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HAC5997: Children & Young People’s Health & Wellbeing Service

Tower Hamlets · compiled

Tender information last checkedLast checked 29 Sept 2026, 19:36.

Opportunity overview

London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Tower Hamlets) is looking to procure a suitable provider to deliver Children & Young People’s Health & Wellbeing Service. The contract will be for an initial term of 3 years with optional extensions of a maximum further 4 years. The extensions will consist of 2 years each. The estimated value of the total 7 year term is £16,800,000.

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.

Compass

Match pending…
Contract value
£14m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
15 Jan 2025
Award ID
043437-2025-HAC5997-1
Status
active
Location
York, UK, YO26 6RW, United Kingdom

Barnardo Services Limited

Matched by exact name
Contract value
£2.8m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
16 Jul 2025
Award ID
043437-2025-HAC5997-2
Status
active
Location
Ilford, Essex, UK, IG6 1QG, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV85000000 — Health and social work services
  • CPV85100000 — Health services

Lots

  • Enhanced Public Health Nursing Service£14m
  • Enabling Community Health Outcomes£2.8m
  • Joint Service Provision£16.8m

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
HAC5997
Status
complete
Has Recurrence
No
Review Details
The Contracting Authority will observe a 10-day stand still period following the aware of the contract and conduct itself in respect of any appeals in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended)
Procurement Method
open
Main Procurement Category
services
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure

Covered By

GPA

Bid Opening

Date
30 Sept 2024, 12:00

Legal basis

Id
32014L0024
Scheme
CELEX

Lot Details

Award Criteria Details
It is anticipated that there may be overheads cost savings should both services be provided by a single provider, however, the Council need confidence that a single specialist provider is capable of delivery quality across both elements. Only Lots 1 and 2 or Lot 3 will be awarded, not both. The procurement process, and resulting scores, as set out in this ITT will be used to determine whether Lots 1 and 2 or Lot 3 should be awarded. Please note, Bidders can tender for all Lots, however, only Lot 1 and Lot 2 or Lot 3 will be awarded. Under no circumstances will all three Lots be awarded
Maximum Lots Bid Per Supplier
9,999,999

Expected award period

Starts
30 Sept 2024, 12:00

Tender Period

Ends
30 Sept 2024, 12:00

Contract terms

Performance Terms
As detailed in accompanying tender documents

Classification

Id
85000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health and social work services

Submission terms

Languages

en

Bid Validity Period

Duration In Days
90

Submission Method

electronicSubmission

Selection criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Type
suitability
Description
The Lot 1 Provider is required to: • have a workforce of fully trained and qualified professionals in a number of roles that support the development of staff, strategic direction, quality assurance, and administrative and IT support in the service. • demonstrate effective workforce planning, professional registration and supervision and continued professional development. • ensure sufficient cover when there are annual leave commitments, vacancies, sickness, or other absence, including the use of agency staff when required. • ensure a skill mix school health team is led by SCHPN and includes nurses registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on part 1 or 2, additional specialist public health qualifications, and staff registered on part 3 of the NMC register. • develop lead roles for pathways that promote and increase integration between other services and take on a higher level of intervention such as one-to-one clinical sessions. • have other non-specialist roles to deliver education and training programmes, outreach work and mobilisation and engagement of young people with the service. • share resources and skill mix across the need areas identified whilst recognising that particular specialisms do exist. • ensure the workforce provides a single point of holistic care for young people and be involved in regular networking to secure excellent partnership across agencies. Management structures shall reflect on Multi-Disciplinary Teams rather than particular professional groups. • identify and support qualified nurses who are interested in developing specialisms that meet the needs of the service. • recruit highly trained and competent young people practitioners who shall have competencies in a range of topics and in some cases in specific specialisms. • provide assurances and evidence that school nurses, and their teams shall meet the legal requirements for professional registration and revalidation and shall align with the statutory requirements for practice issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on revalidation requirements. Sexual health service provision (clinical elements) shall be delivered by staff who are appropriately trained and have the following qualifications: • Registered Nurse (Adult) • Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) • DFRSH in contraception • FRSH Letter of Competence in Subdermal Contraceptive Implant Techniques • FRSH intrauterine device (IUD) fitting Staff working with young people in schools and the community shall have the relevant qualifications in substance misuse, youth work, psychology, counselling or mental health; such as a Diploma in Youth Work, Social work, Psychology or accredited Counselling or equivalent NVQ Level 4 in Children, Young People or families, social care or mental health. All practitioners providing a service for the insertion of coils (IUCD / IUS) and subdermal contraceptive implants shall have appropriate training as per the current requirements set out by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FSRH) for the Letter of Competence in Intrauterine Techniques (LoC IUT) or the Letter of Competence in Subdermal Contraceptive Implant Techniques (LoC SDI). People with needs relating to STIs shall have their care managed by appropriately skilled healthcare professionals. Best practice is considered to be: • Practice and network Clinical leads shall have attended a Sexually Transmitted Infections Foundation (STIF) theory course (or equivalent theory course) in the last three years, be registered on the BASHH STIF Intermediate Competency database (or have an equivalent and up to date competency qualification) and attend a recognised sexual health training event at least once per year (e.g. local PLT). • All other doctors and nurses providing sexual health services shall also have attended a STIF Core course in the last three years. • Where allied health professionals are carrying out STI screening it is recommended that they receive relevant training within 12 months of starting (e.g. local PLT). Alternatively, this can be provided by the practice or the network sexual health leads. • LARC – Practitioners shall undertake the required number of fittings to retain their competence.

Applies To

supplier

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Title
Enhanced Public Health Nursing Service
Status
cancelled
Has Options
Yes
Has Renewal
No
Description
Tower Hamlets are seeking expressions of interest from suitably skilled and experienced suppliers to deliver the services required by this contract: • Primary-school aged children (5-11 years), whether in full time education at a mainstream school or educated other than at school. 4-year-olds attending schools in Reception year will also be eligible for this element • 11-19 year olds and in full time education at a mainstream school, educated other than at school or not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET), and up to 25 years for young people with SEND or care experience. 5-11 years: The service offer will be similar to the existing school health service, whereby school nurses lead a skill-mix workforce to deliver the Healthy Child Programme. Activities include school-entry health assessments, hearing and vision screening, height- and weight-assessments in Reception and Year 6, support for schools in managing medical conditions and training. 11-19 years: This service offer merges the current school nursing provision for secondary schools with the current ‘Safe East’ provision. The service will be community-based (for example in youth services) with in-reach into secondary schools, providing different ways for young people to access health support: in schools, community settings, and through text messaging and online provision. This service element will support schools to develop support plans for children with health conditions, health needs assessments for new starters and training; plus health promotion workshops, brief interventions, C-card condom scheme, You’re Welcome accreditation for young people-friendly settings, Tier 2 and some Tier 3 sexual health services, Tier 2 and 3 substance misuse treatment and smoking cessation support. Dedicated support for children in the youth justice service will also continue The successful provider will enter into contract with Tower Hamlets utilising their standard T&Cs (included in tender pack) for an initial term of 3 years, with a maximum optional extension of 4 years. Tower Hamlets are following the Open procurement procedure in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Full information can be found in the attached tender documentation

Value

Amount
14,000,000
Currency
GBP

Options

Description
Contract Start Date: 01/04/2025 Contract End Date:31/03/2028 Contract Duration: 36 months Optional extensions: 24+24 months

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
price is not the only criterion
Type
cost
Description
0

Contract period

Duration In Days
2,520

Submission terms

Variant Policy
notAllowed
Entry 2
Id
2
Title
Enabling Community Health Outcomes
Status
cancelled
Has Options
Yes
Has Renewal
No
Description
Tower Hamlets are seeking expressions of interest from suitably skilled and experienced suppliers to deliver the services required by this contract This is an innovative element to the contract that has developed from reflections about the determinants of inequalities in deaths, ill-health including trust in institutions that have underpinned health inequalities for many decades, but which were tragically highlighted in the Covid-19 pandemic. It also seeks to enable the type of agile responses that brought partners together in the pandemic to respond quickly and effectively to future health and wellbeing issues. The enablers of improved outcomes and reduced inequalities include a dedicated focus on system leadership, co-production, evaluation and culturally appropriate communication resulting in an innovative child-centred service that meets local need. This element will also support the service to deliver community benefits which will include work-experience, mentoring and apprenticeships (with a focus on children in care, young people with care experience and older children outside mainstream education) Engagement work to date has highlighted that these activities are wished for but may be seen as an additional burden on top of day-to-day delivery of services. This element aims to invest in capacity to maximise community benefit and social value and will drive service development in the other elements of the service, to ensure that the whole service continues to evolve in response to community needs. By delineating it as a discrete service element with committed investment, the delivery of providers’ social value pledges at tender stage can be more rigorously assured through contract management processes The successful provider will enter into contract with Tower Hamlets utilising their standard T&Cs (included in tender pack) for an initial term of 3 years, with a maximum optional extension of 4 years. Tower Hamlets are following the Open procurement procedure in accordance with the Public Contracts Register 2015. Full information can be found in the attached tender documentation.

Value

Amount
2,800,000
Currency
GBP

Options

Description
Contract Start Date: 01/04/2025 Contract End Date:31/03/2028 Contract Duration: 36 months Optional extensions: 24+24 months

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
price is not the only criterion
Type
cost
Description
0

Contract period

Duration In Days
2,520

Submission terms

Variant Policy
notAllowed
Entry 3
Id
3
Title
Joint Service Provision
Status
cancelled
Has Options
Yes
Has Renewal
No
Description
Tower Hamlets are seeking expressions of interest from suitably skilled and experienced suppliers to deliver the services required by this contract Feedback from the market engagement has been mixed in relation to delivery of the services under Lot 1 and Lot 2 by the same provider. Therefore, a third Lot (for the provision of both service areas by one provider) has been added to the procurement structure. The services for this are detailed in Lots 1 & 2. It is anticipated that there may be overheads cost savings should both services be provided by a single provider, however, the Council need confidence that a single specialist provider is capable of delivery quality across both elements. The successful provider will enter into contract with Tower Hamlets utilising their standard T&Cs (included in tender pack) for an initial term of 3 years, with a maximum optional extension of 4 years. Tower Hamlets are following the Open procurement procedure in accordance with the Public Contracts Register 2015. Full information can be found in the attached tender documentation.

Value

Amount
16,800,000
Currency
GBP

Options

Description
Contract Start Date: 01/04/2025 Contract End Date:31/03/2028 Contract Duration: 36 months Optional extensions: 24+24 months

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
price is not the only award criterion
Type
quality
Description
0
Criterion 2
Type
price

Contract period

Duration In Days
2,520

Submission terms

Variant Policy
notAllowed

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKI
Entry 2
Region
UKI

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health and social work services
Item 2
Id
2
Related Lot
2

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKI
Entry 2
Region
UKI

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85100000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health services
Item 3
Id
3
Related Lot
3

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKI
Entry 2
Region
UKI

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85100000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health services

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
economic
Document Type
economicSelectionCriteria
Entry 2
Id
technical
Document Type
technicalSelectionCriteria

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-FTS-99595
Name
Tower Hamlets

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKI
Locality
London
Postal Code
E1 1BJ
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
New Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road London

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
REGIONAL_AUTHORITY
Scheme
TED_CA_TYPE
Description
Regional or local authority
Entry 2
Id
01
Scheme
COFOG
Description
General public services

Identifier

Legal Name
Tower Hamlets

Contact

Name
Mr Simon Waller
Telephone
+44 2073644013
Organisation 2
Id
GB-FTS-726
Name
High Court of England and Wales

Roles

reviewBody
mediationBody

Address

Locality
London
Postal Code
WC2A 2LL
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
The Strand

Identifier

Legal Name
High Court of England and Wales
Organisation 3
Id
GB-FTS-137
Name
Cabinet Office

Roles

reviewContactPoint

Address

Locality
London
Postal Code
SW1A 2AS
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
70 Whitehall

Identifier

Legal Name
Cabinet Office
Organisation 4
Id
GB-FTS-155774
Name
Compass

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UK
Locality
York
Postal Code
YO26 6RW
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
2nd Floor, Marlborough House, Westminster Place

Details

Scale
sme

Identifier

Legal Name
Compass
Organisation 5
Id
GB-FTS-155775
Name
Barnardo Services Limited

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UK
Locality
Ilford, Essex
Postal Code
IG6 1QG
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Tanners Lane, Barkingside

Details

Scale
large

Identifier

Legal Name
Barnardo Services Limited
Organisation 6
Id
GB-FTS-88
Name
Royal Courts of Justice

Roles

reviewBody

Address

Locality
London
Postal Code
WC2A 2LL
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Strand

Identifier

Legal Name
Royal Courts of Justice

Award information

Award 1
Id
043437-2025-HAC5997-1
Status
active

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-FTS-155774
Name
Compass

Related lots

1
Award 2
Id
043437-2025-HAC5997-2
Status
active

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-FTS-155775
Name
Barnardo Services Limited

Related lots

2
Award 3
Id
043437-2025-HAC5997: Children & Young People’s Health & Wellbeing Service Lot 3-3
Status
unsuccessful
Status Details
discontinued

Related lots

3

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
043437-2025-HAC5997-1
Status
active
Award ID
043437-2025-HAC5997-1
Date Signed
15 Jan 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
14,000,000
Currency
GBP
Entry 2
Id
043437-2025-HAC5997-2
Status
active
Award ID
043437-2025-HAC5997-2
Date Signed
17 Jul 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
2,800,000
Currency
GBP

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · London · UKI · E1 1BJ · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKI

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
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