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12-21 Counselling Service

City of York Council Published 12 Feb 2026 Find a Tender

key details

Statuscomplete
Category (CPV) 85312320
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Procedurelimited
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-064e9c

Award

SupplierValueDateStatus
York Mind · · active

description

The Council intends to apply a short term extension to its existing contract for the provision of counselling services for young people aged 12-21 living in York. This extension is required to maintain continuity of provision while the Council undertakes a full review of children and young people's counselling services and aligns future commissioning with the Humber and North Yorkshire Mental Health Strategic Transformation Plan 2025-2030.

The current service was originally awarded in 2019 to York Mind following a competitive procurement for a 16-25 counselling service. A subsequent service level agreement piloted counselling for 12-15 year olds, including 1 1 art therapy. The contracting authority intends to award a contract for 12-21 Counselling Service.

The Contracting Authority is not awarding a new contract. This VEAT notice is in respect of a proposed short-term extension to the term of its contract for the provision of 12-21 counselling service. See sections 2.2.3 for further details.

The contract was varied to incorporate the 12-15 service and extend the 16-25 service for a further year, creating a unified 12-21 counselling service, supported by a £10k contribution from the ICB.

The proposed extension will allow sufficient time for:

a full review of CYP counselling provision
alignment with statutory duties and system wide responsibilities
development of an integrated commissioning model with the ICB
a robust procurement process and evaluation for a longer term solution

The contract extension period: is 12 months beyond the extension period originally set out in the contract.

The indicative procurement timetable for the new service is as follows:

Write draft specificationOct-Nov 2026
Write Contract, Tender documents with Legal / Procurement support:Oct-Nov 2026

Preliminary Market Engagement phase starts: Early Nov 2026

Draft Invitation to Tender documentation, draft applicable Notices:Mid Nov - Dec 2026
Invitation to Tender Period (30 days):4th Jan 2027
Invitation to Tender return deadline date:4th Feb 2027
Tender evaluation:Early Feb 2027

Standstill (8 working days from date of Contract Award Notice publication): Mid Feb 2027

Approval to award: Late Feb 2027

Contract Mobilisation / Implementation Process (6 weeks):March 2027
New Contract starts:1st April 2027

notice history

1 notice published against this procurement.

PublishedTypeRegimeNotice
12 Feb 2026 Voluntary ex-ante transparency (F15) Earlier regulations 012715-2026

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