Awarded· 15 Apr 2025
DORS - Venture People
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Worthing, South East
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has awarded DORS - Venture People. It is a contract for mental health support in Worthing.
Source: Find a Tender, published 15 Aug 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Venture-people
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 12:42
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 12:52
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About this tender
In brief
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has awarded DORS - Venture People. It is a contract for mental health support in Worthing. The contract went to Venture-people. It was awarded on 15 April 2025. The contract value is £1,222,404.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 15 August 2025. The notice number is 049146-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-05085b.
Summary of the contracting process
The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, located in Worthing, United Kingdom, has awarded a contract under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulations 2023 for the West Sussex Discharge, Outreach, and Recovery Support (DORS) service. This procurement process focuses on delivering community-based mental health support to adults, with the primary industry category being health services.
The procurement method was a direct award under PSR, and the contract spans from 26th June 2025 to 25th June 2028, with an initial one-year term and an optional one-year extension. The total contract value, including the extension, amounts to £1,222,404, and the service delivery aims to offer a viable alternative to hospital admissions within the region covered by the Trust.
The contract is ideally suited for providers like small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who can offer innovative solutions that meet the quality, value, and integration criteria set out by the Trust.
The notice in full
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.
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.
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.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
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.
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.
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.
Approximate lifetime contract value PS611,202 for intitial contract period and PSx611,202 optional extension(s)Contract dates: 25.06.2025 to 24.06.2026 PS611,202 Optxtend by 1 year 24.06.2027
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Mental Health Support
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Venture-people
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Tender, Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- SME
Values
- Contracts value
- £1,222,404
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 049146-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05085b
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services; 85144000 - Residential health facilities services; 85312500 - Rehabilitation services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Worthing
- Town
- Brighton
- Postcode
- BN11 1HS
- Electoral ward
- Central
- Constituency
- Worthing West
- Delivery area
- Surrey, East and West Sussex
- Region
- South East
- Sub-region
- West Sussex (South West)
- Area
- Surrey, East and West Sussex
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Taofeeq ladega
- Address
- Worthing, BN11 1HS · South East · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Venture-people
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about DORS - Venture People
Who won the DORS - Venture People contract?
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust awarded the contract to Venture-people on 15 April 2025.
How much is the DORS - Venture People contract worth?
The contract value is £1,222,404.
Who is the buyer for DORS - Venture People?
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, based in Worthing, South East. The named contact is Taofeeq ladega.
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