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Published 9 Sept 2026, 15:32 BST
Official UK Procurement Procedure

Student Counselling Service

University of Lincoln
Education
Below threshold - without competition
Special Regime: {"lightTouch"}
No classification published
East Midlands (UKF)
Published value
Not published
Contract value exc. VAT
Submission deadline
Open opportunity
complete
Lots published
1
Lots published in procedure
Contract duration
Below threshold - without competition
Published delivery schedule
Electronic Sourcing Gateway:
Published portal

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification
Tenderline summary generated from the published notice
Executive Summary: University of Lincoln: "Student Counselling Service". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Official Requirement Description:
This contract is being awarded as a below threshold contract under the light touch regime, as describe within Section 9 of the Procurement Act. The University is appointing this supplier to provide 24/7 student counselling services, which is a high-risk student-facing service that is linked to the University's wider duties around student wellbeing, mental health, safeguarding, risk management and suicide prevention. It's aim is to help the University's Mental Health Charter and meet the relevant statutory requirements.

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period:
    Not published
    Eligibility:
    Not published

Qualification snapshot & criteria

Go / No-Go Decision Box
Criteria & entry requirements
Evaluation weighting
Award criteria weighting not published in structured data — consult the tender pack documents.
Incumbent & Market Position
Top Retained Vendor (Authority Spend)UNITED LINCOLNSHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUSTHolds 67.4% of historical attributable spend
High Concentration
Entry requirements & qualification
  • Turnover Benchmark
    Guideline requirement: ~2× annual contract value annual turnover.Per Cabinet Office EFS 2026 & Sourcing Playbook: general proportionality cap (~2× run-rate), not an automatic disqualifier.
  • Insurance Commitments (No Upfront Purchase Needed)
    Standard public thresholds: Employer Liability (£5m), Public Liability (£5m-£10m), Professional Indemnity (£1m-£5m).✓ Commitment required upon award only — no upfront policy purchase needed to bid
  • Accreditations & Security Vetting
    Check tender pack for Cyber Essentials Plus (PPN 014 risk-proportional), ISO 27001/9001, and BPSS / SC security clearance requirements for named delivery personnel.
    • Source: Cabinet Office Sourcing Playbook & EFS Guidance.

    Buyer track record & authority intelligence: University of Lincoln

    Rolling 24 months
    Derived from OCDS data
    Published track record for University of Lincoln. These figures describe a rolling 24-month window, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
    Avg price drop
    Not availableEarly / insufficient sample
    Needs a published budget AND award for the same procedure
    Competition Density
    Not availableNo published reports
    Single-bidder rate: Not published
    Supplier Concentration
    High ConcentrationIndicative
    UNITED LINCOLNSHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUSTTop vendor: 67.4% of attributable value
    Published spend
    £815,500Historical spend
    Cumulative GBP spend across 2 retained awards
    Typical award value
    £407,750Indicative (n=2)
    Too few awards for a meaningful range
    Awarded spend by half-year
    2024-H2
    2025-H1
    2025-H2
    2026-H1
    2026-H2
    Methodology & coverage notes (2 active published awards)
    Coverage: 2 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot); 2 valued awards. Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Every figure carries an evidence level: Robust (5+ observations), Moderate (3–4), Indicative (1–2). Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
    Historical Awarded Suppliers in this Category (CPV 85):
    Supplier Name
    Historic Awards
    Attributable Value
    Avg. Price Discount
    UNITED LINCOLNSHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST1 win£550,000No published budget
    Health Assured Limited1 win£265,500No published budget

    Sector Market Benchmark & Opportunity Radar

    CPV 85 · UK Sector Analysis
    Observed CPV-sector evidence
    Prepared 9 Sept 2026, 17:06 BST
    Observed CPV-sector evidence where it exists, with clearly labelled UK all-sector context for sparse fields; this is market context, not a bid forecast.
    Median Winning Discount
    0%
    CPV sector evidence · 450 comparable price observations
    Typical Bids Received
    1reported bids
    CPV sector evidence · 24,051 published bid reports
    Decision Velocity
    ~54 days
    CPV sector evidence · median from 586 completed procedures
    Notice Stability
    Stable notice
    Published terms remained unchanged
    Top Contenders in this Sector (CPV 85)
    Active commercial suppliers winning public contracts in this field
    Supplier
    Awards won
    Total awarded value
    Avg. winning discount
    NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTCRN: RM1
    		40 contracts£166,246,903,700At ceiling / not disclosed
    James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCRN: RGP
    		23 contracts£35,248,700,687At ceiling / not disclosed
    East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation TrustCRN: RDE
    		23 contracts£27,480,539,010At ceiling / not disclosed
    The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation TrustCRN: RCX
    		17 contracts£27,287,590,145At ceiling / not disclosed
    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustCRN: RJ1
    		24 contracts£23,471,877,206At ceiling / not disclosed
    LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUSTCRN: RJ2
    		14 contracts£14,636,940,244At ceiling / not disclosed
    ATOS IT SERVICES UK LIMITEDCRN: 01245534
    		13 contracts£14,362,569,838At ceiling / not disclosed
    NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUSTCRN: RX1
    		18 contracts£13,166,371,703At ceiling / not disclosed
    Barts Health NHS Trust​CRN: R1H
    		4 contracts£12,843,963,488At ceiling / not disclosed
    GROWING SPACE
    		6 contracts£12,491,739,544-0% below budget
    Comparable Published Opportunities & Re-tender Precedents
    Historic records ranked from matching published evidence. They serve as research precedents for contract scoping, specifications, and previous awardees.
    No sufficiently evidenced comparable record has been calculated yet.
    Method: tender-intelligence-v1. Empirical OCDS facts and cross-sector percentiles; missing fields remain unrecorded.

    Procedure terms & legal framework

    Procedure methodBelow threshold - without competitionLegal basis
    UKPGA · 2023/54
    Procurement Act 2023
    		Procurement categoryServices
    Notice statuscompleteProcurement thresholdSub-thresholdRegulatory regime{"lightTouch"}
    Commercial structureStand-alone contract (No framework)Competition typeCompetitive procedureGPA WTO coveredUnspecified in notice
    Recurring procurementNo (One-off requirement)First published9 Sept 2026, 15:32 BSTLast source update9 Sept 2026, 15:32 BST
    Classification (CPV)Unspecified in notice
    Delivery areaLocation not published
    Official Registry OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06f5db
    Timeline
    1. Procedure published
      9 Sept 2026, 15:32 BST
    2. Award active
      Not published · Not published
    3. Contract active
      Signed 6 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST · £265,500

    Commercial outcome and contract awards

    Awards (1)
    HEALTH ASSURED LTD
    Not published · Not published · active · lots 1
    Contracts (1)
    Contract
    £265,500 · signed 6 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST · active
    Contract period: 16 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST — 16 Sept 2029, 23:59 BST
    Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
    Notice history
    From official release and amendment events
    1. Official notice release published
      9 Sept 2026, 15:32 BST

    Buyer and organisations in this procedure

    1 participating organisation

    University of Lincoln

    Contracting authority
    Education
    GB-PPON-PGYJ-5468-QTPJ
    View buyer profile →
    Other participating organisations & roles (1)

    • HEALTH ASSURED LTD
      supplier

      GB-COH: 06314620 · GB-PPON: PCMQ-9746-QQHV
      The Peninsula, Manchester, UKD33, M4 4FB, GB
      [email protected]

    Official Documents & Specifications (1)

    Official links; attachments are not copied