Official UK procurement notice
All Age Continuing Care Assessment, Review, Case Management and Brokerage Service 2025-2026 (including Adult CHC; Funded Nursing Care; Fast Track; Children and Young People Continuing Care; S117 and Joint Funded and Case Management service for identified cohorts).
Authority: NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award.
The service case manages and reviews patients funded by the ICB to ensure patient safety, effectiveness and both clinical and financial benefit; this includes the negotiation and establishment of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) where appropriate and where guided, and adherence to the ICB's governance and sign off processes. The service is also required to deliver a brokerage service for care packages using a mixture of established provider frameworks and spot purchase providers, whilst supporting patient choice and personalisation agenda.
Partnership and system working is an essential part of this service when assessing patients to determine eligibility, agreeing care package costings, undertaking MDT reviews, settling disputes with stakeholders, escalating quality concerns, supporting hospital discharges, and managing relationships with providers such as community healthcare trusts, acute trusts, Local Authorities, domiciliary homecare agencies, care homes and supported living providers.
The service is solution focused and requires delivery via a multi-agency pathway to achieve a range of Key Performance Indicators, utilising a sufficient diverse skill mix to meet the required caseload activity and management team to facilitate service improvements, leadership and accountability.
The service will perform effectively and timely in order to manage the average caseload (review) and referral numbers outlined below in order to meet the national Quality Premium targets and data submissions to NHS England/Improvement, local quality indicators, and high standard of expectation by the ICB.
The ICB has made this award under urgent circumstances to mitigate disruption to the existing service and impact on staff and patient care, whilst it mobilises its commissioning intentions to in-house the service from 01st January 2026. The urgency has been in response to unforeseen delays in approving the commissioning intentions at a national level, which was anticipated to align with the contract end date of the 31st March 2025. An urgent award has been put in place with the incumbent provider to ensure continuity of provision during this transition period of in-housing the service to the ICB. A 9-month Award has been offered to support the mobilisation of these services within the ICB and support an exit plan to the in-housed service.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Jan 2026, 09:36 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Jan 2026, 09:36 GMT
- Authority reference
DDICB_MLCSU_202526_Contract- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-006448- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060df9Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
Extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable for the contracting authority/entity and in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive
- Published justification
This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award.
Re-award of contract to the incumbent provider.
The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable or attributable to the ICB as the delay to in-housing of services has been as a result of national level decisions, which Commissioners cannot control.
The time and resource required to undertake a compliant PSR open process is disproportionate to the term of the contract as it is only for 9 months to support the in-housing of service to the ICB and would likely pose a risk to patient safety if these services did not continue from 01st April 2025.
Decision made by DDICB Executive team on 05th February 2025. No conflict of interest declared.
Publisher note: This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award. Re-award of contract to the incumbent provider. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable or attributable to the ICB as the delay to in-housing of services has been as a result of national level decisions, which Commissioners cannot control. The time and resource required to undertake a compliant PSR open process is disproportionate to the term of the contract as it is only for 9 months to support the in-housing of service to the ICB and would likely pose a risk to patient safety if these services did not continue from 01st April 2025. Decision made by DDICB Executive Team on 05th February 2025. No conflicts of interest declared.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support UnitAll Age Continuing Care Assessment, Review, Case Management and Brokerage Service 2025-2026 | £4,133,360 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
All Age Continuing Care Assessment, Review, Case Management and Brokerage Service 2025-2026 · Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
- Signed
- 30 Dec 2025
- Value
- £4,133,360
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICBReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support UnitAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.