Awarded· 24 Jul 2025
Mental Health Discharge Support
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Cheshire West and Chester, North West
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Mental Health Discharge Support. It is a contract for mental health support in Cheshire West and Chester.
Source: Find a Tender, published 6 Aug 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Award notice published
UK5 - Transparency Notice · 09:51
View notice2025
Contract starts
2025
Award notice published
UK6 - Contract Award Notice · 07:54
View notice2026
Contract ends
0½ years after it starts
About this tender
In brief
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Mental Health Discharge Support. It is a contract for mental health support in Cheshire West and Chester. The contract went to Waythrough. It was awarded on 24 July 2025. The awarded value is £173,783. The contract runs from 5 August 2025 to 31 March 2026. It lasts 0½ years.
It is run as a below threshold - without competition. Find a Tender published it on 6 August 2025. The notice number is 046355-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-056533.
Summary of the contracting process
The Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, a public authority within the central government, has completed the procurement process for the contract titled "Mental Health Discharge Support." This process was conducted using a direct procurement method, which falls below the competition threshold. The contract, with a value of £173,783, spans from 6th August 2025 to 31st March 2026.
Located in Chester, UK, this initiative is dedicated to enhancing inpatient Community Mental Health/Home Treatment Teams' capacity to ensure smooth transitions from inpatient stays to community-based settings. The procurement process encompassed awarding the contract to Waythrough, highlighting the crucial role of services within the health industry category during the award stage.
Waythrough, established in October 2024, has already exhibited remarkable success in offering substantial savings to the NHS through its Chester & Wirral Pathway Service. Their proven expertise in tackling mental health, housing, and related support services aligns intricately with the contract requirements, demonstrating a strong potential for cost-efficient delivery and widespread impact in community health with their non-clinical, person-centred support.
The notice in full
The Team will contribute to:
- Offer increased capacity to support inpatient Community Mental Health/Home Treatment Teams to improve ways to enable throughput of mental health inpatient stays back to community accommodation
- Help to prepare people to leave inpatient facilities
- Offer increased support for people leaving inpatient stays to receive holistic mental health support needed within their step-down community-based accommodation The Team will be dedicated resource, receiving daily workloads from within Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) set up by Cheshire and Wirral Partnership services to project manage the delivery of this emergency support.
In addition to working with CWP's inpatient teams, the Team will work closely with other potential accommodation stakeholders to contribute to freeing-up accommodation at every level within the system. The Team will be home based staff supporting housing accommodation services. It will be holistic and delivered to a person-centred recovery focused approach.
Non-clinical support that complements and enhances the support delivered by CWP's health clinical teams including CMHT/HTT staff. Based on individual needs, the Teams staff will deliver interventions shaped around a person's preferences and goals. All interventions have a strong focus on empowering the individual to take responsibility to manage their emotions.
13th June 2025 to 31st March 2026 PS173,783
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Mental Health Support
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- 5 Aug 2025 to 31 Mar 2026 (0½ years)
- Awarded to
- Waythrough
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Direct
- Procedure
- Below threshold - without competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
- Awards value
- £173,783
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Complete
- Awards
- Active
Not stated in the notice: contracts.
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 046355-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-056533
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Town
- Chester
- Postcode
- CH2 1BQ
- Electoral ward
- Upton
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston
- Region
- North West
- Sub-region
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Area
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Category
- Services
- Address
- Chester, CH2 1BQ · North West · England
Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Waythrough
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- £173,783
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
- Contract award notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046355-2025
- Transparency notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/042639-2025
- Legislation.gov.uklegislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- OCDS record ocds-h6vhtk-056533 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h…
Questions about Mental Health Discharge Support
Who won the Mental Health Discharge Support contract?
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust awarded the contract to Waythrough on 24 July 2025. It is due to end on 31 March 2026, which is when a re-tender would normally follow.
How much is the Mental Health Discharge Support contract worth?
The awarded value is £173,783. The contract runs from 5 August 2025 to 31 March 2026 (0½ years).
Who is the buyer for Mental Health Discharge Support?
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, based in Cheshire West and Chester, North West.
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