Reopening of Due Diligence Stage February 2025 From 03/02/2025 to 28/02/2025. For New Entrants onto Framework Only. Voluntary Third Sector Framework For Swansea Bay University Health Board.

Swansea Bay University Health Board currently spends approximately 2 million GBP through Service Level Agreements with Third Sector / voluntary / community organisations to deliver a range of services and support for our population across the local authority areas of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Services are delivered across the Health Board footprint in the following areas: Admission Avoidance & Discharge Support Adult Mental Health Support Services Cancer and Palliative Care including Children and Young People Carers Children and Young People Emergency Response General Information, Advice, Support and Counselling Learning Disability Lifestyle Change and Population Health Older People’s Mental Health Services and Dementia Participation, Coproduction and Facilitation Stroke Substance Misuse Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Sexual Health Services Green initiative Transport The Health Board sees the Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations as a crucial partners in both building community and individual resilience and in delivering services differently to support people’s well-being and self -care as well as providing services contributing to the aims of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 in providing earlier interventions, more preventative services, accessing care closer to home and improving people’s ability to manage their own well-being and health. In addition, the Health Board are further looking at how we can shape future services in line with our Clinical Services Plan and Changing for the Future and to transfer care and services from the statutory to the voluntary sector in areas such as: Helping patients avoid unnecessary hospital admissions Reducing the length of time patients stay in hospital Supporting patients waiting for operations Developing a 7 day a week services Reshaping adult and older people’s mental health and learning disability services We also want to ensure that we can explore commissioning in the future and these lots will also be included in the procurement; Advocacy Bereavement Community Resilience Health Inequalities Housing Out of Hospital Care LGBTQ+ Safeguarding Sustainability Agenda In line with its Strategic Framework for the Voluntary Sector 2023-2027 the Health Board is now seeking to commence a procurement exercise for services provided by Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations. The Framework was co-developed and co-produced with the sector and outlines an ambitious programme of change. Our ambition is that the Health Board and the Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations will further develop our existing strong and effective relationships, leading to more services being delivered jointly across both local authority areas, ensuring that partnership and funding arrangements are effective and efficient. We would like to invite Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations who may be interested in providing any services fitting into the lots above to the first in a series of pre-procurement market engagement events to: Understand the intentions of the market and identify any challenges or barriers Enable the Health Board to understand how our current service needs can shaped and delivered by the Sector Inform the Health Board of the current market position and possible options available Additional information: Reopening of Due Diligence Stage February 2025 From 03/02/2025 to 28/02/2025. For New Entrants onto Framework Only. Voluntary Third Sector Framework For Swansea Bay University Health Board. Tender Reference: SBU-OJEU-50022-041-JW-21

Swansea Bay University Health Board currently spends approximately 2 million GBP through Service Level Agreements with Third Sector / voluntary / community organisations to deliver a range of services and support for our population across the local authority areas of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. Services are delivered across the Health Board footprint in the following areas: Admission Avoidance & Discharge Support Adult Mental Health Support Services Cancer and Palliative Care including Children and Young People Carers Children and Young People Emergency Response General Information, Advice, Support and Counselling Learning Disability Lifestyle Change and Population Health Older People’s Mental Health Services and Dementia Participation, Coproduction and Facilitation Stroke Substance Misuse Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Sexual Health Services Green initiative Transport The Health Board sees the Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations as a crucial partners in both building community and individual resilience and in delivering services differently to support people’s well-being and self -care as well as providing services contributing to the aims of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 in providing earlier interventions, more preventative services, accessing care closer to home and improving people’s ability to manage their own well-being and health. In addition, the Health Board are further looking at how we can shape future services in line with our Clinical Services Plan and Changing for the Future and to transfer care and services from the statutory to the voluntary sector in areas such as: Helping patients avoid unnecessary hospital admissions Reducing the length of time patients stay in hospital Supporting patients waiting for operations Developing a 7 day a week services Reshaping adult and older people’s mental health and learning disability services We also want to ensure that we can explore commissioning in the future and these lots will also be included in the procurement; Advocacy Bereavement Community Resilience Health Inequalities Housing Out of Hospital Care LGBTQ+ Safeguarding Sustainability Agenda In line with its Strategic Framework for the Voluntary Sector 2023-2027 the Health Board is now seeking to commence a procurement exercise for services provided by Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations. The Framework was co-developed and co-produced with the sector and outlines an ambitious programme of change. Our ambition is that the Health Board and the Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations will further develop our existing strong and effective relationships, leading to more services being delivered jointly across both local authority areas, ensuring that partnership and funding arrangements are effective and efficient. We would like to invite Third Sector / voluntary and community organisations who may be interested in providing any services fitting into the lots above to the first in a series of pre-procurement market engagement events to: Understand the intentions of the market and identify any challenges or barriers Enable the Health Board to understand how our current service needs can shaped and delivered by the Sector Inform the Health Board of the current market position and possible options available Additional information: Reopening of Due Diligence Stage February 2025. From 03/02/2025 to 28/02/2025. For New Entrants onto Framework Only.