1300 - Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programme and Associated Health and Wellbeing Services

Name: Procurement Process ocds-h6vhtk-05e88d
Creator: Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation
Published: 2026-09-21T13:05:51.000Z
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Official notice

Procurement agent: Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation·On behalf of: Islington Council

Open framework scheme6 lotsServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable

Sectors: Administration, defence and social security services (75)Education & Training (80)Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: UK

Framework ceiling (notional)£220,000,000envelope for 6 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue · 1 value update

Submissions closed 22 May 2026awarded 17 Sept 2026

Awarded to HEALTH & CARE MANAGEMENT LIMITED +23 more7 awards

Framework period 8 yrsextension options published · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought6 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

This notice is to reflect an amendment to Sub lot 3b of Award Notice 2026/S 000-088418, Procurement Identifier ocds-h6vhtk-05e88d whereby the supplier Spectrum Wellness UK Ltd were missed due to an administrative error, YPO are working in partnership with the London Borough of Islington to reprocure the 3rd iteration of their Occupational Health, EAP and Associated Health and Wellbeing Services framework offering a broader reach to the whole public sector through a national framework split into 8 regions procured through the Open Procedure under PA23 offering 2 re-opening periods in years 2 and 5 to encourage a broad mix of suppliers within the market. The Lot structure supports a full end to end wellbeing solution for the Public Sector offering: Occupational Health Services, Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP),Health and Wellbeing Related Training Courses, Flu Vaccination Programmes, Modern Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) and Student Assistance Programmes (SAP) for Higher Education 16 years +. The framework offers both the Competitive Selection Process and Award Without Competition as procurement routes to use. Estimated Contract Value £264,000,000.00 inclusive of VAT for the maximum life of the contract (8 years). All references to values/and or volumes of business are for guidance only and there is no guarantee of any business.

The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 26 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST.

CPV: Administrative healthcare services · Company health services · Counselling services · Guidance and counselling services · Health and first-aid training services · Health services · Health training services · Higher education services · Miscellaneous health services · Physiotherapy services · Primary education services

How this framework works

From the published notice

Type: Open framework · open framework scheme (admission reopens)
Call-offs: call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
Bids received: 19 bids on the busiest of 6 lots · 32 suppliers appointed
Framework period: 8 yrs from 1 Oct 2026
Scheme runs until: 30 Sept 2034

Who may buy through it

The Open Framework will be open to the entire public sector and other public bodies, such as local authorities, education establishments, police forces, fire and rescue service, NHS bodies, registered charities within the UK and central government departments and their agencies that wish to use it (served by YPO as a centralised procurement authority as defined by Section 1 of the Procurement Act 2023). Any OCA described below may utilise the resulting Framework Agreement(s) from the commencement date. https://www.ypo.co.uk/about/customers/permissible-users

Published description of the framework

Customers can call-off the Framework using either a Competitive Selection Process or an Award without Competition. The mechanism for Supplier selection for an Award Without Competition by OCAs or YPO will be as follows: Suppliers will be selected based on the evaluation of this Procurement exercise as relevant and detailed below and ranked accordingly: • Region • Overall Quality Score based on Quality Award Questions AC1 – AC5 (excluding Social Value and Sustainability) • Price per Quality Score • Should the customer be in a position whereby there are 2 or more suppliers with the same Price per Quality score they can then either: 1. Request further information from the 2 or more suppliers to determine the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT) for their requirements. Or 2. The customer should proceed with a Competitive Selection Process based on the criteria detailed below. An Award Without Competition can be made to a highest ranked Supplier who can meet the Contracting Authorities specific requirements, which reflect the most advantageous offer. This means that YPO or the OCA will apply the award criteria set out in the introduction of this ITT to select the Supplier which it will then place an order with. Contracting Authorities are permitted to undertake a Competitive Selection Process. Any OCA or YPO running a Competitive Selection Process under this Open Framework may stipulate their own Conditions of Participation and/or Mandatory Requirements for the Call-off Contract, provided that they do not contradict Conditions of Participation and/or Mandatory Requirements of the Open Framework. These conditions and requirements must be a proportionate means of ensuring that Supplier’s who are invited to compete have the legal, financial, technical, and professional capacity and ability to perform the Call-off Contract. OCAs or YPO may require Supplier’s to provide evidence in order to verify whether a particular condition of participation and/or Mandatory Requirement is satisfied, e.g. relevant accreditations. If the Supplier is unable to satisfy OCA’s or YPO’s Conditions of Participation and/or Mandatory Requirement, they may be excluded from the Competitive Selection Process. All Supplier’s awarded to a particular Lot/will be invited to compete in the process. Supplier’s will be required to submit “sealed bids” via the customer’s choice of e-tendering site and based on the following criteria: Cost - YPO would recommend to Contracting Authorities re-opening the cost criteria between 10% - 80% of the total weighting. However, should a customer’s requirements need adjusting differently this will be at the customers discretion. Quality - YPO would recommend to Contracting Authorities re-opening the quality criteria between 10% - 80% of the total weighting. However, should a customer’s requirements need adjusting differently this will be at the customers discretion. Social Value/Sustainability - YPO would recommend to Contracting Authorities re-opening the Social Value/Sustainability criteria between 10% - 30% of the total weighting. However, should a customer’s requirements need adjusting differently this will be at the customers discretion. Where Contracting Authorities flex the Award Criteria to suit their individual requirements then the overall Award Criteria must total 100%. It is intended that each time a Contracting Authority runs a Competitive Selection Process, the award decision will be based on the above criteria. YPO recommend to Contracting Authorities that at least 2 award criteria are re-opened if a Contracting Authority wish to flex the Award Criteria at Competitive Selection Process stage. Contracting Authorities will apply a scoring scale of their own choosing to evaluate responses to the above criteria. The exact scoring scale will be determined at the Call-off Competitive Selection Process stage and made clear within those documents. YPO and OCAs reserve the right to conduct awards under this Open Framework which involve combining two or more Lots which is permitted through Lot 5 – Multi Lot Award. Only Suppliers who are awarded to all Lots, for which the Competitive Selection Process is being carried out, will be invited to compete. 13.7. At the Competitive Selection stage customers will publish their own specific requirements by reference to the above award criteria, to which Supplier’s will be expected to respond. These requirements may include, but not limited to:  particular delivery timescales;  budgetary requirements  particular invoicing arrangements and payment profiles;  particular associated services, e.g., installation, maintenance, and training;  re-establish pricing;  Social Value in relation to the Call-off Contract and/or compliance with Social Value measurement tool. It is intended that most Call-off competitions under this Open Framework will be conducted using a one stage process as described in clause 13.5, however Contracting Authorities have the option to incorporate one or more of the following elements into their one stage Competitive Selection Process:  Site visits;  Conditions of Participation and/or Mandatory Requirements;  Presentations The exact Competitive Selection Process procedure will be described by the Contracting Authority in the Call-off competition documents. For Competitive Selection Process Call-offs, a mechanism for determining price payable will be as follows - Contracting Authorities will provide a Pricing Schedule at the Competitive Selection Process stage, which all participating Supplier’s will be required to complete and return as part of the “sealed bid” process. - It is expected that pricing will be evaluated by reference to predicted annual volumes / predicted annual usage. - At the Competitive Selection Process stage pricing will be evaluated using methodology stated in clause 8.4.40. Contracting Authorities have an option to use alternative methodologies, provided that it is described in the Call-off Competitive Selection Process competition documents.

Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure

6 lots · all with a published value · same conditions of participation on every lot · same evaluation weights on every lot

Lot #1Lot 1 - Occupational Health Services - All Public SectorAwardedRenewal 8 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£220,000,000