a Market Engagement event for this opportunity in March 2025, if you are interested please contact craig.forster@essex.gov.uk for an invite to our event. In 2019, ECC commissioned the Floating Support Service. Operating a peripatetic model, the service delivers flexible, outreach support across the County; providing cost-effective interventions to vulnerable adults and their families, who are at imminent risk of losing their accommodation, or whom may be experiencing a period of crisis. The service is aimed at people across a range of housing tenure, including those accommodated in social housing, owner-occupiers, private rented accommodation, as well as people who are homeless and need to make a housing application to their relevant Local Housing Authority. Interventions include, but are not limited to, help with maintaining tenancies, including development of basic living skills, budgeting, applications for benefits, debt advice, reducing antisocial behaviour, and liaising with landlords regarding repairs etc. The service also supports with making applications for housing and finding suitable/alternative accommodation. While the Service continues to work in close partnership with the Local Housing Authorities (LHAs), it has also forged strong links to wider statutory and voluntary agencies, including Adult Social Care, drug and alcohol treatment providers and criminal justice agencies. As noted above, this has become increasingly important due to the prevalence of complexity of needs. The service therefore takes a holistic view of the person/s they are supporting to identify co-occurring and or other underlying needs, such as mental-ill-health and substance misuse, which are likely to be driving and or compounding their needs around housing. As such, the service ensures that managed referrals are made to relevant services to address these. Similarly, the service also facilitates access to education, training and employment opportunities. Support is targeted and intended to be time limited (generally working with individuals for up to around 6 months) to enable people to reach a point where their circumstances are stabilised, and they can continue to manage independently. However, where needs cannot be met, or issues remain unresolved at the end of six months, the service will continue to support and monitor progress until, as far as possible, a positive outcome is achieved. ### Lot Information Lot 1 ECC is seeking to procure one provider to deliver the Floating Support Service, which will continue to focus on preventing homelessness for vulnerable individuals, who also have a number of co-occurring needs which are likely to be driving and or compounding the risk of homelessness or other accommodation related issues. The service is therefore integral to the wider local system to identifying and engaging with individuals who have a range of multiple and complex needs, working in close partnership with a whole range of statutory and voluntary specialist services. The service is also a key early intervention and prevention service, working to address potential homelessness before it happens, and providing solutions where this is unavoidable. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002782-2025 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 28 Jan 2025 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 31 May 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £17,500,000 | | Lots value | £17,500,000 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL | | Locality | CHELMSFORD | | Post town | Chelmsford | | Postcode | CM1 1QH | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLH East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex | | ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex | | Local authority | Chelmsford | | Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central | | Westminster constituency | Chelmsford | | Delivery location | TLH3 Essex | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 28 Jan 2025 at 09:49 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002782-2025 ## Notice URLs - https://www.essex.gov.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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