# Rough Sleeping Initiative: The Rough Sleeping Prevention Service and Higher Needs Floating Support Service

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Bristol City Council](/buyers/bristol-city-council/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £1,281,795
- Published: 30 June 2022
- Planned start: 1 January 2023
- Planned end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 060358f0-efb4-4409-abe6-291251ad836d-550790
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6b40b050-3fb3-4065-ac65-e80acd6c2be2

## Description

Bristol City Council wishes to appoint provider\(s\) for the provision of 2 Rough Sleeping Initiative services funded by the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities\. Lot 1 - Rough Sleeping Prevention Service - This service includes a team of support workers and attached dedicated short-term stay accommodation\. It will prevent first-time rough sleeping for up to 600 clients per year whose accommodation becomes unsustainable\. The service will assess clients, identifying the best prevention approach to avoid people ever sleeping rough including: local reconnection; funded repatriation; supported accommodation; private rented sector accommodation; work with excluders to maintain family and friends living situations\. Lot 2 - Higher Needs Floating Support Service - This service will provide trauma-informed support to a caseload of 102 clients in year one, working with 158 people in a full year \(including through care to settled housing\) and clients in the 19 HMO spaces costed separately\. This team will work to support people to maintain their accommodation, engage with specialist services and identify settled accommodation options\.

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- [Fire Strategy, Fire Strategy Drawings and the Fire & Emergency file\. Eccleston House\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c5cf1124-ffd9-4539-907f-1565c5e42cb0): Bristol City Council
- [Fire Strategy, Fire Strategy Drawings and the Fire & Emergency file\. Phoenix House\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9ba83506-86bb-4e88-b7d2-f206e3804eba): Bristol City Council
- [Barton House - Desktop Asset Assessment](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7e91fa22-24d4-4327-acfa-c2f0191bfe44): Bristol City Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/060358f0-efb4-4409-abe6-291251ad836d-550790)