Provision of mental health practitioner(s) to provide mental health support for adults accessing substance misuse services
Buyer: Hartlepool Borough Council →
What is being bought
To provide support to individuals accessing START whose mental health needs are apparent and effecting their recovery. This will include secondary mental health support and prescribing of medication when required. . To deliver trauma-informed practice in the understanding that trauma exposure can impact an individual's recoveryTo work collaboratively with START and allocated Care Coordinators from the service to plan joint care and risk management plans this will include working at START venues across the town and services being delivered within START core hours. . To draft reports to allow Substance use, Public Health and Commissioning within agreed budgets and timescales to further support the development of the recovery agenda. · To develop care pathways and treatment which engage priority groups and populations who may experience barriers to engagement in treatment; including sex workers, clients with coexisting mental health and substance misuse, armed forces veterans, BME populations, and offenders. · To work alongside service users and their families to ensure collaboration and co-design of services. · To deliver trauma informed approaches to treatment and collaborative working with wider support services to minimise the impact of adverse childhood experiences on future health and wellbeing. · To adopt a whole family approach in order to improve outcomes for children affected by parental substance misuse and mental health needs (Dual Diagnosis) . · To embed workforce culture, recovery support and aftercare that values, celebrates and supports recovery across physical, cultural, social and human dimensions of service users and their family's journey to recovery.
Categories
Comparable-procurement analytics
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health and social work services (85000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.
| Comparison set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 85 | 21,806 | 1 median · 28.5 average (11,061 of 21,806 with a bid count) | 2 average (12,146 of 21,806 with named award suppliers) | 10 comparable price pairs |
| Same buyer | 2 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.
Price-outcome signal
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
Procurement strategy & market signals
Planning & early market engagement
No planning milestones published.
Related procurements
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
Documents & submission route
No documents are published in the current source record.
Source data inventory
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-06603d |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 025616-2026 |
| Latest release timestamp | Fri Mar 20 2026 10:34:41 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | Not published |
| Tender status | Not published |
| Procurement method | Not published |
| Procurement method details | Not published |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Not published |
| Legal basis | 32014L0024 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | Not published |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | Not published |
| Submission method details | Not published |
| Submission languages | Not published |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | Not published |
| Tender lots in source | 0 |
| Tender items in source | 0 |
| Tender documents in source | 0 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
Notice history
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar 2026 | tenderUpdate | 025616-2026 |
| 2 Mar 2026 | award, contract | 018675-2026 |
All source data
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
Complete current OCDS release JSON
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