Contracts Finder notice
Parent Infant Mental Health Service
Authority: Kent County Council
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIn accordance with the Provider Selection Regime (Regulations 2023). Following a competitive process, the recommendation is to award the contract for Parent Infant Mental Health Service to the Real Group. As they are the provider that passed the checks conducted under the Basic Selection Criteria and provided the lowest Value per Other Key Criteria point score. This is a new Service. Parent infant relationships are prerequisite to an infant's development in the first 1001 days from conception and a time of rapid brain development. Our experiences in this period lay the foundations for a wide range of future health outcomes. Having warm, consistent, and loving care, helps promote good social and emotional development.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Buyer reference
- BIP1014024694
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Open
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- South East, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision12 Feb 2026
- Notice published13 Feb 2026
- Contract starts5 Sept 2026
- Contract ends31 Aug 2028
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Kent County CouncilContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Real Group LtdSupplier
- Business size
- SME
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-33fde193-ce0e-4941-8681-baac79eccf53-2026-02-13T15:00:11Z
- Published
- 13 Feb 2026
- Latest update
- 13 Feb 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-33fde193-ce0e-4941-8681-baac79eccf53
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-33fde193-ce0e-4941-8681-baac79eccf53-1