Official UK procurement notice
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton
Authority: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Community Services that deliver local, accessible services such as district nursing, therapies, phlebotomy, podiatry, treatment room care for patients living in the northern area of Sefton Place.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB (Sefton Place) has awarded a contract for Community…Awarded
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB (Sefton Place) has awarded a contract for Community Services for patients living in the northern area of Sefton Place. This new contract will commence on 1st April 2026.
This is a continuation of services that has been previously tendered and will enable NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB to align existing service provision in the North and Mid Mersey region.
These services are being absorbed into the main Community Services contract that the Integrated Care Board holds with the provider and will be renewed in perpetuity on an annual basis.
The contract is valued at £15 million per year and subsequent years may be subject to an annual inflationary uplift which could be applied in line with usual contracting arrangements.
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
- 28 Mar 2024, 16:42 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Mar 2024, 16:42 GMT
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-010414- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- 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
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations
Explanation:
- Additional deliveries by by the original supplier
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 2015 Section 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.
Publisher note: NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) has previously published the VEAT Notice for award. F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice Notice reference: 2023/S 000-038013
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust | £15,000,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton · Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Signed
- 19 Sept 2023
- Value
- £15,000,000
- 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 Integrated Care Board (ICB)Review body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Mersey Care NHS Foundation TrustAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.