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title: "Early Intervention Pathway Mental Health - Clinically Led Digital Support Offer to Children, Young People and Young Adults"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06fb2e"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board"
published: "2026-10-01"
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# Early Intervention Pathway Mental Health - Clinically Led Digital Support Offer to Children, Young People and Young Adults

Buyer: NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06fb2e

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## Summary

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board procured a children’s and young people’s mental health early-intervention pathway, delivered as a clinically led digital support service. It provides self-guided resources, moderated community content, journalling, live one-to-one practitioner support, safety planning and structured support pathways for children, young people and young adults. The service is for users across Derby and Derbyshire, including Derby, Amber Valley and Erewash, and South Derbyshire. This is a health service intended to provide accessible digital support alongside practitioner-led help, rather than a general technology platform purchase.

The contract was awarded to Soluna by Kooth (Kooth Digital Health Limited) through direct award process C under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The contract was signed on 14 September 2026. Its approximate lifetime value is £389,191.50 excluding VAT; the contract value is recorded as £389,192. The service period runs from 1 January 2027 to 31 March 2028. There was one lot, and one bid was recorded. The selection criteria were weighted equally: the assessment considered whether the existing provider was delivering the original contract to a sufficient standard and was likely to do so under the proposed contract; value was also listed as a criterion, with a stated weighting of zero. The service arrangement was not changing considerably.

This award shows demand from the ICB for a clinically led digital mental health pathway that combines self-guided tools and moderated online community content with direct practitioner support, safety planning and structured pathways. Suppliers seeking to compete for a comparable requirement would need to demonstrate that they can deliver this integrated offer to children, young people and young adults across Derby and Derbyshire, with dependable safeguarding and access to live one-to-one support. The decision favoured continuity: the existing provider was judged to be performing sufficiently and likely to continue doing so, while the stated assessment gave equal importance to the key criteria and listed value at zero weighting. A credible future competitor would therefore need evidence of service quality, safe delivery and the capacity to sustain the full pathway, not just a digital resource library.

## Notice

Provides CYP with self-guided resources, moderated community content, journaling, live one-to-one practitioner support, safety planning and structured support pathways.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Description of the services to be provided: Provides CYP with self-guided resources, moderated community content, journaling, live one-to-one practitioner support, safety planning and structured support pathways. The ICB is intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C The approximate lifetime value of the contract is PS389,191.50 excluding VAT. The dates between which the service will be provided are 1 January 2027 to 31 March 2028

Options: In line with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023

### 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 Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093001-2026 |
| Notice type | Tender 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 | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Oct 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 | £389,192 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board |
| Locality | DERBY |
| Postcode area | Derby |
| Postcode | DE1 2FS |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLF East Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLF1 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire |
| ITL 3 | TLF11 Derby |
| Local authority | Derby |
| Electoral ward | Darley |
| Westminster constituency | Derby South |
| Delivery location | TLF11 Derby, TLF12 East Derbyshire, TLF13 South and West Derbyshire |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Soluna by Kooth (Kooth Digital Health Limited) |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 1 Oct 2026 at 16:11 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093001-2026
- 16 Sep 2026 at 13:57 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/087782-2026

## Notice URLs

- https://joinedupcarederbyshire.co.uk/

## Provenance

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