Official UK procurement notice
Management and Administration of Mental Health and Well-being Community Fund
Authority: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust requires a Service Provider to undertake the administration and management of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Investment Fund (MHWCIF). The provider will administer grant application and award processes, undertake due diligence and governance activities, manage and monitor funding allocated to VCFSE organisations, provide financial and performance reporting, support funded organisations with capacity building and volunteer development, and evaluate and report on outcomes achieved through community-based mental health and wellbeing projects across Lincolnshire.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 10 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT.
CPV: Administrative development project services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Project-management services other than for construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£414,000
- Value
- £414,000 exc. VAT · £496,800 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Contract is for 1 year with options to extend for a further two x 1 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 (3)
- Most Advantageous Tender — 10%
- Most Advantageous Tender — 80%
- Most Advantageous Tender — 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Most Advantageous Tender — Social Value
- Most Advantageous Tender — Quality
- Most Advantageous Tender — Price
- Economic & financial standingAs set out in the Supplier Information Questionnaire
- Technical & professional abilityAs set out in the Supplier Information Questionnaire
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust buys General public services (CPV 7511) — and who usually turns up
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the East Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: General public services (CPV 7511) →
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.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
contract notices in 36 months: 10 in all categories (2 without competition · 3 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: 4 lots. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
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: 4 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: 2 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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.
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: 19 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 all categories, last 36 months: 7 notices.
East Midlands · General public services (CPV 7511)
contract notices delivered in East Midlands in 36 months: 12 in CPV 7511 (4 competed, 7 route not published) · 97 in division 75 (56 competed, 28 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 75), last 36 months: 53 lots. 32 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 21 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
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 75), last 36 months: 53 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 75), last 36 months: 20 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 75), last 36 months: 21 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 75), last 36 months: 38 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 sector (CPV 7511), last 36 months: 3 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 East Midlands market’s usual movement over 20 lots (division 75), applied to the £414,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
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
- Yes · next expected 10 Dec 2026
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 17:57 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 17:57 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 10 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
C475248- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078032Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
- NHS Terms and Conditions - PA2023 (Services)
- Risks
There is a risk that insufficient interest is generated from suitably capable Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations, which may limit the diversity, reach and impact of funded projects and affect delivery of the intended mental health and wellbeing outcomes. This risk is being more…
mitigated through extensive stakeholder engagement, development of the Trust's VCFSE Strategy, and requirements for the appointed provider to undertake proactive outreach, engagement and capacity-building activities to maximise participation and build sector resilience across Lincolnshire.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Atamis legacy domain (health-family.force.com)- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed2 Oct 2026, 17:57 BST
- Clarification questions byin 30 days1 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 31 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 69 days10 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 180 days1 Apr 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
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 17:57 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustProcuring entityProcurement Agent
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declaration
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender