Official UK procurement notice
Mental Health Crisis Housing Provision
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 Trusts require a partner to provide a Mental Health Crisis Housing service. The aim is to provide an alternative and supporting environment for adults in emotional and/or psychological distress due to the onset of or existing mental illness whose ordinary place of residence may contain elements that are over-stressing or simply not conductive to recovery at the time of crisis. Provision will work to the recovery approach which is a personal individual process of overcoming the negative impact of a mental health episode. Service users will continue with their care under the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team (CRHT) during their stay. The Crisis House service will actively support service users throughout their stay in managing their risk and care plans developed by the CRHT, operating an active 24/7 provision.
The current service does not require the provider to deliver any clinical or therapeutic interventions it is therefore assumed any future procurement of this service would fall under the scope of the Procurement Act 2023 legislation as opposed to the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulations 2023. The Authority is, however, using this pre-market engagement (PME) stage as a fact-finding process to help us understand the market, capabilities, and nature of the service, which is critical for choosing the correct procurement route. For the avoidance of doubt this is not a call for competition. The Authority reserves the right to abandon this procurement and/or change the procurement route as a result of the conclusions of the PME responses and any subsequent changes to our existing specification.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in East Midlands (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East Midlands.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 50 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid18%
2–355%
4–623%
7+5%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate35%
Within ±2%65%
Above estimate0%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8530Published estimate£1.7m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–355%
4–623%
7+5%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 Jan 2026, 16:04 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Jan 2026, 16:04 GMT
- Authority reference
C317430- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-005906- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060c9aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Jan 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published273 days ago22 Jan 2026, 16:04 GMT
- Market engagement257 days ago6 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trusts require a partner to provide a Mental Health Crisis Housing service. The aim is to provide an alternative and supporting environment for adults in emotional and/or psychological distress due to the onset of or existing mental illness whose ordinary place of residence may contain elements that are over-stressing or simply not conductive to recovery at the time of crisis. Provision will work to the recovery approach which is a personal individual process of overcoming the negative impact of a mental health episode. Service users will continue with their care under the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team (CRHT) during their stay. The Crisis House service will actively support service users throughout their stay in managing their risk and care plans developed by the CRHT, operating an active 24/7 provision.
The current service does not require the provider to deliver any clinical or therapeutic interventions it is therefore assumed any future procurement of this service would fall under the scope of the Procurement Act 2023 legislation as opposed to the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulations 2023. The Authority is, however, using this pre-market engagement (PME) stage as a fact-finding process to help us understand the market, capabilities, and nature of the service, which is critical for choosing the correct procurement route. For the avoidance of doubt this is not a call for competition. The Authority reserves the right to abandon this procurement and/or change the procurement route as a result of the conclusions of the PME responses and any subsequent changes to our existing specification.
Suppliers who express an interest are asked to complete the preliminary market engagement questionnaire published alongside this notice in the Atamis tendering portal. Please complete and submit your completed preliminary market engagement questionnaire via the portal no later than 6th February 2026 at 12pm. Suppliers can register an interest and access the questionnaire via the following link atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
The Trust may seek clarifications on Supplier submissions or engage in further market engagement relating which may include additional questionnaires or face to face meetings.
- Tender notice expected219 days ago16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 71 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Jan 2026, 16:04 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustProcuring entityThe managing authority will conduct the procurement process as instructed by Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust including pre-market engagement, publication of tender, moderation of evaluation panel scores, award and drafting of contract.
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender