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title: "Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessments"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06efc5"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust"
published: "2026-09-01"
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# Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessments

Buyer: Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06efc5

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## Summary

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust procured autism spectrum disorder assessment and diagnosis services for children and young people aged 5 to 17 years and 11 months. The service is a new waiting-list initiative, focused on assessing and diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. It is a health service requirement, delivered across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. The Trust is based in Wolverhampton and is the organisation responsible for buying the service. The requirement is suited to providers with the clinical capability to assess children and young people for autism, diagnose where appropriate, and manage delivery across the four Black Country areas. It also concerns access to assessment, reducing health inequalities, supporting choice, and working effectively with existing children’s, community paediatric and mental health services.

The procurement has reached the award stage under the Provider Selection Regime for healthcare services, using a competitive process through a framework agreement and a limited award procedure without prior publication of a competition notice. The contract was awarded to Staff Partners Mental Health Ltd trading as Everywhere Health, with an award date of 28 August 2026 and a contract value of £1,113,750. The contract was signed on 28 August 2026 and runs from September 2026 to March 2027, with options for two further 12-month extensions, subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability, potentially extending delivery to March 2029. Nine bids were recorded. Evaluation considered value on a pass/fail basis, quality and innovation at 20%, integration, collaboration and sustainability at 30%, access, health inequalities and choice at 40%, and social value at 10%.

This award shows demand for specialist child and adolescent autism assessment and diagnosis delivered at scale across the Black Country. A credible future supplier would need suitably qualified clinical teams able to assess children and young people aged 5 to 17 years and 11 months, manage waiting-list demand, and provide consistent services across Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Strong performance would depend on improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating informed choice, alongside effective integration and collaboration with commissioning, community paediatrics, children’s services and child and adolescent mental health services. Providers should also demonstrate service sustainability, practical innovation and measurable social value. The successful supplier was selected because its written bid achieved the highest evaluation score, so competing organisations would need evidence addressing each weighted quality and delivery requirement.

## Notice

Autism Spectrum Disorder Assessment Services

### Lot Information

Lot 1

This notice is an intention to award a contract based on a framework agreement under the competitive process. This contract is for a new service (waiting list initiative) being awarded to a new provider for Autism Spectrum Disorder assessment and diagnosis services for children and young people (5 years - 17 years and 11 months). The value of the contract in total is PS1,113,750 with the main activity to be delivered Sept-Mar 2027. There is the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month periods, subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability, to Mar-29.

Options: There is the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month periods, subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability, to Mar-29.

### Procurement Information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. This notice is an intention to award a contract based on a framework agreement under the competitive process.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082775-2026 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £1,113,750 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Locality | WOLVERHAMPTON |
| Postcode area | Wolverhampton |
| Postcode | WV1 1SH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG39 Wolverhampton |
| Local authority | Wolverhampton |
| Electoral ward | St Peters |
| Westminster constituency | Wolverhampton West |
| Delivery location | TLG36 Dudley, TLG37 Sandwell, TLG38 Walsall, TLG39 Wolverhampton |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Staff Partners Mental Health Limited |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 1 Sep 2026 at 15:32 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/082775-2026

## Notice URLs

- https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/

## Provenance

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