High Intensity User Service

Official notice

Authority: Newcastle City Council (Local council)

Below threshold - without competitionLight touch regime

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North East (UKC22)

Awarded value£172,422published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 10 Jun 2026no call for competition

Awarded to British Red Cross Society

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This contract will provide services to reduce Health Inequalities by allowing High Intensity Work HIU services to support urgent and emergency care pathway pressures whilst at the same time addressing health inequalities, helping to free up front line resources to see other patients and reduce costs, focusing help for non-medical factors including age, housing instability, social isolation, loneliness, deprivation, and as well as poor physical and mental health. This provision will support reducing health inequalities and a reduction in avoidable emergency department attendances and non-elective admissions.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: North East

85312500 Rehabilitation services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Procedure method: Below threshold - without competition
Legal basis: UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status: Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Light touch regime
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 15 Jun 2026, 08:26 BST
Last source update: 15 Jun 2026, 08:26 BST
FTS notice number: 2026/S 000-055960
Latest notice: Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area: North East (UKC22)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06b487 Find a Tender

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

Contract details notice published
15 Jun 2026, 08:26 BST
UK7

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £172,4221 contract exc. VAT

Contracts signed 1latest 10 Jun 2026

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
British Red Cross SocietyVCSE	£172,422 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 1 · British Red Cross SocietyVCSE
Signed
10 Jun 2026
Value
£172,422
Period
10 Jun 2026 – 31 Mar 2027
Status
active
3 agreed KPIs: • deliver a city-wide service working with the local authority and partners to tailor delivery to best meet population needs. This may include the delivery of targeted initiatives by group of identity, interest or locality. · Reduce repeat use of health services · • The Provider will work closely with Newcastle Treatment and Recovery, specialist drug and alcohol treatment services as well as recovery provision across the city to best meet the needs of service users
- • deliver a city-wide service working with the local authority and partners to tailor delivery to best meet population needs. This may include the delivery of targeted initiatives by group of identity, interest or locality.
- Reduce repeat use of health services
- • The Provider will work closely with Newcastle Treatment and Recovery, specialist drug and alcohol treatment services as well as recovery provision across the city to best meet the needs of service users

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Newcastle City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBHM-6848-TWYG Civic Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East, NE1 8QHContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETYAwarded supplierGB-CHC: 220949GB-COH: RC000070 44 Moorfields, London, London, EC2Y 9ALContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Signed contract contractSigned contractPDF

Notices published for this procedure

Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender15 Jun 2026, 08:26 BST