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Published 5 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Pre-Birth Services for expectant parents

Official notice

Authority: Torfaen County Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: UKWales (UKL16)
Published estimate£711,170≈ £356k / year · £711,170 inc. VAT20% below published estimate
Submissions closed 23 Jan 2026awarded 5 Mar 2026
Awarded to Crystal Pathways Ltd
Contract term 2 yrsends 15 Mar 2028 · starts 16 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Pre-birth service will deliver early, trauma-informed, and relationship-based support to expectant parents facing significant challenges, with the goal of reducing the number of infants entering care. The service will offer bespoke one-to-one and group-based interventions, with the aim of empowering families to build resilience, improve parenting capacity, and address issues such as domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health, and housing instability. The service will be delivered by a multi-agency team including a consultant social worker, midwife, father’s worker and family support workers, providing holistic, wraparound care.

  • No preliminary market engagement: A market engagement was not carried out

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Awarded 2 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£711,170
Contract period: 16 Mar 2026 – 15 Mar 2028 (2 yrs)Value: £711,170 exc. VAT · £711,170 inc. VAT
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
85000000 Health and social work services

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored
Quality: 100%
Published sub-criteria (1)
  • Pre-Birth Services for Expectant Parents: 100%
Published award criteria (1)
  • Pre-Birth Services for Expectant Parents

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
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT
Last source update
5 Mar 2026, 13:54 GMT
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 12 Mar 2026
Authority reference
EREQ1005095
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-080060
Latest notice
Contract award notice (UK6)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
UKWales (UKL16)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ef78 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Electronic submission allowedLanguage: CY, EN
Submission deadline
23 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
7 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
cy, en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

www.proactisplaza.com ↗

Timeline

5 Dec 2025 → 16 Mar 2026 · 7 dates
  1. Tender notice published326 days ago
    5 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT
  2. Clarification questions by293 days ago
    7 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadline277 days ago
    23 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Assessment summaries sent237 days ago
    5 Mar 2026
  5. Latest notice published236 days ago
    5 Mar 2026, 13:54 GMT
  6. Award decision expected by229 days ago
    12 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
  7. Contract starts226 days ago
    16 Mar 2026

Notice history

4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Dec 2025
  1. Tender notice published
    5 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT
    UK4
  2. Contract award notice published
    5 Mar 2026, 13:54 GMT
    UK6
  3. Status changed to complete
    5 Mar 2026, 13:54 GMT
  4. Contract signature expected
    17 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £568,9361 award exc. VAT
Bids received 11 from SMEs
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Crystal Pathways LtdSMEPre Birth Services17 Mar 2026 – 31 Mar 2028£568,9365 Mar 2026Awarded

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1final-stage tenders11—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Torfaen County Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PDNG-5431-HGYV Civic Centre, Torfaen, Wales, NP4 0LSContact name, email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Crystal PathwaysAwarded supplierGB-PPON: PLRJ-9554-TTRD 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, London, W1W 7LTContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender