Official UK procurement notice
Suffolk Universal Health Services
Authority: NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Universal Health Services contract comprises of Learning Disability/Behavioural therapies for 0-18 yrs; coordination assessments for Children in Care (CiC) for 0-25 yrs; Enuresis support for 5-19 yrs, including continence products.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1• Learning Disability/Behavioural therapies: 0-18 yrsAwarded
- Learning Disability/Behavioural therapies: 0-18 yrs. Individualised support programs to enable Children and Young People (CYP) to remain within community and attend education. Intensive behavioural support sessions can be with a named nurse and an additional set of sessions with a support worker.
- Children in Care (CiC): 0-25 yrs. Co-ordination and carrying out Initial Health Assessments and Review Health Assessments provided through an integrated administration hub within recommended timeframes. Ensure statutory health needs of CIC are met. Specialist Looked After Children nurses.
- Enuresis (involuntary urination): 5-19 yrs. Assessment, support, and the offer of therapeutic interventions to CYP and their families. Excludes daytime wetting and complicated nocturnal enuresis.
- Continence products and administrative costs are also included as part of this.
- Contract is for 3 month period, with no option to extend.
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice. The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider.
The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Mar 2026, 14:25 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Mar 2026, 14:25 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-027384- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0673f8Find 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) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period.
Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by midnight Thursday 9th April 2026 (8 working days following publication of intention to award notice). They should be submitted in writing to procurement@snee.nhs.uk.
This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Award decision-maker:
Designate Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director of Strategy, Digital and Commissioning
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board and NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Date of award: 21st January 2026
- No conflicts of interest, or potential conflicts of interest, were declared by any decision maker.
The decision to award in line with Direct Award Process C was based on evaluation against the five required key criteria as follows:
- Quality and Innovation - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering a safe and effective service as required by the specification and contract they are currently delivering.
- Value - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering value to the integrated care system and the cost of change would not be outweighed by the potential benefit of a new provider.
- Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is positively impacting on the integrated care system through their integration and collaboration delivered as a requirement of the service.
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is meeting needs of the population to ensure equitable access and choice as required by the specification.
- Social Value - Assured - SNEE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering in line with the SNEE Green Plan, supporting with the implementation of carbon reduction and increase in initiatives which positively impact on the wider determinants of health.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk County Council | £301,602 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Suffolk Universal Health Services · Suffolk County Council
- Signed
- 21 Jan 2026
- Value
- £301,602
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Suffolk County CouncilAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.