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Employee Assistance Programme 2025

National Highways · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

National Highways are at the early stages of understanding market capability in respect of Employee Assistance Programme providers. This is in advance of the current contractual agreement for these services expiring in 2026. The types of services envisaged under this contract include (but are not limited to), • Psychological Treatment including counselling, other talking therapies provided via telephone, web chat and face to face, online self-directed and supported counselling and EMDR • Psychological assessments • Trauma and Critical Incident Support • Support and guidance for Mental Health First Aiders including ongoing support, development and guidance • National coverage 24/7, 365 days a year – EAP helpline and APP availability • Education and Awareness Programmes • Publicity and Promotion • Functionality of organisational engagement for team challenges with the ability to access data • Chat functions (on app) with non-AI solutions • Common occurrence and conditions toolkits for managers and individuals for self-management and signposting • Bespoke specialist support materials • On-site training as required • Financial Wellbeing • Legal services support • Addiction support • People manager and senior leader specialist communications • Robust complaints / feedback process National Highways now wish to understand the current market offering for these types of services, including capacity and mobilisation timescales. Please note the values are estimates only at this stage and it is likely that the actual values will be somewhere between £450,000 and £540,000 (including VAT) for the whole life of the contract, including any extensions. Alongside this Notice, National Highways have published a survey for interested suppliers to take part in. Details of which can be found below. Once the closing date for responses have passed, we will analyse the results and this will inform a procurement, the details of which are still to be determined. Any learning gained from this early engagement will be shared with interested parties. Routes to market under existing Frameworks that are available to National Highways are being appraised separately.

Classification

  • CPV85147000 — Company health services

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

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
ocds-h6vhtk-0512d0
Status
planning
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
services

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Communication

Future Notice Date
1 Oct 2025, 23:59

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning
Has Renewal
Yes

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Ends
31 Mar 2029, 23:59
Starts
1 Apr 2026, 00:00
Max Extent Date
31 Mar 2031, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85147000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Company health services

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
021154-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
14 May 2025, 11:12

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
27 Jun 2025, 23:59
Description
National Highways would like interested suppliers to take part in a survey https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=sp9QKa9_i0-3ojL5bsXebBEkYvg9WydBnI76oHpzESBUMFpIR1lOMzhFRE9ENzkxNThBTThETFdCUy4u Responses to the survey will be accepted until the Engagement Deadline of Friday 27th June 2025 at mid-day.

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-COH-09346363
Name
National Highways

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKJ25
Country
GB
Locality
Guildford
Postal Code
GU1 4LZ
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - central government

Identifier

Id
09346363
Scheme
GB-COH

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Guildford · UKJ25 · GU1 4LZ · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UK · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

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