# Rough Sleeper Outreach Service

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [London Borough of Ealing](/buyers/london-borough-of-ealing/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: St Mungo Community Housing
- Award value: £1,000,000
- Tender value: £1,000,000
- Award date: 28 September 2020
- Published: 29 January 2021
- Contract start: 1 October 2020
- Contract end: 30 September 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: f211ef65-561f-4f67-b906-38dcdcff842d-409525
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2a04a4ca-d8c5-4596-9bff-f4fe2fa87da1

## Description

Ealing Council has awarded a contract for Rough Sleeping Outreach Service to St Mungo Community Housing\. We are a borough with a significantly high incidence of rough sleeping, currently the 6th highest total in London\. We required a provider who can work with rough sleepers found bedded down in public places, on private land and in places like garages, stairwells, and vehicles\. We required a provider who can rise to the challenge of helping a diverse rough sleeping population, of which up to two-thirds have no eligibility for public funds and amongst which many individuals have health and substance misuse issues\. We do, however, benefit from the existence of key partners who work together, including through a well-established borough Homelessness Forum\. We need a provider which can operate an assertive outreach model, with a view to signalling clearly that rough sleeping is not acceptable and that engagement with sources of help is expected\. The provider will also work with enforcement agencies, where the outreach offer is not effective and rough sleeping, with all its risks, persists\. The contractor will be the main point of contact for rough sleepers in Ealing and will work with and forge strong working relationships with key local partners, in the statutory and voluntary sector\. The provider will have primary responsibility for dealing with new rough sleeping reported via Streetlink but will work alongside initiatives like the GLA's Rapid Response Team, while these continue\. Success will be measured by the sustained reduction of rough sleeping, in line with government targets and our local Rough Sleeping Strategy\. The provider is responsible for early intervention, a No Second Night Out approach, follow-up case work, minimising entrenched rough sleeping and achieving sustained accommodation outcomes and support for individuals\. The provider will also have first refusal on hosting additional posts which might be created through government funding to assist in meeting the challenging target of eliminating rough sleeping by 2024\. \.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f211ef65-561f-4f67-b906-38dcdcff842d-409525)