P5719 Enhanced Rough Sleeping Outreach Service (EROS

Provision of a street outreach service to rough sleepers. The contract includes a specialist rough sleeping outreach team (TH SORT) that aims to ensure no rough sleeper spends a second night on the street, no one remains living on the street, and rough sleepers who have been accommodated do not return to rough sleeping. The service will • Support all rough sleepers who bed down on the streets of Tower Hamlets (400-500 annually) to exit the street and take up appropriate accommodation. • Provide a core outreach service that responds to Streetlink referrals, conducts early morning and late-night shifts 7 days a week, provides an assessment/ support planning/casework approach, conducts welfare checks on rough sleepers and makes safeguarding referrals as necessary. • Deliver a client-centred, trauma-informed service that can maintain trusting relationships with rough sleepers who have complex needs and challenging behaviours. • Have expertise to work effectively with a range of cohorts within the rough sleeping population, e.g. complex women who are involved in prostitution, non-UK nationals. • Provide an In-Reach service to ensure rough sleepers experience a smooth transition from the street into hostel accommodation and re-engage with former rough sleepers who are at risk of eviction or abandonment from hostel accommodation. Additional information: This contract was initially advertised with a range value of £400 to £600k a year as the Council did an estimation of the core services plus additional grants that they will secure, however, soon after the procurement exercise was concluded, the Council received confirmation of grant for the Rough Sleepers Initiative that exceeded the value initially estimated. The Contract Award Notice clearly set out the intention of the Council to award to the appointed provider by way of variation any additional scope for similar nature services where the funding has been secured. The Council made the estimation of the contract value with the information that they had at the time. The result of the procurement exercise would not have been different should the contract value be the new proposed value; contract advert communicated to the market that the Council would vary the contract if further funding for the same nature of services would be received by Central Government; for technical reasons and consistency of approach to award to a different provider would be detrimental to the service outcomes. New value of contract awarded include a higher estimated total value based on the grant received for this year. Any variations of the contract will be conditional on receiving grant funding and Cabinet approval as initially advertised.