Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Venture People Limited SME
- Value
- £1,222,404
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Residential health facilities services (CPV 85144000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 017304-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Apr 2025
- Published28 Apr 2025Published 12 days after the contract date
Description
The Trust commissions an independent provider to deliver the West Sussex Discharge, Outreach, and Recovery Support (DORS) service. DORS offers community-based support to adults using Trust mental health services for up to 6-weeks under the Trust's flow and admission alternative pathways.<br/><br/>DORS delivers a block of short-term (up to 6-weeks) community based mental health support hours that can be quickly tailored around the needs of people using our adult mental health services. The service aims to offer least restrictive community interventions that facilitate flow from adult mental health hospitals and enable safe alternatives to admission.<br/><br/>The contract with the current Provider is expiring and containing no function to extend, requires replacing. Both parties wish to continue the relationship, and SPFT are fully satisfied with the Provider's performance.<br/>Approximate lifetime contract value £611,202 for intitial contract period and £x611,202 optional extension(s)C…
About the supplier
Venture People Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08718547).