As Lead Provider for the Mental Health Support Service Contract (UOK East Sussex), Southdown have launched a tender opportunity for organisations to deliver part of that contract – the UOK East Sussex Wellbeing Service.
Currently, UOK East Sussex delivers Community Connectors (Social Prescribing Service); Thinking Well (Complex Emotional Needs Service); Screen & Intervene (Severe Mental Illness Physical Health Checks); Mental Health Support Co-ordinators (Emotional Wellbeing Services); Employment Support (Individual Placement Support – IPS); Work in Mind (Employment Advisors); Seaview, St Leonards (Complex Needs Drop-in Hub); Possability People (Service User Engagement & Involvement); Qwell (Online mental health support, resources and guided self help); and seven Wellbeing Centres in Lewes, Newhaven, Eastbourne, Bexhill, Hastings, Hailsham, and Uckfield. The new UOK East Sussex Wellbeing Service follows a co-produced redesign of the Wellbeing Centre provision.
The UOK East Sussex Wellbeing Service is being procured in five lots. The lots are based on the new Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams footprints, which align with the lower tier local authorities – Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, and Wealden. Organisations may bid to deliver one or multiple lots. Each lot will be assessed individually. The delivery of the UOK East Sussex Wellbeing Service will be a partnership involving the Lead Provider, the five principal subcontractors, and grantee partner organisations. There will be close working relationships with other UOK East Sussex services listed above.
For more information please use the myTenders portal https://www.mytenders.co.uk/ and search for “UOK East Sussex Wellbeing Service” or follow the link https://www.mytenders.co.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR169509 with the timetable of events set out as the below.
| Task | Date |
| Issue of Tender Documents | 10th March 2025 |
| Deadline for Bidders Questions | 20th April 2025 |
| Tender Return Deadline | 5pm 29th April 2025 |
| Evaluation of bids | 21st May 2025 |
| Bid Clarification Week | 21st May – 28th May 2025 |
| Final Decision | 1st June 2025 |
| Standstill Period | 1st June to 13th June 2025 |
| Award of Contract | 13th June 2025 |
| Transition/ Mobilisation | 14th June – 31th August 2025 |
| Contract Commencement date | 1st September 2025 |
