Official UK procurement notice
Children and Young People's Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Referral Navigation Service in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland - Pre-Procurement Engagement Exercise
Authority: NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe purpose of the service is to provide a single point of entry for triaging of referrals for support for C&YP's emotional wellbeing and mental health needs. It will be open to all C&YP aged 0-18yrs and resident across LLR registered with an LLR GP.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The service will triage referrals from Primary care and other professionals as well as…Planned
The service will triage referrals from Primary care and other professionals as well as those via an online self-referral ensuring that C&YP are signposted or referred to the most appropriate services for their needs in a safe and timely manner.
Aims and objectives of the Service:
- Capacity to triage approximately 750 C&YP each month.
- Capacity to triage approximately 100 C&YP each month via the online self-referral.
- Increase the number of C&YP accessing emotional, mental health and wellbeing services at an appropriate level to meet their needs.
- Increase the number of C&YP, families and carers to access the right care, in the right place at the right time, leading to improved patient experiences and outcomes.
- Reduce waiting times to both assessment and treatment through improved referral management.
- Provide an integrated self-referral route.
- Provide improved equity of access and a reduction in variation, allowing the provider to mobilise the transfer of users from one service to another.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Procurement Unit are issuing this Prior Information Notice on behalf of NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (ICB) who are seeking initial engagement and feedback from the market to establish potential interest to deliver the Children and Young People's Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Referral Navigation Services in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland.
The notice has been issued subject to The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 for the Procurement of Healthcare Services, to establish market interest in the services here described. This is to develop and update the ICB's landscape knowledge of potential suitable providers and an understanding of their ability to deliver these services.
The ICB has not made any decisions with regards to which PSR process to follow in accordance with PSR at this time, and is looking for responses that may guide their decision-making in this regard for the future.
Potentially interested parties are invited to respond to the questions within Atamis project C420980 to express an interest and to give feedback on the specification enclosed with this early supplier involvement advertisement. Full details of the service are set out in the DRAFT Specification within Annex 1 on Atamis.
NOTE: The field on this notice 'II.3. Estimated date of publication of contract notice' contains a purely speculative date at this time and should not be relied upon as a promise that a contract notice will be issued on this date.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 57 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid14%
2–340%
4–621%
7+24%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate42%
Within ±2%48%
Above estimate10%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The service will triage referrals from Primary care and other professionals as well as…CPV 8510Published estimate£368k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 42 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–340%
4–621%
7+24%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Leicestershire Partnership NHS TrustEarlier contract | Community, Mental Health and Children & Young People secondary care services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutlandnotice published Aug 2025 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (47% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Community, Mental Health and Children & Young People secondary care services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland — held by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Mar 2026, 14:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Mar 2026, 14:16 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-018495- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065fbeFind a Tender
Publisher note: At this stage this is an engagement exercise. This engagement exercise will be operated via electronic means using the internet. Details will be made available via documentation and information released on the Atamis portal. To express interest, please register via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Atamis Reference: C420980. Providers are requested to answer the questions within the requirement section when registering interest by 15:00 hours on Tuesday 17th March 2026. Should providers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: [email protected]
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Mar 2026 → 1 May 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published234 days ago2 Mar 2026, 14:16 GMT
- Tender notice expected175 days ago1 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.