Student Counselling Services
- Buyer
- Ulster University
- Value
- £1,200,000
- Closes
- 27 October 2026
- Where
- Coleraine, Northern Ireland
- Type
- Open tender
In plain English
Ulster University wants to hire an external counselling provider to offer therapeutic mental health support to their 30,000 students across multiple campuses. The service will work alongside the university's existing wellbeing team and needs to integrate seamlessly so students can be referred smoothly when counselling is the right support.
What the buyer wants
• Provide professional therapeutic counselling services to students referred by the university's Student Wellbeing team • Work within a seamless referral system so that Student Wellbeing staff can triage and refer students directly to your counselling service • Deliver services across multiple Ulster University campuses to support a diverse student population of approximately 30,000 (from Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Great Britain, EU, and international students)
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This contract requires a specialized therapeutic counselling provider with formal accreditation and qualified practitioner status. Solo self-employed counsellors or unaccredited providers will almost certainly be excluded, and you must have established experience working with university or higher education student populations.
How to bid
This is an open tender: any eligible business can respond directly to the buyer by the deadline, with no framework membership needed.
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