Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- City of York Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- York Mind
- Value
- £285,324
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Counselling services (CPV 85312320)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 012715-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2025
- Published12 Feb 2026Published 317 days after the contract date
Description
The Council intends to apply a short term extension to its existing contract for the provision of counselling services for young people aged 12-21 living in York. This extension is required to maintain continuity of provision while the Council undertakes a full review of children and young people's counselling services and aligns future commissioning with the Humber and North Yorkshire Mental Health Strategic Transformation Plan 2025-2030. The current service was originally awarded in 2019 to York Mind following a competitive procurement for a 16-25 counselling service. A subsequent service level agreement piloted counselling for 12-15 year olds, including 1 1 art therapy. The contracting authority intends to award a contract for 12-21 Counselling Service. The Contracting Authority is not awarding a new contract. This VEAT notice is in respect of a proposed short-term extension to the term of its contract for the provision of 12-21 counselling service. See sections 2.2.3 for further d…
About the supplier
York Mind: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02659442).