Official UK procurement notice
South West London Mental Health Support Teams
Authority: NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS South West London Integrated Care Board (the Authority) is seeking to commission a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) service comprising 25 operational and developing MHSTs across the six boroughs. The service will provide prevention and early intervention mental health support through a standardised and equitable MHST offer, in accordance with the specified requirements, to improve access to care, reduce health inequalities, and deliver improved outcomes for children and young people across South West London.
Procured through a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, the Authority intends to appoint a Lead Provider with overall accountability for the governance, management, and delivery of the service.
The Lead Provider will oversee all operational and developing MHSTs across South West London and will be responsible for the mobilisation, delivery and service integration of future MHST teams required as part of the planned expansion to achieve 100% MHST coverage across South West London by December 2029.
The decisions applicable to this Procurement will be made by the Authority.
The Procurement is being managed by NHS London Commercial Hub (NHS LCH) hosted by NHS North East London, on behalf of the Authority, in connection with an Invitation to Tender (ITT) exercise that is being conducted, based on the competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) regulations 2023 ("the Regulations"(as amended).
None of the references to "ITT", "Bid", or the use of the term "tender process", or any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the Regulations, save those applicable to PSR provisions regarding the Competitive Process.
Further information regarding the Authority is available from:
www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk ↗
The lifetime Value of the contract is £89,916,960 excluding VAT.
The contract term is for three (3) years with an option for extension of further three (1 + 1 + 1) years at the sole discretion of the Authority.
The contract will start on 01/04/2027 and end 31/03/2030, if the 1 + 1 + 1 optional extensions are utilised the maximum contract end date will be 31/03/2033.
The maximum duration of the contract is 6 years (72 months).
Further details of the procurement, including service requirements are included in the procurement documents.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Procured via a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection…Published value£89,916,960
Procured via a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR) the Procurement process will be facilitated entirely online via Atamis, the Authority's e procurement portal.
Bidders need to register on Atamis if they are not registered already.
This can be done by clicking the link below:
atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
Once you are registered and logged in to Atamis you can find the project by searching the following the link:
atamis-1928.my.salesforce-sites.com/ProSpend__CS_Contrac… ↗
Please note that any submission of bids by any other means will not be considered.
Bidders are required to complete the online questionnaires and submit their tender bid hosted on the portal prior to the deadline for submission of 2nd November 2026 Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice inviting offers under the Competitive process (The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, Regulation 11).
The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For avoidance of doubt the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.
The Procurement is being managed by the NHS London Commercial Hub (NHS LCH) hosted by NEL ICB, on behalf of the Authority, in connection with a competitive Invitation to Tender (ITT) exercise that is being conducted via a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
A provider engagement event will be held on 13/10/26 at 2:00pm GMT.
Interested providers can follow this link to register:
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Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality (Please see ITT documents for full detail): 90%
- price: 10%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality (Please see ITT documents for full detail): 90
- Price: 10
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 10 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1 point. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £179,833,920 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS SOUTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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1 bid25% / 32%
2–350% / 32%
4–625% / 23%
7+0% / 13%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate67% / 39%
Within ±2%33% / 54%
Above estimate0% / 7%
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Lot #1Procured via a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection…CPV 8510Published estimate£90m
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1 bid6%
2–338%
4–644%
7+12%
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Based on 115 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
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Middle 50%£81m–£88m
Estimate£90m
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| CognusEarlier contract | Mental Health Support Teams Suttonnotice published May 2025 | — | £165k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £175m81 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 3 live · £15m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 3% above n=1 | |
| £87m25 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 1 live · £150k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=7 | |
The Forward TrustLarge | £146m16 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 6 live · £41m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 |
| £12m23 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 11 live · £7.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=10 | |
| £2.7m11 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 4 live · £3.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
60% title match.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
60% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (60% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Mental Health Support Teams Sutton — held by Cognus; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 6 Oct 2026, 15:26 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 15:26 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 3 Nov 2026 – …
- Authority reference
PRJ2233- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094372- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0781e5Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Atamis (Health Family)- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 360 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 3 Nov 2026, 07:00 GMT
Timeline
6 Oct 2026 → 3 Nov 2026 · 3 dates- Notice published22 days ago6 Oct 2026, 15:26 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 4 days2 Nov 2026
- Bids openedin 5 days3 Nov 2026, 07:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria