---
title: "Educational Psychology Advices for Education, Health, and Care Needs Assessment"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a"
canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a"
markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a.md"
json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a.json"
source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Wirral Council"
published: "2026-09-15"
---

# Educational Psychology Advices for Education, Health, and Care Needs Assessment

Buyer: Wirral Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a

[View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a)  
[Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a.json)

## Summary

Wirral Council commissioned additional educational psychologist capacity for its core educational psychology team. The service supports statutory assessments and the preparation of advice for children going through the Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment process. This is a professional psychology service rather than a general staffing requirement: the work involves educational psychology input into assessments and advice connected with special educational needs and provision. The contracting authority is Wirral Council, and the service is intended to support children and the Council’s education, health and care assessment functions in Wirral. The procurement is classified as psychiatrist or psychologist services. The requirement was structured as a single service package, covering additional capacity to supplement the Council’s existing educational psychology team.

The procurement is complete and has been awarded. Wirral Council used a limited award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition, justified as being below the light-touch threshold and needed to maintain continuity of the statutory service while the procurement was awarded and mobilised. Reed Talent Solutions was selected as the supplier, with one bid recorded and no bids from SMEs. The contract was signed on 1 September 2026 for £356,250. The award is recorded as active and the contract as active. The published lot is marked cancelled, although the associated award and contract are active. Evaluation information records quality and price criteria, with the lot’s entries each stating 100%; the available data does not establish a usable relative weighting between them.

This award shows demand from Wirral Council for external educational psychology capacity to support statutory EHC needs assessments, particularly where the core team needs additional resource to deliver assessments and advice. A credible future competitor would need suitably qualified educational psychologists who can undertake assessment work and produce professional advice within the statutory EHCNA context. Relevant capability includes understanding special educational needs, education, health and care planning, statutory timescales and the evidence required to support decisions about children’s provision. The requirement also indicates that a supplier must be able to provide dependable additional capacity and work alongside an established Council team, maintaining continuity of service rather than operating as a standalone clinical service. Organisations with scalable access to educational psychology professionals and experience of public-sector statutory assessment work would be best placed to compete when this requirement next returns to market.

## Notice

To provide additional educational psychologist capacity to assist the core EP team in providing statutory assessment and advices for children undergoing the Education, Health, and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) process.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

To provide additional educational psychologist capacity to assist the core EP team in providing statutory assessment and advices for children undergoing the Education, Health, and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) process.

### Procurement Information

Below light touch threshold Continuity of statutory service with incumbent while procurement process is awarded and mobilised to ensure no gap in service.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/087526-2026 |
| 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 | 15 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 | £356,250 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Wirral Council |
| Locality | WALLASEY |
| Postcode area | Chester |
| Postcode | CH44 8ED |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLD7 Merseyside |
| ITL 3 | TLD74 Wirral |
| Local authority | Wirral |
| Electoral ward | Seacombe |
| Westminster constituency | Wallasey |
| Delivery location | TLD74 Wirral |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Reed Talent Solutions Limited |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85121270 - Psychiatrist or psychologist services

## Release History

- 15 Sep 2026 at 21:13 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/087526-2026

## Notice URLs

- https://www.the-chest.org.uk/

## Provenance

This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. The canonical page is https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a. The underlying structured data is available as OCDS JSON at https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06fa9a.json.