Market Engagement - NHS Lincolnshire ICB - Community Connectors & Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs

*THIS ADVERT IS FOR MARKET ENGAGEMENT * NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are seeking to commission Community Connectors & Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs.

Community Connectors focus on linking together community based organisations at a neighbourhood level, with the aim to connect people to their local community offer, prevent escalation to statutory services and providing individuals with the opportunity to explore different areas of life that might be impacting on their mental health and wellbeing. Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs offer a community response for people with mental health and wellbeing issues or distress, providing a non-clinical, safe space to support individuals to have choice, understanding, take control of and manage their own mental health, promote self-efficacy and building knowledge, skills, confidence and resilience.

This notice intends to identify providers who would like to express an interest in providing the above service and to invite all interested parties to attend a Market Engagement Event with NHS Lincolnshire ICB. The contract value and duration information will be covered as part of the market engagement presentation pack.

The event details are as follows: Date: Thursday 23rd October 2025 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Online via MS Teams The agenda will be: 1 - Welcome & Introductions 2 - Specification & Service Model 3 - Questions 4 - Procurement Process 5 - Questions 6 - Close

If you wish to attend the event, please register on Atamis using the link below. Closer to the event you will receive a calendar invite detailing how to access the event and a link to Microsoft Teams.

Please note interest is limited to two persons per organisation. To register your interest in this event please access project C393152 via Atamis: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Please note the deadline for confirmation of attendance is 12pm on the 22nd October 2025 after which the access details will then be shared.

A draft Service Specification detailing the requirements of the service will be shared via the attachments area of the project on Atamis ahead of the event. Once registered, providers will be notified when the document has been uploaded and have the option to give feedback about the draft Service Specification and also have the opportunity to provide comments on topics including mobilisation periods and any perceived issues or challenges.

The deadline for providing this feedback is 12pm on the 22nd October 2025. Please note, this is a draft Service Specification which may be subject to changes.

Providers who have expressed an interest in this soft market testing exercise will have the opportunity to submit a separate response to the invitation to tender (ITT) once published. Please note this is a market testing exercise and does not commit the ICB to carry out a procurement process.