Awarded· 13 Oct 2024
Universal Health Services
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board · Ipswich, East of England
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded Universal Health Services. It is a contract for learning disability and autism in Ipswich.
Source: Find a Tender, published 3 Apr 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2024
Contract awarded
Suffolk County Council
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 16:09
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 08:13
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About this tender
In brief
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded Universal Health Services. It is a contract for learning disability and autism in Ipswich. The contract went to Suffolk County Council. It was awarded on 13 October 2024. The contract value is £1,555,500.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 3 April 2025. The notice number is 012669-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04eea7.
Summary of the contracting process
The NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board is overseeing the procurement process for the Universal Health Services contract, which falls under the Health Services industry category. Covering services within Suffolk (UKH14 region), this contract includes therapies for children with learning disabilities, coordination of health assessments for children in care, enuresis support, safeguarding through named nurses, and provision of continence products, as well as administrative elements.
The contract has been awarded under the Provider Selection Regime as of 18th March 2025, with service delivery scheduled between 1st April 2025 and 31st March 2026. The contract is valued at £1,555,500 excluding VAT.
The direct award process ensures that the selected provider has met key criteria related to service quality, value for money, integration and collaboration within the healthcare system, improving access and reducing health inequalities, and promoting social value.
The notice in full
The Universal Health Services contract comprises of Learning Disability/Behavioural therapies for 0-18 yrs; coordination assessments for Children in Care (CiC) for 0-25 yrs; Enuresis support for 5-19 yrs; Named Nurses; Continence Products and a Corporate & Admin element.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
- Learning Disability/Behavioural therapies: 0-18 yrs. Individualised support programs to enable Children and Young People (CYP) to remain within community and attend education. Intensive behavioural support sessions can be with a named nurse and an additional set of sessions with a support worker.
- Children in Care (CiC): 0-25 yrs. Co-ordination of Initial Health Assessments and Review Health Assessments provided through an integrated administration hub within recommended timeframes. Ensure statutory health needs of CIC are met. Specialist Looked After Children nurses.
- Enuresis (involuntary urination): 5-19 yrs. Assessment, support, and the offer of therapeutic interventions to CYP and their families. Excludes daytime wetting and complicated nocturnal enuresis.
- Named nurses: For safeguarding of children across services (covers supervision, compliance, policies/procedures). Support and monitor individual professionals working with vulnerable children, identifying children and families who would benefit from early help and assist and advise on assessment and analysis of risk to children and families.
- Continence products and administrative costs are also included as part of this.
- Contract is for 1 year with no option to extend.
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice.
The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider. The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time.
Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Learning Disability and Autism Support
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Suffolk County Council
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Tender, Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Buyer's portal
- In-Tend
Values
- Contracts value
- £1,555,500
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
- 012669-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04eea7
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Ipswich
- Town
- Ipswich
- Postcode
- IP1 2BX
- Electoral ward
- Gipping
- Constituency
- Ipswich
- Delivery area
- Suffolk CC
- Region
- East of England
- Sub-region
- Ipswich
- Area
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Caryn Akers
- Address
- Ipswich, IP1 2BX · East of England · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Suffolk County Council
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Universal Health Services
Who won the Universal Health Services contract?
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Suffolk County Council on 13 October 2024.
How much is the Universal Health Services contract worth?
The contract value is £1,555,500.
Who is the buyer for Universal Health Services?
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Ipswich, East of England. The named contact is Caryn Akers.
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