---
title: "Suspected Suicide Surveillance System (Public Health)"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06e64a"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Blackpool Borough Council"
published: "2026-08-18"
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# Suspected Suicide Surveillance System (Public Health)

Buyer: Blackpool Borough Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06e64a

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## Summary

Blackpool Borough Council procured a suspected suicide surveillance system for use with multi-agency partners. The system supports real-time recording, surveillance and reporting of suspected suicides, helping partners understand incidents, derive lessons, take action to reduce suicides, provide bereavement support, and inform prevention and postvention activity. The requirement is educational software, specifically a suicide surveillance platform supplied by Quality Education Solutions Limited. Delivery is for Blackpool, within the council’s public health activities. The system is intended to support collaboration between the council and partner agencies, so relevant providers should be able to deliver a shared platform that enables information to be recorded, reviewed and reported across organisations.

The procurement is complete and was awarded on 29 July 2026 to Quality Education Solutions Limited. The contract is active and covers one requirement. It was a below-threshold direct award without competition, with the council stating that it could not identify alternative providers through online searches or communication with other local authorities. The contract runs from 29 July 2026 to 30 June 2036 and was signed on 29 July 2026. Its value is £69,905 excluding VAT and £83,940 including VAT. The procurement description gives an annual system cost of £6,995. The award and contract concern the complete suspected suicide surveillance system requirement, evaluated through the council’s direct-award rationale rather than a competitive tender.

This award demonstrates demand from Blackpool Borough Council for specialist software supporting public health surveillance of suspected suicides. Competitors seeking comparable future work would need a proven system for real-time incident recording, surveillance and reporting, with functionality that enables several agencies to collaborate securely around sensitive public health information. Credible suppliers would also need to show that their platform can turn recorded information into lessons and intelligence that support suicide prevention, postvention planning and bereavement support. Experience working with councils, public health teams and multi-agency partners would be relevant, as would the capacity to provide a reliable long-term software service, maintain the system and support users across participating organisations.

## Notice

The Suspected Suicide Surveillance System is to be provided to the Council to be used along with multi-agency partners to support the real-time recording, surveillance and reporting of suspected suicides. The Quality Education Solutions (QES) provide a Suicide Surveillance system that enables multi-agency collaboration to understand, derive lessons from, and take action to reduce suicides, offer bereavement support and inform prevention and postvention activity. It has not been possible to find any alternative providers either through online search or communication with other LAs. The annual cost of the system is PS6,995.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078417-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - without competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Contract period | 29 Jul 2026 - 30 Jun 2036 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £69,905 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Blackpool Borough Council |
| Locality | BLACKPOOL |
| Postcode area | Blackpool |
| Postcode | FY1 1NB |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLD4 Lancashire |
| ITL 3 | TLD42 Blackpool |
| Local authority | Blackpool |
| Electoral ward | Talbot |
| Westminster constituency | Blackpool South |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | QUALITY EDUCATION SOLUTIONS LIMITED |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 48190000 - Educational software package

## Release History

- 18 Aug 2026 at 10:38 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078417-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078417-2026
  18th August 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.blackpool.gov.uk
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.qes-online.co.uk/

## Provenance

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