Official UK procurement notice
Darlington Crisis House (Non-clinical service)
Authority: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust have a requirement for the provision of Darlington Crisis House (Non-clinical service).
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) provide a range of inpatient and community mental health and learning disability services for approximately 2 million people of all ages across a large geographical area.
Durham and Darlington (D&D) Adult Mental Health (AMH) crisis services would like to welcome bids from organisations to work in collaboration with the D&D Crisis and Intensive home treatment teams to create a new non-clinical service which provides support and intervention for people who experiencing a crisis. To ensure risk is managed appropriately and any immediate clinical needs are met, the new service will receive referrals from the Urgent Care Crisis service.
Stage one was a Pre Market engagement opportunity which was advertised on Find a Tender Service with an aim to input into the development for the specification and technical questions. www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/071229-2025 ↗
Stage two is a Competitive Tender Process, under Provider Selection Regime (PSR) therefore this is a two stage process. However please note the outcome of the awarded tender will be from the evaluation criteria of the Competitive Tender Process and not the Pre Market engagement opportunity.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1CancelledRenewalPublished value£2,750,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- Quality and Innovation: 30%
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice: 30%
- Value - Pricing: 5%
- Social Value: 10%
- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability: 25%
Published award criteria (5)
- Quality and Innovation
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice
- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability
- Social Value
- Value - Pricing
- Price carries 5 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 0.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Oct 2025, 12:49 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 13:56 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 7 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
C471137 Darlington Crisis House (Non-clinical service)- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089725- Latest notice
- Procurement termination notice (UK12)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d429Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
27 Oct 2025 → 1 Aug 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published366 days ago27 Oct 2025, 12:49 GMT
- Market engagement354 days ago7 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
This is market consultation under Section 16-17 of the Procurement Act 2023. The scope is to consult with the market on current system availability.
Please submit your expressions of interest and pre market engagement responses via Atamis using the following link:
atamis-1928.lightning.force.com/lightning/r/ProSpend… ↗
The deadline for the expression of interest is noon 07/11/2025
- Tender notice published36 days ago22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Latest notice published29 days ago29 Sept 2026, 13:56 BST
- Clarification questions by12 days ago16 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline5 days ago23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 40 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 276 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
11 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Oct 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Oct 2025, 12:49 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2025, 12:20 GMTUK2
- Tender notice published22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £2,291,60022 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Status changed to active22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Procurement method changed22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Deadline published: 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST22 Sept 2026, 14:57 BST
- Tender notice published24 Sept 2026, 14:02 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £2,750,00024 Sept 2026, 14:02 BSTwas £2,291,600
- Procurement termination notice published29 Sept 2026, 13:56 BSTUK12
- Status changed to cancelled29 Sept 2026, 13:56 BST
Published amendments (2)
The pre engagement closing date has been extended to 12:00 on 7th November 2025 to allow suppliers time to submit their responses.
The Trust have noticed an error on the budget of the contract, it has been amended from £2,749,920.00 net to £2,750,000.00 net (£550,000.00 per annum net) VAT is not applicable to the contract. Please note that the pricing schedule has also been revised in Atamis, refer to version 2 if submitting a bid. Thank you
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2025-11: 1 release · 5 Nov 2025
- 2025-10: 1 release · 27 Oct 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| supplier not published | — | 29 Sept 2026 | CancelledThe Trust has decided to discontinue this Provider Selection Regime Competitive Process and no contract award will be made under the current procurement exercise. The Trust has decided to abandon the current procurement process under Regulation 15 of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 due to changes in service specification requirements. No provider has been selected and no contract award will be made as a result of this procurement exercise. |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Procurement termination notice Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender