Official UK procurement notice
Mental Health Support Teams in Schools
Authority: NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Service across Central and West Lancashire.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1A Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Service across Central and West LancashireAwarded
A Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Service across Central and West Lancashire.
Mental Health Support Teams provide specific support agreed at a national level, to education settings to support low to moderate mental health.
Contract Start Date: 1st January 2025
Contract End Date: 31st December 2027
The approximate lifetime value of the contract is £4,995,000 however the final contract value is still to be finalised.
Mental Health School Teams are nationally funded by NHS England. Funding is allocated specifically for the provision of Mental Health School Teams and the funding received by the ICB is passed through directly to the provider for this purpose. Funding is allocated on an annual basis, however National guidance dictates that services should be commissioned as recurrent services.
The ICB are intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C. Additional information: 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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 24/01/25 . This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Jan 2025, 11:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Mar 2025, 10:50 GMT
- Authority reference
QE1-DNE-DA-24-001- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-008164- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04cf77Find 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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 24/01/25 . This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Publisher note: 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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 24/01/25. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Written representations should be sent to [email protected] Details of Decision Makers: The recommendation to award the contract via this route has been made by the ICB commissioning lead for the service and was then endorsed at the ICB Commissioning Resource Group on the 18th December 2024.The final decision to award the contract was made by the LSC ICB Executive Team on the 24th December 2024. This award is in compliance with direct award route c as there is an existing provider for the services and the existing provider is satisfying the original contract, will likely satisfy the proposed new contract and the services are not changing considerably. In completion of the service and provider assessment, the relative importance of the key criteria (Quality and Innovation, Value, Integration, Collaboration, and Service Sustainability, Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, and Facilitating Choice, and Social Value) were considered against the current contract specification and the ICB are assured that the provider is satisfying the requirements within the specification in relation to the key criteria. The ICB are also satisfied that the provider meets the basic selection criteria. There were no conflicts of interest identified.
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C. The contract was awarded…
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass - Services to Improve Health and Wellbeing | £4,995,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Mental Health Support Teams in Schools · Compass - Services to Improve Health and Wellbeing
- Signed
- 24 Dec 2024
- Value
- £4,995,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Compass - Services to Improve Health and WellbeingAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.