Official UK procurement notice
Darlington Crisis House (Non-clinical service)
Authority: TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust have a requirement for the provision of Darlington Crisis House (Non-clinical service).
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) provide a range of inpatient and community mental health and learning disability services for approximately 2 million people of all ages across a large geographical area.
Durham and Darlington (D&D) Adult Mental Health (AMH) crisis services would like to welcome bids from organisations to work in collaboration with the D&D Crisis and Intensive home treatment teams to create a new non-clinical service which provides support and intervention for people who experiencing a crisis. To ensure risk is managed appropriately and any immediate clinical needs are met, the new service will receive referrals from the Urgent Care Crisis service.
Stage one was a Pre Market engagement opportunity which was advertised on Find a Tender Service with an aim to input into the development for the specification and technical questions. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/071229-2025
Stage two is a Competitive Tender Process, under Provider Selection Regime (PSR) therefore this is a two stage process. However please note the outcome of the awarded tender will be from the evaluation criteria of the Competitive Tender Process and not the Pre Market engagement opportunity.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£2,291,600
- Value
- £2,291,600 exc. VAT · £2,749,920 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month (maximum total duration of contract including extensions is 5 years)
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- Quality and Innovation — 30%
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice — 30%
- Value - Pricing — 5%
- Social Value — 10%
- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability — 25%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST buys Health and social work services (CPV 85) — and who usually turns up
TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST’s own published record, next to the North East England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
contract notices in 36 months: 27 in division 85 (21 without competition · 2 route not published) · 36 in all categories (24 without competition · 2 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 lots. All 5 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 34 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 25 notices.
North East England · Health and social work services (CPV 85)
contract notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 1,926 in division 85 (379 competed, 211 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 265 lots. 124 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 141 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 265 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 126 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 122 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 164 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 2,351 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the North East England market’s usual movement over 126 lots (division 85), applied to the £2,291,600 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MARTON CARE HOMES LTD | 12 class wins | 6 months ago | no comparable pairs | 63% |
| Community Integrated Care Large | 38 class wins | this month | at estimate n=1 | 61% |
| Eleanor Nursing and Social Care Ltd Large | 14 class wins | this month | at estimate n=5 | 59% |
| Lifeways Community Care Large | 34 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 59% |
| Royal Mencap Society | 32 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 58% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
C471137 Darlington Crisis House (Non-clinical service)- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d429Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Atamis Health Family Portal- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
7 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice published331 days ago27 Oct 2025, 12:49 GMT
- Market engagement320 days ago7 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
This is market consultation under Section 16-17 of the Procurement Act 2023. The scope is to consult with the market on current system availability. Please submit your expressions of interest and pre market engagement responses via Atamis using the following link: more…
https://atamis-1928.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/ProSpend__Proc_Contract__c/a07Sr00000lNkLfIAK/view The deadline for the expression of interest is noon 07/11/2025 - Tender notice published1 day ago22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Clarification questions byin 23 days16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 30 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 75 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 311 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Oct 2025- Tender notice published22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £2,291,60022 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Status changed to active22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Procurement method changed22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Deadline published: 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2025, 12:20 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Oct 2025, 12:49 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The pre engagement closing date has been extended to 12:00 on 7th November 2025 to allow suppliers time to submit their responses.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender