Awarded contract

Arts Boost 5 - An Arts in Health Programme for Young People

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): Span Arts
Value: £9,700
Duration: 7 months
Topic: Miscellaneous health services
Published: 7 August 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) are seeking to commission up to three (3) Arts & Health providers for the development and delivery of Arts Boost 5, a project to improve the mental health of Young People (YP) with mild to moderate mental health needs who are known to Hywel Dda UHB Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The tender will be divided into geographical lots as detailed below. Providers can tender for a minimum of (1) lot to a maximum of all three (3) lots. Lot one (1) Cardigan Lot two (2) Narberth Lot three (3) Llanelli Lot 2: Lot 2 - Narberth This is a Provider Selection Regime Wales (PSR Wales) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015/Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded using the Competitive Process Competitive Process confirmation of contract award notice, for the avoidance of doubt, this notice does not represent a modification of contract

Timeline

Completed: Award date3 June 2026
Completed: Award published7 August 2026
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date31 December 2026in 3 months

About the buyer

NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.

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 NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

85140000 · Miscellaneous health services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov