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 Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Eating Matters SME
- Value
- £184,730
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 075979-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Jul 2026
- Published11 Aug 2026Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
The service will provide a specialist community-based early intervention and support service for children and young people aged 11-17 years experiencing disordered eating and eating disorder-related difficulties who do not meet the threshold for specialist NHS eating disorder services. This will be for CYP who reside and are registered with a GP in the Norfolk and Waveney Area. The service offers assessment, therapeutic counselling interventions, parent and carer support, risk monitoring, and signposting, with access available through both NHS referral and self-referral routes. The service forms part of the wider Norfolk and Waveney eating disorder pathway, providing support for sub-threshold presentations and maintaining clear escalation arrangements into specialist eating disorder services where clinically indicated. The service aims to support recovery, improve emotional wellbeing, prevent deterioration and reduce escalation to more intensive health and care services The proposed c…
About the supplier
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