Official UK procurement notice
INTEGRATED SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES · Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council (Oct 2025)
Authority: Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Service aims are providing a Sexual health and wellbeing of people living in Blackburn with Darwen. The service aims to commission a prevention focussed integrated sexual health service (ISHS); a service that will continually improve education, prevention, testing, treatment and support services in response to a changing environment of sexual health and relationship needs.
This service aims to improve sexual health by delivering a range of interventions across the life course; with a focused direction of travel towards prevention, building resilience and self-esteem, along with consistently promoting healthy choices. The service shall provide, via a digital and clinic approach, open and easy access, cost-effective, high-quality provision for contraception and prevention, diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections, according to evidence-based protocols.
The proposed contract will start 1st April 2026 and end 31st March 2028.
An integrated sexual health service provides patients with open access to confidential, non - judgemental services including STI and Blood Bourne Viruses (BBV) testing, treatment and management; the full range of contraceptive provision; health promotion and prevention. Sexual health is an important area of public health. Most of the adult population of England is sexually active, and access to quality sexual health services improves the health and wellbeing of both individuals and populations.
CPV: Family-planning services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 2 suppliers appointed
- Framework period
- 2 yrs from 1 Apr 2026
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award noticeAwarded
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Oct 2025, 15:43 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Dec 2025, 09:36 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081765- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ad04Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Contract will have a standstill period and will not be formally awarded until 21st October 2025
Publisher note: Written representation can be made for the attention of the Head of Procurement to [email protected]. The standstill period will end at midnight on the 21st October 2025. This direct award is the decision of the Executive Board. We have not noted any declared conflicts or potential conflicts of interest of individuals making the decision. 1) BWD are seeking to award a contract for existing services. These services are currently commissioned and the selected provider are the incumbent provider. 2) The existing provider is not the only capable provider BWD are aware of other providers within the market. 3) There is not unrestricted patient choice applicable to these arrangements i.e. when accessing the services described the patient does not have the choice of provider within BWD 4) The considerable change threshold has not been met as the new arrangements do not mean the contract is materially different to the current one as the only change is the name of the contracting authority and the lifetime of the contract is not at least £500K higher, and 25% higher for the contract being replaced
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
11 Dec 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published317 days ago11 Dec 2025, 09:36 GMT
- Contract starts206 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated11 Dec 2025, 09:36 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £4,706,552, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Contract 081765-2025-INTEGRATED SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICES-1
- Signed
- 25 Nov 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2028
- Status
- active
- Change This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award., Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.
Contract 064287-2025-Integrated Sexual Health Services Blackburn with Darwen Borough Counicil-1
- Signed
- 9 Oct 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Period
- … – 31 Mar 2028
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 0 electronic | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Blackburn with DarwenContracting authorityRegional or local authorityHealth
Framework contractors & participating bidders
3 commercial parties on the notice- Blackburn with Darwen (supplier)Framework contractor
- BrookFramework contractor
- BrookFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.