Official UK procurement notice
UK public contract notice — The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust for Dudley MBC (Feb 2025)
Authority: Dudley MBC
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPublic Health Maternity Contract supports the wider delivery of the Healthy Pregnancy Support Service (HPSS) and works alongside hospital and community midwives through antenatal clinics. They can also see women on a one-to-one basis in their homes, to support them and their families to make healthy lifestyle choices.
The HPSS service has three key elements of support including
• Stop Smoking
• Weight Management & Healthy Lifestyles
• Infant Feeding Support
The aim of the HPSS service is to support families to achieve healthy pregnancies, with better outcomes for themselves and their babies. Supporting families to make informed choices, for themselves and their child, and offering them a seamless pathway of care from pregnancy to birth and beyond.
Other services and support offered through the contract include
• Speciality knowledge, skills and support from Midwifes, Matron and other skilled staff
• Tobacco reduction (NRT and Tobacco reduction Grant funding)
• Specialist training, development and delivery (Birth trauma, pre-birth)
• Digital communication platforms for parent support (FLO- Text message service)
• Other pregnancy support (Antenatal Yoga)
The award is being made to the existing provider of the service, as per Provider Selection Regime, Direct Award Process C. The existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard and has been assessed against the key criteria as such.
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 Midnight on 27 February 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. please contact [email protected] for any written representations. No conflicts of interest have been declared.
CPV: Services provided by midwives
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
- Extensions
- possibility of a 2 year extension - max duration 5 years.
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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 17 Feb 2025, 22:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Feb 2025, 22:47 GMT
- Authority reference
25025- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e305
- 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 standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on 27 February 2025. 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 standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 27 February 2025 at midnight. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Please contact [email protected] for any written representations. This decision has been made as per Dudley MBC Council governance process. No conflicts of interest have been declared.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 005492-2025-1 · The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
- Signed
- 12 Feb 2025
- Value
- £2,741,825
- 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- Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.