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Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Essex County Council

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21 Sep 2026 at 17:08

UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Essex County Council commissioned a specialist service to design and guide a structured, co-produced process for early intervention and prevention in emotional wellbeing and mental health across the life course. The work supports the prevention and early intervention pillar of the Essex, Southend and Thurrock Mental Health Strategy and is intended to identify a small number of priority actions for collaboration. It brings together the council’s Public Health, Adult Social Care and Children and Families services with the Essex Integrated Care Board. The requirement is business analysis consultancy focused on mental health and wellbeing strategy, partnership working and service improvement. Delivery is for Essex, within the wider Essex, Southend and Thurrock area. The buying organisation is Essex County Council.

The procurement has been awarded following a completed below-threshold limited competition. One lot was awarded to the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a voluntary, community and social enterprise and small or medium-sized enterprise. The contract was signed on 18 September 2026 and runs from 21 September to 21 December 2026. Its value is £47,500 excluding VAT, or £57,000 including VAT. The selected supplier is providing the full requirement as an active contract. The process used a limited procedure rather than an open competition, reflecting its below-threshold status. The award concerns business analysis consultancy services for the single mental health and wellbeing early-intervention requirement; the published outcome identifies one supplier and one contract.

This procurement demonstrates demand from Essex County Council for independent consultancy that can turn complex mental health strategy into a small number of practical, jointly owned priorities. A credible future competitor would need experience of early intervention and prevention in emotional wellbeing or mental health, alongside the ability to work across Public Health, Adult Social Care, children’s services and an Integrated Care Board. Strong capability in business analysis, facilitation and co-production would be important, including engaging partners across the life course and translating evidence and stakeholder input into agreed actions. The award to a specialist social-care institute indicates that subject expertise, public-sector partnership skills and a social-value or mission-led approach may be relevant when this type of requirement next reaches the market.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Notice Description

Essex County Council (ECC), in partnership with Public Health (PH), Adult Social Care (ASC), Children & Families (C&F), and the Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB), is seeking to commission an organisation to design and guide a structured, co-produced process to identify a small number of priority actions for collaboration between partners on early intervention and prevention in emotional wellbeing and mental health across the life course. This requirement relates to the early intervention and prevention pillar of the Essex, Southend and Thurrock (SET) Mental Health Strategy (2023). To date, system partners have focused primarily on acute, crisis and recovery work. ECC now intends to progress the prevention and early intervention commitments.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0776de
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/089350-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK7 - Contract Details Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Below threshold - limited competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

CPV Codes

72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£47,500 Under £100K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
21 Sep 20262 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
21 Sep 2026 - 21 Dec 2026 1-6 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Essex County Council
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
CHELMSFORD
Postcode
CM1 1QH
Postcode Area
Chelmsford
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLH East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLH3 Essex
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLH36 Heart of Essex
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Chelmsford
Electoral Ward
Moulsham and Central
Westminster Constituency
Chelmsford

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

Social Care Institute for Excellence

Further Information

Notice Documents

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