Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
8th Floor, County Hall, Martineau Lane
Norwich
NR1 2DH
Contact
Karen Martin
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKH15 - Norwich and East Norfolk
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.improvinglivesnw.org.uk/
Buyer's address
https://www.improvinglivesnw.org.uk/
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Informed Therapeutic Pathway and Supervision
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (referred to as the Commissioner) invited suitably qualified and experienced providers to express their interest in the provision of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed therapy service.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £3,855,000
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKH1 - East Anglia
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (referred to as the Commissioner) invited suitably qualified and experienced providers to express their interest in the provision of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed therapy service.
The aim of this service is to provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informed therapy for 5-18s, delivered by a team of Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs), Senior CWPs and other senior roles, including management and clinical supervision.
Clinical supervision will also be provided for a team of CWPs embedded within Norfolk County Council.
CWPs are trained to offer guided self-help to children, young people and families with mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and common behavioural problems.
The brief focused evidence-based interventions provided by CWPs are in the form of low intensity support and guided self-help to young people who demonstrate mild/moderate:
Anxiety (primary and secondary school age)
Low mood (adolescents)
Common behavioural difficulties (working with parents for under 8s).
Delivery of CBT informed therapy expected outcomes:
In line with Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) principles this service provision should seek to improve services to children, young people (CYP) and their families through:
• Better evidence-based practice - increasing the availability and knowledge of best evidence-based interventions
• Better collaborative practice - goal focused and client centred interventions, using feedback tools to facilitate better working between mental health professionals and families and young people, leading to more personalised care
• Improved service user participation - children, young people and their families having a voice and influence at all levels of the organisation
• Improved cross agency working - encouraging and supporting cross agency collaboration between Health, Social Care and the voluntary and independent sectors
• More accountable services - through the rigorous monitoring of clinical outcomes to be able to share outcomes with young people and families and demonstrate effectiveness to commissioners
• Increased awareness - working in partnership with organisations delivering mental health services, and those in other sectors working with young people and families to increase understanding of the importance of well-being and decrease stigma.
The provider of this project will commit to working collaboratively with children and young people's mental health (CYPMH) and wider health, education and care system partners and adopt a Thrive approach for CYP accessing mental health (MH) services
Clinical supervision expected outcomes:
• CWPs within relevant services receive the required level of clinical supervision, mentoring and support by an appropriately trained clinical supervisor in line with British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) accreditation requirements
• CWPs receive a positive experience and are well supported
This is an initial 3 year contract with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion - Name: Technical Quality / Weighting: 100
Cost criterion - Name: Cost / Weighting: 0
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2023/S 000-017228
Section five. Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
13 June 2025
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Ormiston Families
333 Fleixstowe Road Ipswich Suffolk
Suffolk
IP3 9BU
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKH1 - East Anglia
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £3,855,000
Lowest offer: £3,855,000 / Highest offer: £3,855,000 taken into consideration
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
NHS England
Wellington House, 133-135 Waterloo Rd
London
SE1 8UG
Country
United Kingdom