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title: "Crisis Beds"
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# Crisis Beds

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/crisis-beds-ocds-h6vhtk-03d01a). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCH) are looking to procure crisis care provision for individuals experiencing mental health crisis as part of improving their crisis pathways and preventing admission into hospital. BCH are looking to commission between 4 and 6 crisis beds in total, which are required to be located in the Black Country areas of Sandwell and Dudley. This support may be required intensively but over a short period in a service which is less institutional than a hospital setting. In such circumstances, and in any event, BCH shall not be liable for any costs or loss of expenses whatsoever incurred by any organisation, agent or subsidiary that may have contributed to any proposals submitted to this notice.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/black-country-healthcare-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-taj)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £530,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Community health services, Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKG36, UKG37
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03d01a`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/crisis-beds-ocds-h6vhtk-03d01a#tl-md)

## Description
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCH) are looking to procure crisis care provision for individuals experiencing mental health crisis as part of improving their crisis pathways and preventing admission into hospital. BCH are looking to commission between 4 and 6 crisis beds in total, which are required to be located in the Black Country areas of Sandwell and Dudley.
This PIN invites interested organisations to attend a market engagement event with the aim of testing the viability of delivering the proposed service model and to allow providers to share their views on the specification. This PIN will also allow BCH to understand the market for this service in this area to help inform a potential future procurement process.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85323000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Description:** Regionally and nationally, increasing pressure is being placed on adult acute mental health wards. The increasing number of male and female hospital admissions to local services requires commissioning solutions in order to provide alternatives to adm...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F015208-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-05-30T07:43:20.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-04T03:10:05.455Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03d01a