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
- Wigan Council · Regional or local authority
- Value
- £245,895
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Feb 2025
- Published13 Mar 2025Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
Wigan Council's Children Services are adopting the Family Safeguarding Model which will, work together, with the whole family, to keep more children safe at home with their families, supporting them to make and sustain positive change. Family Safeguarding takes a multi-disciplinary approach to working with children and families including Social Workers, Children and Family Practitioners, working alongside specialist adult workers including Adult Recovery Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Domestic Abuse officers and Mental Health Practitioners to provide help and support in relation to known issues associated with the reasons and triggers for child safeguarding concerns - parental domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental ill health issues. In Wigan the Mental Health Workers will be a Commissioned Service. The Mental Health Workers will undertake mental health screening and needs assessment to ascertain the appropriate intervention and provide the appropriate interventions neede…
About the supplier
Greater Manchester Mental Health Nhs Foundation Trust: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 06869670).