Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 28 Oct 2025, 15:09 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Tees Valley Mental Health Training Hub

Authority: Stockton on Tees Borough Council (Local council)·Consortium: 3 public authorities

ServicesBelow thresholdLight touch regimeVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 19 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2028 · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Tees Mental Health Training Hub is a collaborative initiative commissioned across Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, and Redcar & Cleveland, aimed at improving mental health awareness, suicide prevention, and community resilience by providing a range of mental health training courses to support small and medium community-based organisations and businesses most likely to encounter those most at risk of poor mental health.

This service is a key component of the Tees Suicide Prevention Implementation Plan and aims to build workforce capacity in mental health promotion and suicide prevention across the region.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2028 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions
Delivery: North EastEligibility: VCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Stockton on Tees Borough Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Stockton on Tees Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerStockton on Tees Borough Council · division 85
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · North East England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 8 known-size awards · market: division 85 · North East England, n=1,006
25%40%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in North East England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 20 of 20 known-location awards · market: division 85 · North East England, n=1,207
100%71%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 100% against 71%, n=20.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 decided notices · market: division 85 · North East England, n=52
42 days41 days

Half of these awards were announced within 42 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 17 of 20 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · North East England, n=1,746
85%89%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer4 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market160 lots with bid counts · division 85 · North East England
24% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid24%
Market: 38 of 160 lots with published bid counts.
2–338%
Market: 60 of 160 lots with published bid counts.
4–618%
Market: 28 of 160 lots with published bid counts.
7+21%
Market: 34 of 160 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer3 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85 · too few to chart
The market89 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · North East England
27% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27%
Market: 24 of 89 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%65%
Market: 58 of 89 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate8%
Market: 7 of 89 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #124 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 160 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% single-bid risk
Past bids on 160 similar lots
1 bid24%
38 of 160 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–338%
60 of 160 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–618%
28 of 160 similar past lots received 4–6 (18%).
7+21%
34 of 160 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
28 Oct 2025, 15:09 GMT
Last source update
28 Oct 2025, 15:09 GMT
Authority reference
OPEN20251820
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069043
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
North East (UKC11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d572 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Oct 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published358 days ago
    28 Oct 2025, 15:09 GMT
  2. Market engagement341 days ago
    14 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Suppliers are to confirm if they are interested in this project. A questionnaire for suppliers to confirm their interest has been published on the OPEN portal :

    www.open-uk.org/opportunities/overvi… ↗

  3. Tender notice expected336 days ago
    19 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts204 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Oct 2025, 15:09 GMT
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

3 public bodies on the notice

Stockton on Tees Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PCVQ-6435-GNMW Dunedin House, Columbia Drive, Thornaby, Stockton on Tees, North East, TS17 6BJContact email

Consortium members and other public bodies

  • Middlesbrough CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentGB-PPON: PLJH-5252-HJDM Middlesbrough, North EastContact email
  • Redcar and Cleveland Borough CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentGB-PPON: PHZX-3726-LWBD Redcar, North EastContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure