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Kent County Council

SC240063 -Parent Infant Mental Health Service (PIMHS)

HealthcareCPV 85323000
Value£2.2m
Awarded2 Feb 2026
Published16 Feb 2026
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£2.2mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Text to be corrected in the original notice: Place of text to be modified: 'This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice.

Instead of: 'This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice.

This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.

This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process.' The recommendation is to award the contract for Parent Infant Mental Health Service to the Real Group.

As they are the provider that passed the checks conducted under the Basic Selection Criteria and provided the lowest Value per Other Key Criteria point score.

The evaluators were: •Public Health Specialist - Abenaa Gyamfuah-Assibey •Public Health Consultant - Wendy Jeffreys •Commissioner - Tracy Weight •Alison Newman - Senior Commercial and Procurement Officer (Moderator) Read: 'This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice.

This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.

This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process.' The recommendation is to award the contract for Parent Infant Mental Health Service to the Real Group.

As they are the provider that passed the checks conducted under the Basic Selection Criteria and provided the lowest Value per Other Key Criteria point score.

The evaluators were; •Public Health Specialist - Abenaa Gyamfuah-Assibey •Public Health Consultant - Wendy Jeffreys •Commissioner - Tracy Weight •Alison Newman - Senior Commercial and Procurement Officer (Moderator) Other additional information: CPV Code 85323000-9.

Registered Address of Provider: The Real Group 4 Victoria Parade, New Capital Quay, Greenwich, SE10 9F.

Approximate Lifetime Value of Contract; The total contract value for the full contract should all extensions be enacted is £2,160,529.46.

Start and End Date; 5/9/2026 - 31/08/2028.

Date of Award 02/03/2026.

Potential for a contract extension of 2 x 1 year(s) (24 months), depending on both the success in achieving the required.

No conflicts of interest declared This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice.

The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.

The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice.

Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 11.59pm 25 February 2026.

This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competit

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Approximate Lifetime Value of Contract; The total

Approximate Lifetime Value of Contract; The total contract value for the full contract should all extensions be enacted is £2,160,529.46.

02

Representations by providers must be made

Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 11.59pm 25 February 2026.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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