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Awarded· 30 Mar 2025

NHSWYICB - Enhanced Optical Services

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board · Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has awarded NHSWYICB - Enhanced Optical Services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Wakefield.

Source: Find a Tender, published 9 Jan 2026. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.

Key dates

  1. 2025

    Contract awarded

  2. 2026

    Award notice published

    Award Notice · 11:24

    View notice
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About this tender

In brief

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has awarded NHSWYICB - Enhanced Optical Services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Wakefield. It was awarded on 30 March 2025.

It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 9 January 2026. The notice number is 001757-2026. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-06028f.

Summary of the contracting process

The NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has announced the award of contracts under the Provider Selection Regime for enhanced optical services. This falls under the health industry's optician services category, targeting locations including Wakefield, Bradford, and Leeds. The procurement process was completed through a direct award procedure without prior publication for competition, adhering to the NHS Provider Selection Regime.

The awarded contracts, which are active from 1st April 2025 until 30th September 2027 with a potential extension to September 2028, aim to improve urgent eyecare, glaucoma referrals, and cataract pathways in the community, enhancing the service delivery by leveraging local optometric skills.

Additionally, the focus on patient choice and local service delivery opens avenues for existing and new providers to establish or expand partnerships with health care provider networks across the Yorkshire region.

The notice in full

1.Community Urgent Eyecare Service - to use the skills of primary care Optometrists to assess, manage and prioritise service users presenting with an urgent or minor eye condition. 2.Glaucoma Referral Refinement - to reduce false positive referrals to the hospital eye service reducing service user anxiety AND releasing capacity from the hospital glaucoma service enabling follow-up care including treatment to be provided AND monitored closer to home.

3.Complete Cataract Enhanced Pathway - an end-to-end pathway across primary and secondary care utilising the skills of primary care optometrists to confirm the presence of cataract, counsel the service user with the use of shared decision making and to refer on to the service users of surgical provider

Lots (1)

  1. 01

    Lot 1Cancelled

    The Contract Authority; NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has awarded contracts under Direct Award Process B. The authority is publishing this notice in Find a Tender in accordance with the NHS Provider Selection Regime. All providers meeting the requirements for service delivery have been offered contracts.

    Contract period: 01/04/2025 - 30/09/2027 plus an option to extend to 30/09/2028 The contracts are of a zero-value nature, with there being no fixed or guaranteed income to a provider under contract. The lifetime value has therefore been defined to be under PS1 million for the purpose of the ICB's financial scheme of delegation.

    For the purpose of the notice, the contract has been awarded to the Health and Care Partnerships. The formal award has been made to 90+ incumbent providers that deliver the service across Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield.

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Key facts

Every field the notice carries. Anything it leaves blank is listed under its table.

Contract

Service
Other health and social care
Procurement type
Standard
Category
Services
Contract period
Not specified - Not specified
Lots
1
Number of suppliers
3

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

Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.

Status

Tender
Complete
Lots
Cancelled
Awards
Active
Contracts
Active

References

Find a Tender notice
001757-2026
Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-06028f
CPV code
85160000 - Optician services
CPV division
85 - Health and social work services
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Location

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is based in Wakefield. The area the service covers can be wider, so check the notice and the lots.
Local authority
Wakefield
Town
Wakefield
Postcode
WF1 1LT
Electoral ward
Wakefield North
Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell
Delivery area
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Sub-region
Wakefield
Area
West Yorkshire
Country
England
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Buyer

Contracting authority

Organisation
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Category
Services
Address
Wakefield, WF1 1LT · Yorkshire and The Humber · England

Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.

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Documents and links

Official sources for this notice. The tender pack itself sits on the buyer's portal.
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Questions about NHSWYICB - Enhanced Optical Services

Who won the NHSWYICB - Enhanced Optical Services contract?

The award notice does not name the supplier. The full record is in the official notice linked on this page.

Who is the buyer for NHSWYICB - Enhanced Optical Services?

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, based in Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber.

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