Mental Health Prevention Services
Estimated value
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Awarded value
£4.2m
Suppliers
1
Lots
1
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 2029Possible 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.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality/ Technical Criteria | Bidders are required to read the guidance and complete the Submission Document included in the ITT pack. | quality | 70.00% |
| Price | Bidders 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. | price | 20.00% |
| Social Value | Bidders are required to read the guidance and complete the Social Value Workbook included in the ITT pack. | quality | 10.00% |
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