Awarded· 28 Oct 2024
Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS)
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board · Ipswich, East
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS). It is a contract for other health and social care in Ipswich.
Source: Find a Tender, published 30 Jun 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2024
Contract awarded
Anglia Care Trust
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 08:29
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 09:17
View notice
About this tender
In brief
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS). It is a contract for other health and social care in Ipswich. The contract went to Anglia Care Trust. It was awarded on 28 October 2024. The contract value is £333,536.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 30 June 2025. The notice number is 035992-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-0548f5.
Summary of the contracting process
The Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS) procurement process is led by the NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Ipswich, UK. This contract, valued at approximately £333,536, focuses on providing health services within the Ipswich and East Suffolk and West Suffolk Alliance areas. The service aims to create an alternative community support system to the existing secondary care provisions.
The procurement has reached the award stage under the Provider Selection Regime Regulations 2023, with the contract set to begin on 1st July 2025 and run until 31st March 2027. The direct awarding process did not require prior publication of a competition call, aligning with the Health Care Services regulations.
The contract emphasises quality, value, and innovation, making it ideal for SMEs like Anglia Care Trust, which has secured the contract.
The notice in full
The aim of the SCCS is to provide an alternative community offer to the traditional recovery team community support offered by our secondary care NHS provider, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
Key objectives of the service include:
- to offer virtual support to a range of people alongside face-to-face support.
- for individuals to access support, goal focused planning and activities in their local community.
- encourage people from 18+ to work towards a specific goal or receive impartial support and information.
- offer to people who have been discharged by secondary care as part of their discharge plan.
- offer to people who have greater need than a primary care offer.
- designed to be in place to compliment psychological therapies through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) (Suffolk Wellbeing Service: NSFT).
- help introduce other additional support through a variety of voluntary and mental health groups.
The Contract was previously commissioned for 3 years (including 6m extension) this proposal aligns the contract to expire when the other crisis alternative contracts end and can be reprocured following a full service review. Contract will run from 1st July 2025 to 31st March 2027 with no option to extend.
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. 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
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Anglia Care Trust
- 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
- Buyer's portal
- In-Tend
Values
- Contracts value
- £333,536
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
- 035992-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0548f5
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Ipswich
- Town
- Ipswich
- Postcode
- IP1 2BX
- Electoral ward
- Gipping
- Constituency
- Ipswich
- Delivery area
- Suffolk CC
- Region
- East
- Sub-region
- Ipswich
- Area
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Caryn Akers
- Address
- Ipswich, IP1 2BX · East · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Anglia Care Trust
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS)
Who won the Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS) contract?
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Anglia Care Trust on 28 October 2024.
How much is the Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS) contract worth?
The contract value is £333,536.
Who is the buyer for Suffolk Community Connector Service (SCCS)?
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Ipswich, East. The named contact is Caryn Akers.
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