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title: "Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental Health and Wellbeing"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0776de"
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buyer: "Essex County Council"
published: "2026-09-21"
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# Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental Health and Wellbeing

Buyer: Essex County Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0776de

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## Summary

Essex County Council commissioned a specialist service to design and guide a structured, co-produced process for early intervention and prevention in emotional wellbeing and mental health across the life course. The work supports the prevention and early intervention pillar of the Essex, Southend and Thurrock Mental Health Strategy and is intended to identify a small number of priority actions for collaboration. It brings together the council’s Public Health, Adult Social Care and Children and Families services with the Essex Integrated Care Board. The requirement is business analysis consultancy focused on mental health and wellbeing strategy, partnership working and service improvement. Delivery is for Essex, within the wider Essex, Southend and Thurrock area. The buying organisation is Essex County Council.

The procurement has been awarded following a completed below-threshold limited competition. One lot was awarded to the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a voluntary, community and social enterprise and small or medium-sized enterprise. The contract was signed on 18 September 2026 and runs from 21 September to 21 December 2026. Its value is £47,500 excluding VAT, or £57,000 including VAT. The selected supplier is providing the full requirement as an active contract. The process used a limited procedure rather than an open competition, reflecting its below-threshold status. The award concerns business analysis consultancy services for the single mental health and wellbeing early-intervention requirement; the published outcome identifies one supplier and one contract.

This procurement demonstrates demand from Essex County Council for independent consultancy that can turn complex mental health strategy into a small number of practical, jointly owned priorities. A credible future competitor would need experience of early intervention and prevention in emotional wellbeing or mental health, alongside the ability to work across Public Health, Adult Social Care, children’s services and an Integrated Care Board. Strong capability in business analysis, facilitation and co-production would be important, including engaging partners across the life course and translating evidence and stakeholder input into agreed actions. The award to a specialist social-care institute indicates that subject expertise, public-sector partnership skills and a social-value or mission-led approach may be relevant when this type of requirement next reaches the market.

## Notice

Essex County Council (ECC), in partnership with Public Health (PH), Adult Social Care (ASC), Children & Families (C&F), and the Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB), is seeking to commission an organisation to design and guide a structured, co-produced process to identify a small number of priority actions for collaboration between partners on early intervention and prevention in emotional wellbeing and mental health across the life course. This requirement relates to the early intervention and prevention pillar of the Essex, Southend and Thurrock (SET) Mental Health Strategy (2023). To date, system partners have focused primarily on acute, crisis and recovery work. ECC now intends to progress the prevention and early intervention commitments.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/089350-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - limited competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 21 Sep 2026 - 21 Dec 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £47,500 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Essex County Council |
| Locality | CHELMSFORD |
| Postcode area | Chelmsford |
| Postcode | CM1 1QH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex |
| ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex |
| Local authority | Chelmsford |
| Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central |
| Westminster constituency | Chelmsford |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Social Care Institute for Excellence |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services

## Release History

- 21 Sep 2026 at 17:08 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/089350-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/089350-2026
  21st September 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.scie.org.uk/

## Provenance

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