Intensive and Assertive Outreach Service: Recovery and Outreach Sub-Contracted Element

What this is

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is holding a pre-market engagement event for the Recovery and Outreach sub-contracted element of its new Intensive and Assertive Outreach Service for people with serious mental illness, particularly psychosis. Sub-contractors would supply recovery workers delivering assertive outreach, practical support, community participation, non-clinical medication support and substance-misuse/harm-reduction support across Norfolk and Suffolk, 7 days a week between 9am and 7pm. A competitive tender under the Provider Selection Regime is planned in coming months with an anticipated budget of around GBP 750,000 per annum.

Key points

• Pre-market engagement for a sub-contracted mental health Recovery and Outreach service
• Anticipated budget around GBP 750,000 per annum
• Formal PSR competitive tender expected in coming months

Who can bid

Organisations interested in delivering the Recovery and Outreach element as a sub-contractor; VCFSE-sector organisations particularly encouraged. Attendance at the engagement event is by invitation only.

How it is scored

Not applicable at engagement stage; a formal Provider Selection Regime (PSR) competitive tender is planned later.

How to submit

To request an invitation, venue and details for the 8 July 2026 event, contact jo.zenzer@nsft.nhs.uk copying contractsteam@nsft.nhs.uk.

Clarifications

Feedback on the draft service specification gathered at the in-person engagement event on 8 July 2026 (9.30-11.30am).

Contract period

Contract term not yet defined; competitive tender expected in coming months.

Classification

CPV 85100000 — Health services EnglandEast of EnglandNorfolkSuffolk