Official UK procurement notice
Community End of Life Care
Authority: NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCommunity End of Life Care: Lymphoedema Service
The ICB is awarding this contract via Direct Award Process C. The total contract value is £458,100.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Community End of Life Care: Lymphoedema Service from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025Awarded
Community End of Life Care: Lymphoedema Service from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025.
The aim of the service is:
•To provide holistic and disease specific evidence-based care in the management of patients who have Palliative Lymphoedema (all cause), Secondary/Primary Lymphoedema (all cause), Chronic Oedema (all cause) or Lipidoedema.
•To provide an integrated seamless service incorporating the treatment of primary and secondary Lymphoedema.
•To prepare and support patients or informal carers with self-management if appropriate.
•To offer training of community staff - one session per month for ten individuals. This is formal training consisting of theory and practical sessions on the management of lower limb oedema.
•Additionally, the service will provide informal support to district nursing teams, undertake joint visits, and offer on the job support and advice to teams. This will allow non-complex patients to be referred to the community teams for ongoing non-specialist treatment. However, patients can be referred back to the specialist team at any time.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Feb 2025, 13:33 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Feb 2025, 13:33 GMT
- Authority reference
BC HC 092- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-004733- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04de22Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
Representations should be sent to: bcicb.contracts@nhs.net.
The decision to award the contract was made by the ICB Contracts Team and the Lead Commissioner. No conflicts of interest were identified in reaching the decision to award this contract.
This decision has been made as per the Black Country ICB Governance Process. This service has been fully assessed against the key criteria to determine that the provider is satisfying and will continue to satisfy the contract for the period of the contract award.
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. Representations should be sent to: bcicb.contracts@nhs.net. The decision to award the contract was made by the ICB Contracts Team and the Lead Commissioner. No conflicts of interest were identified in reaching the decision to award this contract. This decision has been made as per the Black Country ICB Governance Process. This service has been fully assessed against the key criteria to determine that the provider is satisfying and will continue to satisfy the contract for the period of the contract award.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lymphcare UK CIC | £458,100 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 004733-2025-1 · Lymphcare UK CIC
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2024
- Value
- £458,100
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Lymphcare UK CICAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.