Official UK procurement notice
Mental Health Employment Advisors co-located in Job Centres 2025
Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCornwall Council is inviting Tenders for Mental Health Employment Advisors (MHEA) services across all eleven job centres across Cornwall and the Plymouth job centre to support residents from Cornwall.
Essentially MHEAs support individuals with their mental health and wellbeing and help them back into employment. The intervention targets adults aged 16+ years who accessed a job centre and self-declared that their mental health acted as a barrier to accessing appropriate employment. The intervention includes supporting people over a 2-4 month period, which includes an initial assessment to identify their mental health needs, ability to work and then identify a personalised action plan to help them back into employment and improve their mental health and wellbeing. Price - 10% Quality - 75% Social Value - 15%
- No preliminary market engagement: Prior knowledge of the limited market within Cornwall
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£688,948
- Economic & financial standing
Please refer to the Tender Documents for further details of the Conditions of Participation
- Technical & professional ability
Please refer to the Tender Documents for further details of the Conditions of Participation
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 award criteria (3)
- Price: Please refer to the Tender Documents for further information
- Quality: Please refer to the Tender Documents for further information
- Social Value: Please refer to the Tender Documents for further information
- Economic & financial standing
Please refer to the Tender Documents for further details of the Conditions of Participation
- Technical & professional ability
Please refer to the Tender Documents for further details of the Conditions of Participation
- Price carries 10 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1 point. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
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
- Closed
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 3 Nov 2025
- Authority reference
DN790637- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-056615- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059a6cFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
Please refer to the Tender Documents and contractual documentation for further details.
- Risks
Please refer to the Tender Documents and contractual documentation for further details.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
15 Sept 2025 → 1 Dec 2025 · 5 dates- Tender notice published15 Sept 2025, 14:48 BST
- Clarification questions by390 days ago6 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadline379 days ago17 Oct 2025, 17:00 BST
- Award decision expected by361 days ago3 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts334 days ago1 Dec 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published15 Sept 2025, 14:48 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender