Breastfeeding Support Services
A Contract Award Notice
by CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £75K
- Sector
- HEALTH
- Published
- 27 Jan 2026
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Related Terms
Location
Chester
2 buyers
1 supplier
- Koala North West Wirral
Description
Koala North West are a local third sector charity organisation. Our partnership has directly improved the maintained Breastfeeding for families in Cheshire West and Chester due to Koala's management and delivery of a group of skilled volunteers who support infant feeding and early relationships. The evidence base (Best Start in Life 2022) shows us that early relationships build lifelong benefits both physically and emotionally. Koala's volunteer model in unique, and well respected in the area. Patient feedback in September 2025 highlighted the positive impact that Koala's groups, phone calls, and social media have delivered to our families when they need it under delegation with effective governance. The commissioner of Starting Well 0-19 services endorses the service level agreement between CWP and Koala recognising both the clinical benefits but also the social value - the opportunity for local people to volunteer, retrain, and support their communities. The cost of the agreement with Koala is the average cost of one specialist nurse a year, one nurse could not cover the same level of advice and guidance, group delivery and overall breastfeeding support on such scale. The specialist nurse time of those in post is more available for other targeted and specialist delivery that is not appropriate for skill mixed delivery due to the support of this partnership. As incumbent providers, Koala possess the necessary human and technical resources and experience to perform the contract to an appropriate quality standard.
Award Detail
| 1 | Koala North West (Wirral)
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Award Criteria
| the existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard | 80.0 |
| the existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard | 20.0 |
CPV Codes
- 85100000 - Health services
Indicators
- Award on basis of price and quality.
Legal Justification
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 direct award process C. 1st April 2026 - 30th June 2027 at £75,000
Reference
- FTS 006923-2026