The private healthcare firm currently holds the contract to provide children's health and wellbeing services in Devon and Torbay.
But following a tender process, the two clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for the area is set to appoint Devon Children and Families Alliance, which includes local NHS trusts, to run the service.
The alliance has been nominated as the preferred bidder for the contract by Northern Eastern and Western Devon (NEW Devon) CCG and South Devon and Torbay CCG.
The seven-year contract, which has the possibility of a three-year extension period, begins from April 2019.
Included in the contract are child and adolescent community mental health services (CAMHS), looked-after children nursing, learning disability and autism support as well as speech and language therapy, school nursing, palliative care and occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
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