Official UK procurement notice
NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board Personalised Home Care Any Qualified Provider
Authority: NHS SURREY AND SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Surrey and Sussex ICB have opened the NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Contract for applications. This procurement is run as a competitive process (with multi-provider award) under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR).
The Contract covers the personalised commissioning of adult All Age Continuing Care (AACC) funded home care for individuals in Sussex assessed as eligible, including end-of-life care via the Fast Track Pathway and specialist and non-specialist NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC).
The services will be delivered by CQC registered home care providers (CQC service type: domiciliary care service) or by CQC registered hospice providers delivering hospice at home services. The contract will include both non-specialist and specialist home care services under defined Care Tiers.
Applications are open from 22 June 2026 and will close at 5:00 pm on 24 July 2026. Services will commence from 1 November 2026. Timelines are indicative and may be subject to change.
The Contract Term is 3 years from service commencement, and the Commissioner may opt to extend the Contract Term by up to 2 years, in accordance with Schedule 1C of the Contract Particulars.
CPV: Community health services · Home medical treatment services · Services provided by nurses
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Applications must be submitted through CarePulse eProcurement: Full details of the…
Applications must be submitted through CarePulse eProcurement: www.eprocurement.carepulse.co.uk ↗. Full details of the qualification criteria are provided in the procurement documents, available from the CarePulse eProcurement site.
To be eligible, a provider must operate at least one CQC-registered service location which is not rated Inadequate. In addition, the service location must satisfy at least one of the following: it has a CQC-registered address within Sussex or within 3 miles of the Sussex border; or it holds Treatment of Disease, Disorder or Injury (TDDI) registration.
All providers that meet the eligibility and qualification criteria will be awarded a contract.
There is no limit to the number of Providers that can join the Contract. All awarded providers will be added to the AQP list which will be the primary route for the ICB to commission CHC home care packages. Please note that it is a zero-value contract, so there is no guaranteed volume of activity or payment to providers. There is no minimum number of packages that the Provider can expect to receive through the Contract.
The Contract will include both non-specialist and specialist home care services under defined Care Tiers. Providers will be able to select the Care Tiers and areas that they can deliver against. Providers are not required to deliver against all Care Tiers or in all areas.
Queries relating to the tender must be submitted through CarePulse eProcurement. The deadline for submitting queries is 5:00pm, 10 July 2026.
Evalucom are managing the procurement process on behalf of the NHS Surrey and Sussex ICB Commissioning Authority.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (1)
- Quality criteria are stated only in the procurement documents, available at https://www.eprocurement.carepulse.co.uk: 100%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality criteria are stated only in the procurement documents, available at https://www.eprocurement.carepulse.co.uk: 100
- Price not evaluated; providers confirmed acceptance of rates set out in the contract: 0
- Suitability
The eligibility and selection criteria are listed in the procurement documents, which are available for unrestricted and full direct access at www.eprocurement.carepulse.co.uk ↗.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Jun 2026, 15:12 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Jun 2026, 15:12 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 27 Jul 2026 – …
- Authority reference
SRRYSSSX-PHC-AQP-PSR-CP-2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058604- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba4eFind a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to 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. A Prior Information Notice (PIN) was published on 4 December 2025 to invite home care providers to help shape the service specification for this AQP Contract. This PIN was for market engagement only, not a call for competition. This PIN can be found using the following Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-079880, or via the following link: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079880-2025?origin=SearchResults&p=1.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 24 Jul 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 27 Jul 2026, 09:00 BST
Timeline
22 Jun 2026 → 1 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Notice published129 days ago22 Jun 2026, 15:12 BST
- Submission deadline96 days ago24 Jul 2026, 17:00 BST
- Bids opened94 days ago27 Jul 2026, 09:00 BST
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 2 days1 Nov 2026
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB)Review body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria