Tender

Pre-Birth Service for Expectant Parents

  • Torfaen County Borough Council

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-080060

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05ef78

Published 5 December 2025, 11:18am

Scope

Description

The Pre-birth service will deliver early, trauma-informed, and relationship-based support to expectant parents facing significant challenges, with the goal of reducing the number of infants entering care. The service will offer bespoke one-to-one and group-based interventions, with the aim of empowering families to build resilience, improve parenting capacity, and address issues such as domestic abuse, substance misuse, mental health, and housing instability. The service will be delivered by a multi-agency team including a consultant social worker, midwife, father's worker and family support workers, providing holistic, wraparound care.

Total value (estimated)

  • £711,170 excluding VAT
  • £711,170 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 16 March 2026 to 15 March 2028
  • 2 years

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Participation

Particular suitability

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
  • Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Submission

Enquiry deadline

7 January 2026, 12:00pm

Tender submission deadline

23 January 2026, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

https://www.proactisplaza.com/

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

  • Welsh
  • English

Award decision date (estimated)

12 March 2026

Award criteria

This table contains award criteria for this lot
Name Type Weighting
Pre-Birth Services for Expectant Parents Quality 100.00%

Other information

Applicable trade agreements

  • Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes

Procedure

Procedure type

Open procedure

Special regime

Light touch

Justification for not publishing a preliminary market engagement notice

A market engagement was not carried out

Contracting authority

Torfaen County Borough Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PDNG-5431-HGYV

Civic Centre

Torfaen

NP4 0LS

United Kingdom

Email: SHarry@cardiff.gov.uk

Website: http://www.torfaen.gov.uk

Region: UKL16 - Gwent Valleys

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government

Devolved regulations that apply: Wales