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 Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Service Six SME, The Lowdown SME, Time2Talk SME, CHAT Youth Counselling SME, Youth Works Northamptonshire SME
- Value
- £5 across 5 lots
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 072202-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Sep 2025
- Published7 Nov 2025Published 63 days after the contract date
Description
This service specification has been developed to support delivery of the Northamptonshire Health and Wellbeing Strategy and relevant outcomes set out in the Public Health Outcomes Framework. There are growing inequalities in outcomes related to socio-economic status and outcomes for children become progressively worse the further down the socio-economic spectrum. The service aims to deliver improved outcomes for all young people and shall allocate resources in proportion to need, based on a proportionate universalist model that aims to bring the outcomes for vulnerable children who in line with the outcomes of children generally. It is intended that a contract will be awarded for 1 year (20th November 2025 to 31st March 2026) with the option to extend for a further 12 months in accordance with the Direct Award Process C (DAP C) of the Providers Selection Regime (PSR) (2023). The anticipated annual value of the contract is £601,000 The key criteria used to assess the provider were the …
Lots in this award
| Lot | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Core Counselling Services in Northamptonshire | Service Six SME | £1 |
| Core Counselling Services in Northamptonshire | The Lowdown SME | £1 |
| Core Counselling Services in Northamptonshire | Time2Talk SME | £1 |
| Core Counselling Services in Northamptonshire | CHAT Youth Counselling SME | £1 |
| Core Counselling Services in Northamptonshire | Youth Works Northamptonshire SME | £1 |
About the suppliers
Service Six: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06740611).
The Lowdown: every public contract they have won.
Time2Talk: every public contract they have won.
CHAT Youth Counselling: every public contract they have won.
Youth Works Northamptonshire: every public contract they have won.