How to win: NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression - RFI

About this contract

NHS England intends to procure the education and training programmes for the NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression services in 2026. This will be a competitive tender conducted in line with the Procurement Act 2023. This will provide the education and training infrastructure required to develop and grow NHS Talking Therapies workforce to support NHS England’s, and consequently DHSC’s current and future policy ambitions and mandates. This is a pre-market engagement exercise containing questions for the NHS Talking Therapies education provider market. The questions are intended to help inform the procurement and ensure it is feasible and meets the needs of NHS England, learners, and service providers. Your responses will be treated as confidential and will not influence any subsequent bid you may choose to submit. The tender is anticipated to be published in late 2026. Further communications and details on what, how, and when the procurement will be conducted will be shared with potential bidders nearer the time through additional market engagement, prior to the publication of the Invitation to Tender (ITT). To respond to this Request for Information - please register on o

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — NHS England scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £125,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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