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Published 4 Jul 2025, 14:34 BST

Official UK procurement notice

North Cumbria Waiting Well Service - Fit4Life

Official notice

Authority: NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (Central government)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North West (UKD1)

Awarded value£31,954published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 1 Apr 2025no call for competition

Awarded to Fit4Life Cumbria

What is being bought

Published requirement description

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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award.

Do to urgent need, an implied contract has been in place since 01 April 2025 but contracts were signed off 27 June 2025.

The contract is to provide the waiting well service for patients registered with General Practices that are part of the waiting well programme. The aim of the service is to support the target cohort of patients to use the time they wait for surgery to prepare mentally, emotionally, socially and physically for their procedure, with a view to helping minimise those not ready/fit for surgery, minimise recovery time post surgery and maximise surgical outcomes. Fit4Life will provider a tiered service offer to patients providing personalised care based on their individual needs/complexity.

The Waiting Well programme is a sub project under of the Healthier Fairer programme. This programme was started as a proof of concept.

CPV: Community health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: North West · North Cumbria

85323000 Community health services

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: 4 Jul 2025, 14:34 BST
Last source update: 8 Aug 2025, 11:07 BST
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-047194
Classification (CPV): Community health services
Delivery area: North West (UKD1)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05593b Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: Proof of concept services. An implied contract has been in place since 01 April but contracts were signed off 27 June 2025.

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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award. Decision to award made via the NENC ICB Contracting Subcommittee - 27 June 2025. Conflicts of Interest were managed and no conflicts of interest declared.

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender

Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)

When	What	Before	After	Shift
—	TextEstimated Total Value and Total Value of Contract · V.2.4	Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £31,954.29 Total value of the contract/lot: £31,954.29	Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £37,280 Total value of the contract/lot: £37,280

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £31,9541 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 1latest 1 Apr 2025

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Fit4Life CumbriaSME	£31,954 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

North Cumbria Waiting Well Service - Fit4Life · Fit4Life CumbriaSME
Signed
1 Apr 2025
Value
£31,954
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth GB-NHS: QHM PEMBERTON HOUSE COLIMA AVENUE SUNDERLAND ENTERPRISE PARK, Sunderland, North East, SR53XBContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Fit4Life CumbriaAwarded supplierGB-COH: 05662213 The Senhouse Centre, Senhouse Street, Whitehaven, North West, CA287ES

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.