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Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services

Buyer: CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST →

BuyerCAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST
StatustenderUpdate
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published12 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services Awarding under PSR Direct Award C - Provider has been successfully providing this service without significant fee increases since 2011. Start Date - 01.04.2025 End Date - 31.03.2026

Categories

Miscellaneous health services 85140000

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Miscellaneous health services (85140000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8511,7481 median · 42.2 average (4,958 of 11,748 with a bid count)2.2 average (5,658 of 11,748 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-056b22
Latest release ID056046-2025
Latest release timestampFri Sep 12 2025 08:57:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusNot published
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source0
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
12 Sept 2025tenderUpdate056046-2025
1 Aug 2025award, contract045136-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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  "id": "056046-2025",
  "tag": [
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  ],
  "date": "2025-09-12T09:57:01+01:00",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-056b22",
  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-NHS-PHQR-1485-BDJQ",
    "name": "CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST"
  },
  "tender": {
    "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-056b22",
    "title": "Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services",
    "amendments": [
      {
        "id": "1",
        "description": "Contract End date was not provided"
      }
    ],
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "32014L0024",
      "scheme": "CELEX"
    },
    "description": "Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services\nAwarding under PSR Direct Award C - Provider has been successfully providing this service without significant fee increases since 2011. \nStart Date - 01.04.2025\nEnd Date - 31.03.2026",
    "classification": {
      "id": "85140000",
      "scheme": "CPV",
      "description": "Miscellaneous health services"
    },
    "mainProcurementCategory": "services"
  },
  "parties": [
    {
      "id": "GB-NHS-PHQR-1485-BDJQ",
      "name": "CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST",
      "roles": [
        "buyer"
      ],
      "address": {
        "region": "UKH12",
        "locality": "Cambridgeshire",
        "postalCode": "PE274LG",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Unit 7/8, Meadow Park, St. Ives"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/"
      },
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PHQR-1485-BDJQ",
        "scheme": "GB-NHS",
        "legalName": "CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "ccs.procurementteam@nhs.net"
      }
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "initiationType": "tender"
}
Complete JSON history (2 releases)
12 Sept 2025 · 056046-2025 · tenderUpdate
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    "name": "CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST"
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    "title": "Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services",
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        "description": "Contract End date was not provided"
      }
    ],
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "32014L0024",
      "scheme": "CELEX"
    },
    "description": "Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services\nAwarding under PSR Direct Award C - Provider has been successfully providing this service without significant fee increases since 2011. \nStart Date - 01.04.2025\nEnd Date - 31.03.2026",
    "classification": {
      "id": "85140000",
      "scheme": "CPV",
      "description": "Miscellaneous health services"
    },
    "mainProcurementCategory": "services"
  },
  "parties": [
    {
      "id": "GB-NHS-PHQR-1485-BDJQ",
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      "roles": [
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        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Unit 7/8, Meadow Park, St. Ives"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk/"
      },
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PHQR-1485-BDJQ",
        "scheme": "GB-NHS",
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      }
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "initiationType": "tender"
}
1 Aug 2025 · 045136-2025 · award, contract
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    "contract"
  ],
  "bids": {
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        "value": 1,
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        "relatedLot": "1"
      }
    ]
  },
  "date": "2025-08-01T11:26:55+01:00",
  "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-056b22",
  "buyer": {
    "id": "GB-FTS-156630",
    "name": "CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST"
  },
  "awards": [
    {
      "id": "045136-2025-1",
      "status": "active",
      "suppliers": [
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          "name": "The Counselling Foundation"
        }
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "tender": {
    "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-056b22",
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        "id": "1",
        "status": "cancelled",
        "options": {
          "description": "If at the end of the 12 month term this can be reviewed annually and extended if agreed by the relevant authority."
        },
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        "description": "Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services\nAwarding under PSR Direct Award C - Provider has been successfully providing this service without significant fee increases since 2011. \nStart Date - 01.04.2025\nEnd Date - 31.03.2026",
        "awardCriteria": {
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            {
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          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "items": [
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        "id": "1",
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        "deliveryAddresses": [
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            "region": "UKC"
          },
          {
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "region": "UKH"
          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "region": "UKJ"
          },
          {
            "region": "UKK"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "title": "Agreement for the Provision of Employee Counselling Services",
    "status": "complete",
    "legalBasis": {
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    },
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      }
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    {
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      "name": "The Counselling Foundation",
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      ],
      "address": {
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    },
    {
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      "name": "Angela Hartley",
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      ],
      "address": {
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        "countryName": "United Kingdom"
      },
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      }
    }
  ],
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      "awardID": "045136-2025-1",
      "dateSigned": "2025-04-01T00:00:00+01:00"
    }
  ],
  "initiationType": "tender"
}