Camhs tier 4 contracts
UK public sector · 96 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 96
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £30k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £417m
- 66 of 96 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 23
- Suppliers
- 44
4 camhs tier 4 contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most camhs tier 4 contracts took 57% of them (55 of 96).
- The median contract, £30k, is 71% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
- North West had the most contracts: 18, or 19% of the total.
Who buys camhs tier 4
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust31 contracts£898k
- 2Aneurin Bevan University Health Board17 contracts—
- 3Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts£4.0m
- 4Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts£7.0m
- 5Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts£3.2m
- 6Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£63.9m
- 7Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£18.4m
- 8NHS South West London Integrated Care Board3 contracts£3.9m
- 9Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£3.0m
- 10Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts—
Top camhs tier 4 contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Cygnet Health Care28 contracts£6.5m
- 2Priory12 contracts£22.4m
- 3Elysium Healthcare12 contracts£1.0m
- 4Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal4 contracts£55k
- 5Partnerships in Care3 contracts£7.8m
- 6Priory Hospital Bristol3 contracts£86k
- 7Priory Hospital Arnold3 contracts£85k
- 8Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£7.0m
- 9Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£261k
- 10Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts£257k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board to Cygnet Health Care · Awarded 28 September 2026
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board to Cygnet Health Care · Awarded 28 September 2026
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust to Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 11 September 2026
Market Engagement - West Midlands Tier 4 CAMHS Lead Provider (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£278m
NHS England to North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust · Awarded 11 September 2026
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 20 August 2026
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust to Cygnet Hospital · Awarded 3 August 2026
NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies to Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 27 July 2026
AJ- Aberbeeg Hospital (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to Elysium Healthcare · Awarded 22 July 2026
Mental Health PICU provision (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust to Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal · Awarded 20 July 2026
SR- Cygnet (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to supplier not published · Awarded 17 July 2026
Largest
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust to Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust · Awarded 20 January 2026
Ministry of Defence to Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 23 January 2026
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to Priory · Awarded 1 April 2026
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 31 March 2026
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to Priory · Awarded 16 January 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 78 · Wales 18
What is included
Psychiatric hospital beds bought as placements, block contracts or frameworks: acute and psychiatric intensive care, low and medium secure, CAMHS tier 4, young adult, learning disability hospital and specialist dementia inpatient care, including care of patients detained under the Mental Health Act.
- Acute and PICU beds
- Low and medium secure placements including women's secure services
- CAMHS tier 4 inpatient beds
- Out-of-area specialist hospital placements
- Independent sector inpatient frameworks for mental health, learning disability and CAMHS
- Specialist dementia hospital-based complex clinical care
- Assessment and treatment of detained patients
What is not included
- Community eating disorder treatment (hlt.mh.eating-disorder-services)
- Learning disability community and specialist clinical models (hlt.mh.learning-disability-autism-specialist-health)
- Secure patient conveyance (sec.custody.secure-patient-transport)
- Care home placements including dementia nursing homes (soc.res.nursing-home-placements)
- Mental health supported accommodation (soc.supp.mental-health-supported-accommodation)
- Healthcare in prisons (hlt.justice.prison-detention-healthcare)