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DORSET COUNCIL

Further competition - Provision of Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Services

HealthcareCPV 85000000 85100000 85140000 85300000 85310000 85312000
Value£213k
Awarded13 May 2025
Published1 Jul 2025
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£213ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

THIS IS A CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE ONLY FOLLOWING A FURTHER COMPETITION FROM ESPO FRAMEWORK 985B_23 Occupational Health Services from Lot 2 - Employee Assistance Programmes Dorset Council requires an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support the development and maintenance of healthy and productive workforces, enabling employees, councillors and external customers of Dorset Council to remain in their working roles wherever possible.

A contract will be awarded for a period of up to six years (initial period of 3 years plus an optional extension period of up to a further 3 years).

There is scope to extend the contract by a period of up to 2 years beyond year 6 (subject to agreement by both parties).

Key requirements include: • Advice, guidance and signposting through a 24/7 helpline • Assessment and six (minimum) sessions of counselling • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) • Trauma support • Accessible resources and webinars • Promotional resources

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Dorset Council requires an Employee Assistance Programme

Dorset Council requires an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support the development and maintenance of healthy and productive workforces, enabling employees, councillors and external customers of Dorset Council to remain in their working roles wherever possible.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
THIS IS A CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE ONLY FOLLOWING A FURTHER COMPETITION FROM ESPO FRAMEWORK 985B_23 Occupational Health Services from Lot 2 - Employee Assistance Programmes

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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