# Dementia Post Diagnostic Support Service - NHS/SOEPS/21\.826 - CAN

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [South of England Procurement Centre](/buyers/south-of-england-procurement-centre/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: East Sussex County Council
- Award value: £1,569,688
- Tender value: £2,885,806
- Award date: 13 December 2022
- Published: 6 January 2023
- Contract start: 1 April 2023
- Contract end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 5962425d-a2dd-43c4-9e89-c04582b211a5-602320
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5e2cf1a6-a2e3-4578-8f36-b6fbd5bac65e

## Description

This notice is to inform the market of the direct award of 24-month contracts for the provision of Dementia Post Diagnostic Support Services to East Sussex County Council for East Sussex and Alzheimer's Society for West Sussex and Brighton & Hove, for NHS Sussex \('the Integrated Care Board'\) commencing 1st April 2023 for a period of 24 months\. NHS Sussex is directly awarding these 24-month contracts to East Sussex County Council and the Alzheimer's Society to ensure key organisational change and transformation objectives, including the development of equitable Sussex wide approaches to service delivery, are delivered\. This will include the development of convergent standards and performance metrics, benchmarking of investment based on population needs, evident Health Inequalities and will be informed by population health clinical intelligence\. This will provide the necessary additional time for NHS Sussex to complete and embed its necessary transformation work and to understand better and accurately specify future specifications for these services\. This will then inform commissioning intentions which will be put to the market in 2024\. The direct award decisions have been made on a strategic and clinical basis, in the context of meeting patient need and improving service equity at a time of significant national and local strategic service delivery transformation\. Contract value for East Sussex County Council \(East Sussex\) = £1,569,688 over the two year period\. Contract value for Alzheimer's Society = £1,104,118 over the two year period \(West Sussex\) & £212,000 over the two year period \(Brighton & Hove\) = Total value £1,316,118

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5962425d-a2dd-43c4-9e89-c04582b211a5-602320)