Awarded contract

Provision of pregnancy and baby loss counselling service

Details

Buyer: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Supplier(s): Pregnancy Expectations Trauma and Loss Society (PETALS)
Value: £51,000
Topic: Health services
Published: 18 March 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Provision of pregnancy and baby loss counselling service. The service is a counselling service to support parents after the loss of an unborn baby or very young baby, either through illness or early termination. The service provides counselling from trained staff and accepts referrals from individuals and couples. It provides flexible access to accommodate language, hearing or cultural needs. It offers support throughout pregnancy after loss and to healthcare staff involved in traumatic cases. Lot 1: Provision of pregnancy and baby loss counselling service. The service is a counselling service to support parents after the loss of an unborn baby or very young baby, either through illness or early termination. The service provides counselling from trained staff and accepts referrals from individuals and couples. It provides flexible access to accommodate language, hearing or cultural needs. It offers support throughout pregnancy after loss and to healthcare staff involved in traumatic cases. This notice is an intention to award a contract under the most suitable provider process. The approximate lifetime value of the contract is £51,000. This is a call off order. This is a new service with a new provider. The dates between which the services are intended to be provided are between April 2026 and April 2027.

Timeline

Completed: Award published18 March 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date18 March 2026

About the buyer

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital and community services across Somerset, and buys as an NHS trust with its own team of procurement and contract management specialists. Tenders are advertised on the Atamis e-tendering portal, with notices also published on the Find a Tender Service. Clinical services contracts follow the Provider Selection Regime at any contract value. Non-clinical procurement runs through framework agreements, including NHS Supply Chain, NHS Shared Business Services and the Crown Commercial Service. Suppliers below the tender threshold can register on the Trust's database of potential suppliers.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in repair and maintenance, IT services and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.

Relevant CPV codes

85100000 · Health services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@somerset-nhs-foundation-trust.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@somerset-nhs-foundation-trust.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@somerset-nhs-foundation-trust.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@somerset-nhs-foundation-trust.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@somerset-nhs-foundation-trust.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@somerset-nhs-foundation-trust.gov