Agenda item - Mental Health Support Services for Adults

1)             Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director of Housing, Care and Wellbeing to participate in a procurement process, conducted by the NHS Sussex ICB for community mental health support services for adults.

2)             Cabinet agrees to the award of a contract via the procurement process set out in 2.1 and delegates authority to the Corporate Director of Housing, Care and Wellbeing to enter into the contract with the successful bidder for the provision of community mental health support services for adults.  The length of the contract to be five years from 1 October 2025 with the option to extend by a further two years on the basis of satisfactory performance by the service provider.

67.1      Cabinet considered a report that sought agreement to jointly commission community mental health support (MHS) services for adults with NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB). The procurement is to be led by the ICB, and the proposed contract is to be for seven years (five years plus optional two-year extension) from October 2025.

67.2      Councillor Sankey and Pumm made comment and contributed to the debate of the report.

67.3      Resolved-

1)             Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director of Housing, Care and Wellbeing to participate in a procurement process, conducted by the NHS Sussex ICB for community mental health support services for adults.

2)             Cabinet agrees to the award of a contract via the procurement process set out in 2.1 and delegates authority to the Corporate Director of Housing, Care and Wellbeing to enter into the contract with the successful bidder for the provision of community mental health support services for adults.  The length of the contract to be five years from 1 October 2025 with the option to extend by a further two years on the basis of satisfactory performance by the service provider.