UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The current contract was awarded to South Downs Health & Care Federation by NHS East Sussex CCG (now NHS Sussex ICB) following a competitive procurement process for a term of 3 years commenced on 1st August 2021. Due to unforeseen circumstances the current contract will terminate on 22nd November 2022. There is an urgent need for continuity of service; therefore, NHS Sussex ICB intends to award this contract to Victoria Medical Centre from 23rd November 2022 to 22nd November 2024, with the option to extend for an additional 12 months until 22nd November 2025. Contract value = £224,088 per annum x 3 years = £672,264 total. If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of this PIN further, please do this by sending a message via the Intend e-Tendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 31st October, 2022. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority shall enter into a contract with the provider, relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice. Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by any other route will not be responded to). NHS Sussex is seeking to secure a Primary Medical Service for homeless patients in Eastbourne and rough sleeper patients (including former rough sleepers, those living in hostels or similar temporary accommodation or people with no fixed address) in the Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden area. Operating drop-in services from town centre, non-GP premises locations where homeless and rough sleepers already access services, working closely with the Rough Sleepers Initiatives (RSI), this service will address the often complex health and care needs of this vulnerable group. The service will operate in the Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden area while supporting services in East Sussex through close collaboration with the RSI service. We aim to deliver a robust and transformative model of care to homeless people and rough sleepers which specifically delivers the following: • GP drop-in clinics specifically for homeless people and rough sleepers for treatment, health checks and signposting/support as appropriate • Community nurse drop-in clinic and outreach, linking into patient pathways that support appointments, appropriate admissions, patient management and improving hospital discharge processes • Support, navigation, and co-ordination to access primary and secondary health services and to assist with GP registration. This will include triage and assessment, remote support and care continuity at accommodation sites. The service will also help to facilitate/maintain necessary inpatient episode(s) of care • Support to local and regional services by working with, and complementing, wider homeless and rough sleeping services such as the Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI)

The current contract with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to expire on 31st March 2023. It was awarded by NHS Sussex CCG (now NHS Sussex ICB) and East Sussex County Council following the publication of a direct award notice. This interim arrangement was put in place to enable service continuity whilst the CCG took time to build a better understanding of the long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on demand, including provision of support into schools, mental health and related health provision for children and young people with SEND. This was put in place to effectively extend service provision at that time, with the original contract having been put in place via a restricted OJEU process in 2018. In order for Sussex ICB to deliver against this agenda, the ICB intends to direct award (effectively extending the existing contract) to Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. The rationale and evidence to support this decision is contained in the section below. The extension will be for a period of one year from 1st April 2023 until 31st March 2024, with the option to extend for a further one year until 31st March 2025 if required. The direct award will ensure services remain in place so that existing and new service users can access these services whilst the organisation undertakes proper engagement with the market to adapt the service to the needs of the population and complete its re-procurement process. The stability of the service will also support the wider local healthcare system. Contract value = £5,252,818 per annum x 2 years = £10,505,636 If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this by sending a message via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 7th November, 2022. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent provider relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication. Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by an other route will not be responded to). NHS Sussex is seeking to secure a Children's Integrated Therapy Service, so that children and young people known to the service achieve their best possible developmental potential and physical and emotional health and well-being both in childhood and through transition into adulthood. The Children's Integrated Therapy Service is a significant provider alongside other services for children with SEN and Disability and is required to contribute to the new way of working outlined in the SEND Reforms of the Children and Families Act 2014. The Children's Integrated Therapy Service will: • Offer a team approach that maintains an appropriate skill mix in order to achieve best value for children and young people and their families, the Local Authority and the NHS. • Provide a timely, accessible therapy service that is responsive to the needs of children, young people that are referred to the service and their families. • Offer multi-agency and inter-agency working to enable therapy objectives to be effectively integrated into the child's everyday life. This includes training for other staff to enhance their skills and support to therapy programmes. • Provide training to parents and carers to improve their ability to support the ongoing needs of their child/children • Maintain a quality service through investment in continuing professional development, supervision and support to all team members.

The current contract with Pioneer Ltd is due to expire on 31st March 2023. The current contract was awarded by NHS East Sussex and NHS West Sussex CCG's (now NHS Sussex ICB) following the publication of a Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a Call for Competition on NHS/SOEPS/19.571b. The ICB intends to direct award (effectively extending the existing contract) to Pioneer Ltd for both localities. The rationale and evidence to support this decision is contained in the section below. The extension will be for a period of up to 24 months from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2025. The current provision of lymphoedema and specialist wound care services is fragmented and inequitable, with different specifications and tariff models in place. This results in Sussex patients experiencing varying levels of delivered service, which could result in poor care. The direct award will enable existing services to continue and satisfy ongoing patient needs for these important and complex services whilst concluding a Sussex wide review that will develop and align a Sussex wide specification to deliver service. The stability of the service will also support the wider local healthcare. There is a known national shortage of both wound care and lymphoedema practitioners meaning that any new providers for the East and West Sussex localities would require an adequate mobilisation period to allow for recruitment that would provide assurance to NHS Sussex of robust, skilled and available workforce is in place. There is recognition that this is a specialist and complex service which requires an appropriately skilled workforce. In summary, services will continue whilst the alignment activities conclude. Contract = £3,600,000 per annum x 2 = £7,200,000 (maximum value and contract length) If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this by sending a message via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Thursday 17th November, 2022. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent provider relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication. Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by an other route will not be responded to).

This notice is to inform the market of the intention to directly award 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council for the provision of Dementia Post Diagnostic Support in East Sussex and the Alzheimer's Society in West Sussex and Brighton & Hove, for NHS Sussex ('the Integrated Care Board') commencing 1st April 2023 for a period of 24 months. NHS Sussex intends to directly award these 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council and the Alzheimer's Society to ensure key organisational change and transformation objectives, including the development of equitable Sussex wide approaches to service delivery, are delivered. This will include the development of convergent standards and performance metrics, benchmarking of investment based on population needs, evident Health Inequalities and will be informed by population health clinical intelligence. This will provide the necessary additional time for NHS Sussex to complete and embed its necessary transformation work and to understand better and accurately specify future specifications for these services. This will then inform commissioning intentions which will be put to the market in 2024. The proposed direct award decisions have been made on a strategic and clinical basis, in the context of meeting patient need and improving service equity at a time of significant national and local strategic service delivery transformation. Contract value for East Sussex County Council (covers East Sussex) = £1,569,688 over the two year period. Contract value for Alzheimer's Society = £1,104,118 over the two year period (covers West Sussex) & £212,000 over the two year period (covers Brighton & Hove) = Total value £1,316,118 If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 12th December, 2022. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent providers relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication. Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by an other route will not be responded to). National strategy dictates that health care systems ensure that people living with dementia are supported to live at home with their families for as long as possible. Early diagnosis and intervention, advance care planning, timely access to specialist assessment and treatment, and effective support for carers are key components of good care. Post diagnosis support services are the cornerstone to ensuring that people living with dementia and those that care for them are supported throughout their dementia journey. The services provide emotional support, practical facilitation, access to wellbeing interventions, guidance and information. Working with Primary Care, they support identification of issues leading to deterioration and provide Care Coordination and Advanced Care Planning. Service provision includes, Early Onset Dementia, complex, challenging and end of life/bereavement support. The services work alongside Memory Assessment Service provision to support virtual diagnostic assessment.

This notice is to inform the market of the intention to directly award contracts to Richmond Fellowship and West Sussex MIND for the provision of a Crisis Cafe Service for NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board ('the ICB') as follows: • Crawley Crisis Café (Richmond Fellowship): Six months from 01/04/23 for a total value of £147,013 • Worthing Crisis Café (West Sussex MIND): Nine months from 01/01/23 for a total value of £212,366 (based on 2021-22 figures) A key component of the NHS Long-Term Plan for Mental Health the provision of crisis alternatives and support services, including crisis cafes, are considered an essential alternative to de-escalating or preventing a mental health crisis which would otherwise require attendance at A&E or an in-patient admission. This direct award is necessary to: i) Enable a full evaluation of the current service provision to take place and decide whether to reprocure or terminate the service. ii) Allow the Sussex-wide review of all existing staying well services (of which this is part) to conclude, so as to ensure equality and consistency across the NHS Sussex footprint. It is essential that the existing service continues to support both new and existing service users whilst a full evaluation locally and Sussex-wide concludes and a new procurement process takes place. The service is a key component of the crisis and urgent care pathway in West Sussex. If the service did not continue in the interim there would be a significant negative impact on our local population who experience mental health crisis, their families and add to the demand and pressures on other parts of healthcare services including both A&E and MH inpatient services. If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this by sending a message or a completed Expression of Interest via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://intendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Monday 12th December 2022. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent provider relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication. Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by any other route will not be responded to).

Commissioners in NHS Sussex wish to procure an integrated therapy and equipment service for children and young people in East Sussex. This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A further Tender advertisement will be issued at the appropriate time where required. Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer at a later date. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI, but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. The Children's Integrated Therapy Service (CITS) brings together the health and local authority provision across the therapy services of Speech and Language, Occupational and Physiotherapy AND the assessment, prescription, and supply of relevant equipment. The fundamental aims of integrating the commissioning of children's therapy services and equipment is to remove duplication and inefficiencies, promote equality of access and increase value for money, with the resulting service improvements for children, young people, parents, and carers. The Children's Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service's will ensure that all children and young people known to the service achieve their best possible developmental potential, physical and emotional health, and well-being both in childhood and through transition into adulthood. The Children's Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service has a key role to play in the services for children with SEN and Disability and is required to contribute to the SEND Reforms of the Children and Families Act 2014. The Contract period for this service is for 3 years + option of the authority to extend a further 2 years. Contract value per annum is £4.5 million. Total contract for 5 years = £22.5 million. Please complete your response and return it via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home by no later than Thursday 22nd December 2022 at noon.

NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board (Contracting Authority) Commissioners wish to commission Assisted Conception Services as per the service specification, for Sussex people experiencing infertility or requiring fertility preservation prior to gonadotoxic treatment. This Service will deliver safe, high quality assisted conception care which offers patients a choice of provider, together with excellent outcomes and an improved patient experience. In securing services from Providers, the Contracting Authority needs assurance of competence, quality, and safety standards. It is a mandatory requirement that Prospective Providers are suitably licenced by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA). The AQP contracts will commence on 1st April 2023 once the procurement process has reached completion. It should be noted that under the Any Qualified Provider model, there will be no guaranteed volume of activity, or payment in the contracts awarded. Any provider will be eligible to join a list of qualified providers subject to demonstrating competency against the authority's specified criteria. The list will be subsequently opened to new entrants to the market, subject to assessment. If qualified, your organisation will be required to accept the terms and conditions and be compliant with the NHS Standard Contract and any subsequent revisions thereof. All correspondence regarding this procurement should be through the e-tender portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning. Any correspondence received via other means will not be responded to. The window for clarification questions from Applicants will close at 5pm, Wednesday 18th January 2023, allowing time for answers to be posted and applicants to complete and submit their applications by 12pm, Monday 30th January 2023. Please read the questionnaire and the supporting offer documents very carefully since failure to comply with the requirements contained therein (including paying particular attention to Maximum Word Limits for answers) will invalidate your submission.

This notice is to inform the market of the intention to directly award a 10-month contract (with an option to extend by 12 months) to Aspens for the provision of a Key Worker Service for NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) from 1st June 2023, as well as a 10 month contract to Aspens for the provision of a Youth Engagement Worker Service from 1st June 2023. The rationale of the Commissioning Authority for this action is because the commissioners believe that Aspens is the sole non statutory sector specialist provider for high quality care and support to individuals on the autism spectrum and with learning disabilities; meeting their needs and aspirations and empowering them to learn and grow through an integrated network of services across Sussex and the South-East. Aspens has provided youth engagement service since 2020 in East Sussex, based on their work in West Sussex. One/off NHS funding opportunities enabled the extended service. This offer became Pan Sussex in 2021. Since 21/22, East Sussex Aspens provides the full key working offer for young people/adults under 25 at risk of hospital bedded care; or providing early discharge care for mental health inpatients. This is one contract for two programs that encompasses all of Sussex (East Sussex & West Sussex). Duration of Contract: East Sussex Key Worker Service 10 months (with an option to extend by 12 months). 1st June 2023-31st March 2025 Youth Engagement Workers (Brighton & Hove and West Sussex) 10 months 1st June 2023 - 31st March 2024 Value of Contract: Key Worker Service (East Sussex only) - 10 month contract of £333,333 plus one year option of up to £400,000 = Maximum total of £733,333 over 22 months Youth Engagement Workers (Brighton & Hove and West Sussex) - 10 month contract of £148,000 = Maximum total of £148,000 over 10 months Total contract value (Key Worker Service & Youth Engagement Workers) = £881,333. If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of the PIN further, please do this by sending a message via the In-tend e-Tendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home in the first instance. The deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm (midday) on Friday 26th May 2023. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter a contract with the incumbent provider relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice, within 30 days of publication. Please note a portal message is the only accepted method of expressing an interest (correspondence received by an other route will not be responded to).

NHS Sussex ICB intends to open the NHS Sussex Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP) contract for new applicants. This contract covers the provision of nursing home services for adults in CQC registered Nursing Homes and is applicable to Providers with nursing homes in West Sussex, East Sussex, Brighton, or the surrounding area. Successful Providers will be added to the NHS Sussex Nursing Home AQP list. This AQP list is used by the ICB as the primary route for commissioning NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) placements for adults. Applications are expected to open on Tuesday 1 April.

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to facilitate engagement with potential providers and relates only to pre-procurement market engagement. NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board and Brighton and Hove City Council (the Commissioners) are seeking to engage with the market in preparation for the potential recommissioning of Mental Health Support Services in both Brighton and Hove and West Sussex from 1st April 2025. In light of the changing strategic context for community mental health services, Commissioners are currently giving consideration to identifying opportunities to improve existing pathways and methods of service delivery, in order to improve outcomes of care. Market insight from suitably experienced providers will be invaluable in shaping this, along with informing the consideration of the structure of any future contracting models. The Commissioner invites interested providers to attend a virtual market engagement event. The aim of which, is to: • Update the market on the strategic context and scope of the Mental Health Support Service re-commissioning process • Highlight areas of anticipated change to existing service delivery • Explain how commissioners plan to capture valuable insight from providers to help inform the recommissioning process. Financial values have yet to be determined. The final financial envelopes (at any contract advert stage) will take account of any change as a result of pathway changes, the financial mechanism adopted for these contracts and the finance and business rules in the NHS Operating Framework. If you are interested in attending this Market Engagement event, please register on Atamis, our dedicated e-procurement system (details at the end of this notice), to access the relevant details and submit an attendance form by 12 noon on Monday 4th March 2024.

The Commissioner is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers in relation to the provision of Primary Care services to a registered population of approximately 8,236 patients (as of October 2023) under an APMS contract. The Commissioner is considering a contract period of between seven and nine years, this remains subject to finalisation. Our aim is to re-procure an APMS contract to provide Primary Care services to those patients registered in Whitehawk and the surrounding area of Brighton and Hove, which includes an area of high deprivation. The contract will be the National APMS contract 2023/24, with annual contract variations as published by NHS England. The provider will ensure the service is integrated with local general practices through the Primary Care Network (PCN), Integrated Community Team (ICT) and the local voluntary and community sector. The service will include care navigation and social prescribing services. Patients will be navigated by staff to the most appropriate health, social care or housing services for their needs. This needs to include a Make Every Contact Count (MECC) approach to help ensure effective signposting. From January 8 - 19 January, we are extending an invitation to interested parties to respond to this RFI. If you would like to have a further conversation about this offer, please contact us via the Atamis eTendering portal. This Request for Information (RFI) process is designed to help the Commissioner to form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A Tender advertisement may be issued at the appropriate time, if required, should the Commissioner consider that the optimum route to commission the service is through a procurement process. Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer later, should the Commissioner undertake a procurement for this service. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI, but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Annual contract value: £1,133,943 Estimated total contract value including 2 year extension: £10,205,487 (7 year contract + 2 year extension) Proposed contract start date: 1st April, 2025 Closing date to respond to the RFI will be: Friday 19th January 2024 at 17:00.

NHS Sussex ICB invites you to join us in shaping a new approach to the way we commission Nursing Home services. We want to deliver better outcomes for the ICS, for our care providers and for the individuals in receipt of care through a standardised service specification and procurement process. Over the coming months we will work with our care providers and other local partners to co-develop a service specification for a Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP) contract. Following the specification development, we will run a procurement process. For more information and to ensure you receive updates and invitations to events, please join our mailing list. To join the mailing list, please email the team at: Sussex.NursingHomeAQP@evalucom.co.uk including your name, your role and details of your nursing home organisation. NHS Sussex ICB have commissioned Evalucom Consulting to work with us to implement the Nursing Home AQP.

Brighton Station Health Centre - Primary Care Hub Brighton and Hove NHS Sussex Request for Information (RFI) The Commissioner is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers in relation to the provision of a Primary Care Hub at Brighton Station Health Centre. The Commissioner is considering a contract period of between five and nine years, this remains subject to finalisation. Important: The Primary Care Hub comprises two distinct elements, each with its own specification: 1) The GP List, and 2) Walk-in service. Our aim is to present these components as a single combined lot in the tender, to achieve economies of scale for the provider, and oversight and supervision for the walk-in service by the APMS registered list clinicians. The contractor will provide Primary Care services to those patients registered with the Brighton Station Health Centre in accordance with the APMS contract 2023/24, with annual contract variations as published by NHS England. In addition to the registered list of patients, the Brighton Station walk-in service aims to offer effective and rapid primary care access to a range of patients who present to the premises in need of urgent primary care services. This will be provided in a timely way to reduce the need to access Urgent Treatment Centre and Emergency Departments, between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00, seven days a week. The commissioners are considering an overall annual indicative budget of between £2,495,000 (five years with the option of two years extension) and £2,473,000 (seven years with the option of two years extension) including an annual pass through of circa £378k. The provider will ensure the service is fully integrated with local general practice, Sussex NHS 111/CAS, UTCs and the wider Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) system, and the local voluntary and community sector. The service will include care navigation and social prescribing services. Patients will be navigated by staff to the most appropriate health, social care or housing services for their needs. This needs to include a Make Every Contact Count approach to help ensure effective signposting. Until 15th December, we are extending an invitation to interested parties to respond to this RFI. If you would like to have a further conversation about this offer, please contact us via the Atamis eTendering portal. This Request for Information (RFI) process is designed to help the Commissioner to form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A Tender advertisement may be issued at the appropriate time, if required, should the Commissioner consider that the optimum route to commission the service is through a procurement process. Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer later, should the Commissioner undertake a procurement for this service. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI, but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the Request for Information (RFI) document, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit your response through Atamis. Please complete your response and return via the Atamis eTendering portal; Reference: C228564 Deadline: 17:00hrs 15/12/2023. Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your insight.

The NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board is looking to procure prescribing decision support software to promote evidence-based best practice, safe and cost-effective prescribing that needs to be fully integrated within TPP SystmOne and EMIS Web GP Clinical Systems. The Commissioner is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers in relation to the provision of Prescribing Decision Support Software Services in Sussex. The Commissioner is considering a contract period of 3 years with an option (of the commissioner) to extend for period of up to 2 further years (3+2), this remains subject to further review. The anticipated contract value is approximately £500K per annum. This is a process designed to help the Commissioner to form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A Tender advertisement may be issued at the appropriate time, if required, should the Commissioner consider that the optimum route to commission the service is through a procurement process. Please complete your response and return via the Atamis eTendering Portal, reference: Prescribing Decision Support Software Service 23.927 - Request for Information (RFI) by 12pm on Monday 3rd July 2023. Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking the views of healthcare providers in relation to vasectomy services in Sussex. This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a tender exercise. A further tender advertisement will be issued at the appropriate time if required. Feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any tender submissions that respondents may wish to offer at a later date in response to formal calls for tenders. No party will be disadvantaged which chooses not to respond to this RFI but it will be helpful to understand all views at this early stage, so all are encouraged to respond as fully as possible. Please complete the document and return your responses via https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome by no later than Tuesday 29th August at 12pm (Noon).

Request For Information (RFI) Mental Health Support Services - Brighton and Hove / West Sussex The Commissioners (NHS Sussex and Brighton and Hove City Council) are seeking the views of Mental Health Support Providers in relation to the provision of Mental Health Support Services for Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, to help inform the commissioning approach for these services from 1st October 2025. The Commissioners are considering a contract period of 5 years with an option (of the commissioner) to extend for a period of up to a further 24 months (5+2), this remains subject to further review. The current service delivers community based mental health services with an aim to provide support to promote well-being, prevent mental ill health by intervening early, and opportunities to pursue meaningful activities and avoid social isolation. These include Mental Health Hubs, Individual Placement Support, Psychosocial services targeting communities of interest, advice lines, support with debt, peer support and aligned services. These services contribute to the wider ambition set out in Improving Lives Together, the Shared Delivery Plan (SDP) for Sussex, to "help local people to live their lives well by doing more to support [them] to stay well, [and] to look after their own health and wellbeing." People with mental health problems are amongst our most disadvantaged populations, with those with serious mental illness (SMI) experiencing profound health inequalities. Current services have developed over time and recommissioning offers an opportunity to take stock of what is in place and how best to transform delivery, in a way that maximises the outcomes secured for the investment and drive integrated delivery across pathways of care. This Request For Information process is designed to help the Commissioner to form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a tender exercise. A tender advertisement may be issued at the appropriate time, if required, should the Commissioner consider that the optimum route to commission the service is through a competitive procurement process. Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future tender submissions you may wish to offer at a later date, should the Commissioner undertake a procurement for this service. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the Request For Information (RFI) document, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit your response through Atamis. Please complete your response and return via the Atamis eTendering Portal, reference: Mental Health Support Services - Brighton and Hove / West Sussex RFI - NHS Sussex ICB: C294011 by 31st July 2024 at 5pm. Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your insight.

NHS Sussex is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers on a range of proposed changes to the service specification and contractual arrangements for the Over-55s AQP Community Audiology Service. An RFI was previously published and closed in October 2022. This is a new RFI with an updated specification. This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A Tender advertisement will be issued in due course. Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer later. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI, but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage and you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can. In addition to this RFI, NHS Sussex will be conducting a Provider Engagement event from 09:30 - 11:30 on Tuesday 24th January. Within that event we will talk through the main proposed changes and the session will include an opportunity for providers to ask questions of the commissioners. The event will take place via MS Teams. If you have not already been invited and wish to attend, please send a portal message and include the names and roles of persons in your organization that you would like to be invited. Please complete your response and return via our E-Tendering Portal at https://intendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home no later than Monday 6th February at 09:30.

NHS Sussex is seeking information regarding the provision of community hearing aids services in Sussex prior to retendering. It is anticipated that the new service will be procured via a standard NHS contract with a contract duration of initially seven years plus the option to extend by a further three years, commencing 1 July 2025 with the aim of ensuring individuals with hearing impairments have access to a high-quality, efficient community hearing aids service that is delivered near their homes, with short waiting times and a high level of responsiveness to the needs of local communities. The length of this contract should support the successful bidder(s) to deliver innovation and efficiencies over that period. An RFI questionnaire is available at: https://atamis-1928.my.salesforce-sites.com/?searchtype=Projects The purpose of the RFI Questionnaire is to gauge market interest, feedback via the RFI response form and provide the ICB with valuable information to help update and improve the current service specification. We request you complete your response and return it via our E-Tendering Portal no later than midday on Friday 2 August 2024. In addition to this RFI, NHS Sussex will be conducting a Provider Engagement event from 12-1pm on Wednesday 31 July. Within that event we will talk through the main proposed changes and the session will include an opportunity for providers to ask questions of the commissioners. The event will take place via MS Teams. In order to book your place, please complete and return Section 2 of this document (market engagement questionnaire) and include the names, roles and contact details of persons in your organisation who you would like to be invited via https://healthfamily.force.com/s/Welcome by no later than Monday 29 July 2024 at 12pm (Noon).

NHS Sussex ICB is inviting home care providers to help shape the service specification for a forthcoming Any Qualified Provider (AQP) home care contract for adult All Age Continuing Care (AACC), including end-of-life care via the Fast Track Pathway and specialist/non-specialist Continuing Healthcare (CHC). Please register interest and share your views via a short survey: https://forms.office.com/e/VyCq8xA2Ua. You will also be invited to participate in workshops and review drafts of the specification. This is market engagement only, not a call for competition. A PSR competitive process will follow once the specification is agreed. For further information contact us at: sussex.homecareaqp@evalucom.co.uk