Mental Health Prevention Services

Liverpool City CouncilcontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-0554f4Procurement Act 2023Light-touch servicesSME suitableVCSE suitablepending
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Estimated value

Awarded value

£4.2m

Awarded 16 Dec 2025

Suppliers

1

Lots

1

1 awarded

Published

02 Jan 2026

Description

Liverpool City Council has commissioned a qualified and experienced organisation to deliver a range of Preventative Mental Health Services. This forms part of the Council's transformation in mental health support, focusing on strength-based reablement, improved efficiency and effectiveness, and better outcomes for service users, while helping to reduce demand on statutory services. The service will support adults experiencing mild to moderate symptoms associated with poor mental health or common mental health problems (CMHP), with the aim of preventing, reducing, and delaying the need for access to acute or crisis mental health services. Key features of the Lead Provider Mental Health Prevention Service include: - Single Point of Referral / No Wrong Door approach - Neighbourhood-based services - Scaled-up interventions that work (e.g., Peer Mentoring) with flexibility over the contract term - Expanded volunteering, education, and training opportunities, creating pathways out of services - A menu of interventions offering autonomy, choice, and control to service users based on individual assessment - Robust monitoring and outcome evaluation for continuous improvement The lead provider will work collaboratively with delivery partners to provide a streamlined, responsive, and equitable mental health prevention service, maintaining a comprehensive timetable of interventions and a broad range of preventative services, strongly based on co-production with service users.

Scope

Reference
DN780069
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
31 Mar 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
Possible extension to 31 Mar 2031

The Authority may, at its absolute discretion, and subject to additional funding becoming available to the Authority, extend this contract beyond the Initial Term by a further period or periods of up to 2 years.

CPV classifications
85323000
Contract locations
North West England, United Kingdom
Particular suitability
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Quality/ Technical CriteriaBidders are required to read the guidance and complete the Submission Document included in the ITT pack.quality70.00%
PriceBidders are required to read the guidance and complete the Pricing Schedule included in the ITT pack. Bidders are encouraged to demonstrate how their financial proposal supports a cost-effective, impactful, and sustainable service model, aligned with the Council's priorities.price20.00%
Social ValueBidders are required to read the guidance and complete the Social Value Workbook included in the ITT pack.quality10.00%

Submission & procedure

Procedure
Open procedure

Award details

Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.

Awarded value

£4.2m

Award date

16 Dec 2025

Contract start

31 Mar 2026

Contract end

31 Mar 2029

Awarded to
PS
CH 00214077