Official UK procurement notice
Invitation to Participate in Dialogue for Sexual Related Health - Specialist Level 3 & Prevention Service
Authority: Norfolk County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis notice is an intention to award notice under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 - Direct Award Process C.
Norfolk County Council wishes to procure a service to support people across Norfolk at most risk of poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes to improve and maintain their sexual and reproductive health and relationship wellbeing. This is in line with the Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care System's Health Inequalities Strategic Framework for Action (2024-34) and UK Health Security Agency's Health Equity for Health Security Strategy (2023-26) to achieve more equitable health security outcomes and narrow the health inequalities gap
The service will be responsible for delivery of a comprehensive range of evidence-based services, to support the sexual and reproductive health related needs of adults. This will include a flexible range of programmes and interventions across all modalities in each locality.
CPV: Community health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 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
- 20 Nov 2025, 11:35 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Nov 2025, 11:35 GMT
- Authority reference
NCCT42706- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-075573- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e538Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive
- Published justification
The process followed was Direct Award C under the Provider Selection Regime ( award to an existing provider). The term of the existing contract for Specialist Level 3 & Prevention Services is due to expire on 31 March 2026 and Norfolk County Council proposes that a new contract is put in place to replace the existing contract at the end of its term. This is not a procurement for a Framework Agreement.
The standstill will start on 21 November and will finish on 2 December being 8 working days following the date of publication of this notice.
No conflicts of interest were declared for this procurement.
The decision makers are:- Assistant Director, Public Health Commissioning and Head of Complex Transactions and Sourcing.
A panel from Norfolk County Council was formed to decide whether taking into account the key criteria and applying the basic selection criteria, whether it was content that the existing provider is satisfying the original contract. The panel assessed amongst other matters, KPI performance and financial performance and concluded that the existing provider is satisfying the original contract to a sufficient standard. Basic selection criteria ( as per Schedule 16 of the Act) was also passed by Cambridge Community Services. The panel also assessed that the considerable change threshold as defined in the Act had not been met.
Norfolk County Council then assessed whether Cambridgeshire Community Services will likely satisfy the proposed new contract to a sufficient standard. On reviewing Cambridge Community Services method statements for the proposed new contract, the panel assessed these as good, meeting the material requirements of the specification, evidencing good practice and being detailed and clear about what would be delivered and how.
The panel were therefore content that the tests for a Direct Award 1C had been met and that a contract should provisionally be offered to Cambridgeshire Community Services
The contract is for 10 years.
- Review procedure
Any representations ( as per the Health Care Services ( Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 should be received by midnight on 2nd November 2025. This gives time for any provider who might otherwise have been a provider of the services to which the contract relates to make representations; and for the council to consider those representations and respond as appropriate. If following the council's review of its representations a provider wishes to request that the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel considers its representations, then it must submit its request using a pro forma published by the panel within 5 working days of receiving the council's decision.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust | £61,000,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 075573-2025-1 · Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Signed
- 20 Nov 2025
- Value
- £61,000,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 1 electronic | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Independent patient choice and procurement panelReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS TRUSTAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.