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
- NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Rethink Mental Illness
- Value
- £1,670,855
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 85140000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 023655-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Mar 2026
- Published16 Mar 2026Published the same day
Description
The service will provide support to adults with severe mental illness this will include but not be limited to: • non-medical support for those is crisis in a therapeutic environment; • crisis accommodation support, with the purpose to prevent admission to acute mental health and inpatient care; • access to residential respite care; • support earlier discharge from acute mental health services; • telephone mental health helpline, offering support over the telephone for people with long term mental health issues. The service will work in partnership with the Mental Health Crisis Team service within North East Lincolnshire. NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB are intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Approximate lifetime value of the contract is £1,670,855 Contract term - 01/04/2026 - 31/03/2029 (contract term may be extended by two (2) years).
About the supplier
Rethink Mental Illness: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01227970).