Official UK procurement notice
Contract for Community Connectors Service ELFT
Authority: East London NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCommunity Connectors collaborative provision within NHS mental health teams.
Mind BLMK work as part of blended teams with the Community Mental Health Teams across Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes.
They provide a Face-to-Face service offering one-to-one support for people with enduring and severe mental health challenges.
They support people to get back into the community and reduce isolation. This could mean supporting them to attend services and groups within their local areas.
This service is only available to those under the NHS Community Mental Health Team.
Work within a Primary Care Network as part of a blended mental health team working individually with people to co-produce plans and set goals.
Take a holistic approach – looking at wider determinants of health.
Offer an in-depth knowledge of the local VCSE and community resources.
Support people on a 1:1 basis over 12 weeks to overcome barriers to engagement and walk the journey together.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Mar 2026, 13:04 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Mar 2026, 13:04 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-027309- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0673d8Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Switching Direct Award
- Published justification
This would’ve been awarded by Compass previously (BLMK MIND community connectors), and as we are in-housing this, there wouldn’t have been a notice published when it was originally awarded years ago.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 25 Mar 2026- Transparency notice published25 Mar 2026, 13:04 GMTUK5
- Contract signature expected27 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mind BLMKSMEVCSE1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2028 | £812,868 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- MIND BLMKAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender