Norwich Community Hub for NHS Norwich CCG, NHS North Norfolk CCG, NHS South Norfolk CCG

The Norwich Community Hub is a new wellbeing resource for people who may be experiencing mental ill-health and mental distress. It will be open during the day and evening and will offer support and advice to people over the age of 18, and will include the provision of 6-8 week daytime courses of support. The hub will include a café to support people who feel socially isolated. It is intended the new service is available from September 2019.

This notice is to advice potential bidders of a market engagement event to take place at the Kings Centre Norwich NR1 1PH on 24.10.2018.

The market engagement event will give providers:

• an overview of service to be provided,

• provide details of the contract type, funding, length and particular conditions,

• explain the procurement process and the anticipated timelines,

• an opportunity to feed back on the specification.

Bidders are asked to email donna.abrahams@nhs.net to request a place at the event, giving details of your organisation and the names of the attendees. Please contact prior to 3:00 pm on 19.10.2018, or a place cannot be guaranteed. The event will take most of the day.

Places are strictly limited therefore reservations are restricted to no more than 2 persons per organisation.

Please note that an expression of interest in this market event will not automatically entitle providers to have involvement in any future procurement exercise. Any procurement conducted as a result of this event will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when it may be published.