Awarded· 2 Dec 2025
Low Vision Aid Service
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board · Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board has awarded Low Vision Aid Service. It is a contract for other health and social care in Stoke-on-Trent.
Source: Find a Tender, published 12 Dec 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Prince and Bates Optician
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 16:54
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About this tender
In brief
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board has awarded Low Vision Aid Service. It is a contract for other health and social care in Stoke-on-Trent. The contract went to Prince and Bates Optician. It was awarded on 2 December 2025. The contract value is £6,600.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 12 December 2025. The notice number is 082674-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-05f537.
Summary of the contracting process
The procurement process involves NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB), intending to award a contract under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) for the "Low Vision Aid Service." This service aims to support individuals with low vision to maintain independence and maximise their remaining eyesight. Classified under Optician services (CPV 85160000), this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
It is located in Stoke-on-Trent, UKG24, and the award notice was published on 12th December 2025. The standstill period begins immediately, with representations from providers required by 24th December 2025, indicating that the procurement stage is at the intention to award phase. The contract, valued at approximately £6,600 for a period from January 2026 to March 2027, requires delivering services with consistency and quality as per historical performance.
The notice in full
Low vision services: The aim of the service is to enable people with loss of vision to regain or maintain as much independence and autonomy as possible. The overall objective is to enable people with sight loss to make maximum and best use of their remaining eyesight and visual function.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
The service offers additional support to patients who have accessed Ophthalmology and require some additional support with low vision aids, to patients with non-complex needs that can be assessed and supported with the necessary aids in a community setting.
The ICB is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C, where the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and the contract is not changing considerably. Anticipated spend is activity based. The contract for 2024/25 was capped at a contract value of PS6,600 for 15 months.
Actual expenditure for full year 2024/25 (04/24 - 03/25) was PS2,038. Based on this, this award is for the period 01/01/26 - 31/03/27 (15 months) bringing the anticipated lifetime, maximum value of the contract to c.PS6,600
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Prince and Bates Optician
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- SME
Values
- Contracts value
- £6,600
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 082674-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05f537
- CPV code
- 85160000 - Optician services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Postcode
- ST1 4FA
- Electoral ward
- Etruria & Hanley
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central
- Delivery area
- Staffordshire CC
- Region
- West Midlands
- Sub-region
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Area
- Shropshire and Staffordshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Emma Hardman
- Address
- Stoke-on-trent, ST1 4FA · West Midlands · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Prince and Bates Optician
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Low Vision Aid Service
Who won the Low Vision Aid Service contract?
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Prince and Bates Optician on 2 December 2025.
How much is the Low Vision Aid Service contract worth?
The contract value is £6,600.
Who is the buyer for Low Vision Aid Service?
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board, based in Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands. The named contact is Emma Hardman.
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