Contract award · 2 Jun 2025

0-19 Public Health Service in Sunderland (PSR Direct Award Process C - Notice of intention to make an award of a contract to the existing provider)

Sunderland City Council awarded “Public Health Service in Sunderland (PSR Direct Award Process C…” to Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust for £56.3m.

No competitionHealth & social careNorth East

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Sunderland City Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£56,340,283.60
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Health & social care · Community health services (CPV 85323000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date2 Jun 2025
  2. Published2 Jun 2025Published the same day

Description

The Authority intends to award a contract for the Service to the existing provider pursuant to Direct Award Process C under Regulation 9 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 ("PSR"). This is a notice under Regulation 9 (3) of the Authority's intention to award the contract for the Service as described below to the existing provider. The contract is for the provision of an integrated Public Health Service for pregnant women, children and young people and their families in the City of Sunderland. The Service will be delivered using the core elements of a universal reach, personalised response model and will comprise of the following components: - Provision of antenatal health promoting reviews from 28 weeks of pregnancy. - Provision of all mandatory universal health and wellbeing reviews as prescribed by the Healthy Child Programme at the following points: - Antenatal health promoting review - New baby review - 6-8 week review - 1 year review - 2-2.5 …

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