Healthy Together Peer Led SMI Support

Location

Across the Suffolk alliance areas

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.

Total Quantity or Scope

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.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The contract is for 12 months with an option to extend for a further 12 months up to 31st March 2028

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85140000 - Miscellaneous health services

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

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.