Opportunity overview
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will enter into a contract to deliver a programme of engagement with people who have lived experience of the Mental Health Act, ensuring their perspectives meaningfully inform the drafting of the updated Code of Practice. This includes recruiting a diverse cohort of participants, co‑producing engagement methods, delivering structured and ad hoc engagement activities, safeguarding participant wellbeing, and providing high‑quality report that include summary of engagement, feedback and views. The service is divided into 4 different lots. Values are exclusive of VAT: Lot 1: Group 1 - General lived experience Lot 2: Group 2 - Children and young people Lot 3: Group 3 – People with a learning disability and autistic people Lot 4: Group 4 - Ethnic minority and racialised communities The value of contracts (all lots) £299,680+ options £80,000 total £379,680 excluding vat. The option relates to the possibility to add additional hours of engagement if needed. Term of the contract: An initial term of twenty-one (21) months, with the option to extend for one or more further periods up to a maximum of six (6) months.
Awarded to
Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.
MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH)
- Contract value
- £109k
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 27 Jul 2026
- Including VAT
- £130.8k
- Award ID
- 1
- Status
- active
- Identifier
- GB-COH 00424348
- Location
- London, UKI41, E20 1JQ, United Kingdom
Article 39
- Contract value
- £70.5k
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 27 Jul 2026
- Including VAT
- £84.6k
- Award ID
- 2
- Status
- active
- Identifier
- GB-COH CE006945
- Location
- London, UKI31, EC1N 8UN, United Kingdom
The Public Service Consultants Limited T/A The PSC
- Contract value
- £117.8k
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 25 Jul 2026
- Including VAT
- £137.3k
- Award ID
- 3
- Status
- active
- Identifier
- GB-COH 05671510
- Location
- London, UKI32, SW1Y 5JG, United Kingdom
Rethink Mental Illness
- Contract value
- £82.4k
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 28 Jul 2026
- Including VAT
- £98.9k
- Award ID
- 4
- Status
- active
- Identifier
- GB-COH 04570581
- Location
- London,, UKI45, SE1 7GR, United Kingdom
Classification
No classification was supplied.
Lots
- Lot 1Value not stated
- Lot Lot 2Value not stated
- Lot Lot 3Value not stated
- Lot Lot 4Value not stated
Documents and notices
- Contract details notice on Find a TenderOpen source ↗