Official UK procurement notice
Cheshire Community and Palliative Care Services
Authority: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionCheshire and Merseyside ICB has directly awarded contracts via a contract modification for Cheshire community and palliative care services to the incumbent provider.
Community Services for East Cheshire only, commenced on the 1st October 2023 for 12 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months.
Palliative Care Services for Cheshire East and Cheshire West commenced on the 1st October 2023 for 18 months to 31st March 2025.
CPV: Health services
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · no lot values publishedLot #1Palliative Care Services in Cheshire East and Cheshire WestCancelled
The Palliative Care in Partnership (PCIP) service is a Cheshire-wide collaboration which provides home (domiciliary) care to people in Cheshire who have palliative care needs and who are receiving end of life care. The service supports patients and those important to them in their own home, to ensure that patients care needs are met to maximise quality of life during their final weeks.
Lot #2Community Services for Cheshire EastCancelled
The Community Service delivers local, accessible services such as district nursing, therapies, phlebotomy, podiatry, treatment room care.
The Community Services contract for Cheshire East was previously put out for tender and then recommissioned in 2016 on the basis of the 'most capable provider'. There was a 2 year extension option included in the contract which was enacted in 2021 and expired at the end of September 2023
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 Feb 2024, 14:20 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Feb 2024, 14:20 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-006273- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043d2eFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below:
- Additional deliveries by by the original supplier
Explanation:
This is a Contract Award Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015('Regulations') as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations.
Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication.
General grounds
(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:
b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons:
(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not linked to a lot1 award | |||
| Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | £33,000,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 006273-2024-1 · Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Signed
- 17 Sept 2023
- Value
- £33,000,000
- 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 Cheshire and Merseyside ICBReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.