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# Employee Assistance Programme 2025

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employee-assistance-programme-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-0512d0). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** National Highways Limited: "Employee Assistance Programme 2025". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £450,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [National Highways Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/national-highways-limited-gov-ot1346)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £450,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Company health services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/employee-assistance-programme-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-0512d0#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0512d0`

## 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/employee-assistance-programme-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-0512d0#tl-md)

## Description
National Highways are at the early stages of understanding market capability in respect of Employee Assistance Programme providers. This is in advance of the current contractual agreement for these services expiring in 2026. The types of services envisaged under this contract include (but are not limited to),
•	Psychological Treatment including counselling, other talking therapies provided via telephone, web chat and face to face, online self-directed and supported counselling and EMDR
•	Psychological assessments
•	Trauma and Critical Incident Support
•	Support and guidance for Mental Health First Aiders including ongoing support, development and guidance
•	National coverage 24/7, 365 days a year – EAP helpline and APP availability
•	Education and Awareness Programmes
•	Publicity and Promotion
•	Functionality of organisational engagement for team challenges with the ability to access data
•	Chat functions (on app) with non-AI solutions
•	Common occurrence and conditions toolkits for managers and individuals for self-management and signposting
•	Bespoke specialist support materials
•	On-site training as required
•	Financial Wellbeing 
•	Legal services support
•	Addiction support 
•	People manager and senior leader specialist communications 
•	Robust complaints / feedback process
National Highways now wish to understand the current market offering for these types of services, including capacity and mobilisation timescales. 
Please note the values are estimates only at this stage and it is likely that the actual values will be somewhere between £450,000 and £540,000 (including VAT) for the whole life of the contract, including any extensions. 
Alongside this Notice, National Highways have published a survey for interested suppliers to take part in. Details of which can be found below. 
Once the closing date for responses have passed, we will analyse the results and this will inform a procurement, the details of which are still to be determined. Any learning gained from this early engagement will be shared with interested parties.
Routes to market under existing Frameworks that are available to National Highways are being appraised separately.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 85147000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2026 to 31/03/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F021154-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-05-14T10:12:23.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T04:59:43.666Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0512d0