Contract award · 17 Mar 2026

Care Navigator Service

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust awarded “Care Navigator Service” to Mid Cheshire Mind for £165k. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionHealth & social careNorth West

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
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
Value
£165,000
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date17 Mar 2026
  2. Published1 Apr 2026Published 15 days after the contract date

Description

The Care Navigator service compliments the clinical care provided to individuals being supported by Cheshire East CWP Community Mental Health Teams, providing person centred nonclinical care, advice and support. This service brings together the Cheshire Mind and wider East Voluntary Sector organisations and NHS services, specifically the East Cheshire Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), located in Crewe and Macclesfield. Each is reliant upon the other to ensure groups, courses and one to ones are accessed equitably and to ensure the capacity of the groups and/or interventions are effectively used. As part of the offer Cheshire Mind co-locate with the CMHTs to support ease of access, relationship building and continuity around the patient. Cheshire Mind have demonstratable experience in delivering community mental health services, crisis support, peer support, or wellbeing services to support people's mental wellbeing. This also include working with people with severe mental illness…

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