Notice Information
Notice Title
NHSE1050 - Host Organisation - North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Contract No C345988
Notice Description
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a care system support organisation working for and on behalf of NHS England - North West Specialised Commissioning and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board - (Lead ICB), NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (the Relevant Authorities),who undertook a competition to commission a Host Organisation - to deliver and manage the North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award 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 Contracts Regulations 2015 did not apply to this award. The contract term was for a period of 5 years. The Host Organisation contract was to be awarded by July 2025, and full mobilisation of the service would have been confirmed in line with the awarded Host Organisation's mobilisation plan. This was anticipated to be between July 2025 and 01 April 2026, not withstanding any supply issues to mobilise the service. The five-year contract will commence from full mobilisation of the service. The closing time and date for submission of competition response was 12:00 Noon on 09 May 2025. NECS did utilise an electronic tendering tool to manage the competition and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there was no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS including response submissions, was conducted via the Atamis portal at https://health-family.force.com/Welcome It is free to register on the portal and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection. Should providers have experienced any queries, or were having problems registering on the portal; they were advised to contact the Atamis helpdesk via: Support-health@Atamis.co.uk or phone number 0800 9956035 The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 08.00 am - 06.00 pm. Competition documentation was available on the e-tendering site from 12:00 Noon on 10 April 2025. Potential Providers were advised to look for NHSE1050 - North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Contract No C345988. The Host Organisation was required to provide all the requirements within the annual financial threshold of 5.66 million GBP and the successful Host Organisation should be an NHS Acute Trust who is CQC registered for the provision of General Adult Critical Care Services. Please note after award and before the commencement date the successful provider was required to occupy and deliver the service from a base located within the North West.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Host Organisation to procure, deliver and manage the North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The contract term is for a period of 5 years. Contract commencement was anticipated to be between July 2025 and 01 April 2026, not withstanding any supply issues to mobilise the service. The Host Organisation was required to provide all the requirements within the annual financial threshold of 5.66 million GDP per annum and the successful Host Organisation should be an NHS Acute Trust who is CQC registered for the provision of General Adult Critical Care Services. Please note after award and before the commencement date the successful provider was required to occupy and deliver the service from a base located within the North West. Competition documentation was available on the e-tendering site by 12:00 Noon on 10 April 2025. Potential Providers were advised to look for NHSE1050 - Host Organisation -North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Contract No C345988 The closing time and date for submission of competition response was by 12:00 Noon on 09 May 2025. Additional information: Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria were stated in the procurement documents
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-050040
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029571-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £28,300,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £28,300,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Jun 20258 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 9 May 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 3 Jun 20258 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Unsuccessful
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Unsuccessful
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD - LEAD ICB
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- necsu.psrprocurement@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- WARRINGTON
- Postcode
- WA1 1QY
- Post Town
- Warrington
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD6 Cheshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD61 Warrington
- Delivery Location
- TLD North West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Warrington
- Electoral Ward
- Bewsey and Whitecross
- Westminster Constituency
- Warrington South
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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