Integrated Rough Sleeping Support Service - networking event

Short description Following to our previous Prior Information Notice number 2020/S 179-433268, a Meet the Buyer Webinar was held on 18th September. The Council shared the upcoming plans for the Council's Integrated Rough Sleeping Support Service procurement.

We are now going to have a networking event on 21st October 2020 12:30pm to 2:00pm. It is intended the service will be procured this financial year with a contract start date in early Autumn 2021. This is not an invitation to tender.

Newham Council is developing an Intelligence Led model for Rough Sleeping. This will include person-centred plans for rough sleepers, to enable a sense of belonging and purpose in the wider community.

It is intended that the service will work with partners in health and across the system to ensure a joined up approach to care across the borough, with a focus on improving the longer term outcomes for Rough Sleepers, particularly those who are 'complex and entrenched'. It will also support those with No Recourse to Public Funds to access available opportunities. In addition, Newham council is looking to commission a range of accommodation options that meets the varying and complex needs of rough sleepers.

We are inviting individual organisations, partnerships or consortia to attend this Networking Event. Details of organisations attending the Events will be shared with everyone attending as well as published with Invitation to Tender documents. This is to allow organisations an opportunity to network and/or form partnerships in order to provide the Council's Supported Living and associated services. Organisations will also be given the opportunity to ask commissioners any questions. If organisations have any immediate questions then please contact Saleena Sreedharan and Tracey Sokoya (details below) and the commissioners can address this at the Event. All questions and answers will be shared with attendees of the Events.

Organisations are encouraged to attend the meetings with potential collaborative Partner's to discuss the solutions they currently offer and some of the challenges they come across. The Service is under increasing budgetary pressure and is keen to explore how providers secure additional funds. We are looking to achieve a service model that will provide positive, realistic and achievable outcomes for the service users.

Additional information for this event is in Integrated Rough Sleeping Support Service (attachment 1) and registration form (attachment 2). Information from the previous event is in Attendees Market engagement 18092020 (attachment 3), Market Engagement QA-final 24 09 20 (attachment 4) and Newham's Rough Sleeping Commissioning Intentions - Market Engagement (attachment 5) for your information.