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title: "Winter Pressure Funding"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06f8d2"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust"
published: "2026-09-14"
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# Winter Pressure Funding

Buyer: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06f8d2

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## Summary

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust bought children and young people’s mental health winter-pressure services for the West Midlands. The work is intended to strengthen support and management for children and young people presenting to emergency departments and acute pathways. Expected outcomes include reducing avoidable mental-health attendances, supporting rapid and safe discharge from A&E, reducing avoidable emergency admissions to general acute or mental-health hospitals, and enabling earlier discharge from general or specialist mental-health hospitals. The procurement category is psychiatric hospital services. Delivery covers Birmingham and the wider West Midlands, including services associated with Birmingham and Solihull and Coventry and Warwickshire. The selected providers are Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.

The procurement is complete and three contracts were awarded through the urgent Provider Selection Regime route, without prior publication of a competition notice, because of increased winter demand for emergency-department mental-health support. Price was the stated evaluation criterion, with one bid recorded for each award. Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust received a contract worth £1,833,980; Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust received two contracts worth £229,042 for mental-health liaison and £169,800 for capacity and demand. All three contracts were signed on 8 September 2026 and are active. They run from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. The process was approved by the Toucan Senior Leadership Team and a Partnership Working Group on 8 September 2026.

This award demonstrates demand for integrated children’s and young people’s mental-health support across emergency, acute and specialist mental-health pathways. Suppliers well placed for a future requirement would need to provide clinical and operational capability for mental-health liaison, capacity and demand management, safe discharge and admission avoidance, and coordination with emergency departments and hospitals. The selected organisations are large NHS mental-health providers, indicating that credibility includes substantial service capacity, established acute-pathway relationships and the ability to respond to seasonal pressure across more than one locality. Relevant competitors should be able to show how their services reduce avoidable attendances and admissions while supporting timely discharge, with delivery arrangements suitable for Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Warwickshire and the wider West Midlands.

## Notice

Toucan have identified a need to support CYP Mental Health Winter Pressures. This is specifically related to strengthening the support and management of CYP presenting in Emergency Departments and Acute pathways and needs to align to the following outcomes: 1. Reduce Avoidable Mental Health attendances to emergency departments (EDs); 2. Support rapid and safe discharge from A&E (i.e. avoid 4hr / 12hr breaches); 3. Reduce avoidable emergency admissions to general acute hospitals or mental health hospitals; 4. Facilitate earlier discharge from general or T4 mental health hospitals

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Services provided are to meet the following outcomes: 1. Reduce Avoidable Mental Health attendances to emergency departments (EDs); 2. Support rapid and safe discharge from A&E (i.e. avoid 4hr / 12hr breaches); 3. Reduce avoidable emergency admissions to general acute hospitals or mental health hospitals; 4. Facilitate earlier discharge from general or T4 mental health hospitals Due to the urgent pressures within Emergency Departments these contracts have been awarded under the urgent award route of PSR. The lifetime value of the contracts is PS2,231,922 and the contracts run from 1st October 2026 until 31st March 2027.

### Procurement Information

This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under 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. The urgent award route was used due to the increased demand on Emergency department for patients presenting with mental health illnesses during the winter period. The contract will run from 1st October 2026 to 31st March 2027. This contract was approved by Toucan Senior Leadership Team and through a Partnership Working Group held on 8th September 2026. There were no conflicts of interests declared during the approval process.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/086733-2026 |
| 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 | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 14 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 | £2,232,822 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust |
| Locality | BIRMINGHAM |
| Postcode area | Birmingham |
| Postcode | B4 6NH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG31 Birmingham |
| Local authority | Birmingham |
| Electoral ward | Ladywood |
| Westminster constituency | Birmingham Ladywood |
| Delivery location | TLG West Midlands (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85111500 - Psychiatric hospital services

## Release History

- 14 Sep 2026 at 10:24 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/086733-2026

## Notice URLs

- https://toucanwestmids.nhs.uk/

## Provenance

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