Official UK procurement notice
Adult Mental Health in patient in area acute beds
Authority: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMental Health Acute in-patient beds:
Provision of mental health care services for those who present with an acute mental illness and who cannot be treated in their own homes or in community settings and will have been assessed as at significant risk of an event happening to themselves or others.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The aims of these services is to provide high quality, holistic care for service users…Awarded
The aims of these services is to provide high quality, holistic care for service users in the most acute and vulnerable state of their illness. This will be provided in collaboration with service users, carers, and statutory and non-statutory organisations to ensure that any admissions and inpatient episodes are timely and appropriate.
The key aims are to:
- Provide a variety of psychosocial, psychiatric and therapeutic activities, in line with NICE Guidelines relevant to the presenting need of the service user.
- Provide assessments, treatment and multidisciplinary care, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to service users experiencing acute mental health problems.
- Ensure that service users are in inpatient care for the minimum time necessary, supporting the service user to maintain their links in the community where possible and practical
- Where relevant maintain or create links with primary care to ensure that the service user's GP is updated on patient care at the time of assessment, admission, care plan review and any changes to care provided, where there is a significant change in a service user's clinical presentation and/or risk and receives a discharge summary following discharge in line with NSFT's discharge policy.
- The Provider will ensure that there is a collaborative approach to care planning with NSFT and other care providers including the service users support network as they identify.
- The Provider will operate within the legal frameworks.
These services are to made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Feb 2024, 16:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Apr 2025, 12:15 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-016750- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043b8fFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
Decision makers are: Operational Flow and Capacity Lead, Contract Manager, Finance Manager, Head of Procurement.
Contract value - £335000 on an interim basis until the end of March 2024.
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Decision makers are: Operational Flow and Capacity Lead, Contract Manager, Finance Manager, Head of Procurement. Contract value - £485086.20 on an interim basis until the end of March 2025.
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated24 Apr 2025, 12:15 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priory Group LtdAdult Mental Health Acute in-patient Beds and Services | £355,000 † | — | Awarded |
| Priory Group Ltd | £840,086 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 016750-2025-003-1 · Priory Group Ltd
- Signed
- 28 Mar 2025
- Value
- £840,086
- Status
- active
- Change Extension of previous contract for additional 59 days, Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: Delay to opening date off new on site facility that will facilitate these patients
Adult Mental Health Acute in-patient Beds and Services · Priory Group Ltd
- Signed
- 1 Feb 2024
- Value
- £355,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeBidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Priory GroupAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.