Notice Information
Notice Title
Community Frailty Service (Brent)
Notice Description
Northwest London faces unique challenges in delivering a community frailty service due to its diverse population, significant health inequalities, and a growing elderly demographic. This service aims to provide comprehensive, proactive, and coordinated care to support people with frailty living in the community, ensuring they receive the right care in the right place at the right time. North West London Integrated Care Board is looking to establish a unified, high-quality community frailty service in Brent with the following outcomes and benefits: * Improved Patient Outcomes: Delayed progression of frailty, reduced inappropriate hospital admissions, and enhanced quality of life for people living with frailty. * Cost-Effectiveness: Reduced use of unplanned care and more efficient use of healthcare resources. * Enhanced Patient and Carer Experience: Better coordination of care and increased satisfaction with services provided. The successful Bidder will align the service with national guidelines and best practice guidelines, the NHS Frailty toolkit, the Fit for Frailty Guidelines and the recommendations from the NWL ICB Community Frailty Common Core Offer Framework. As well as: * Build from and consolidate good practice across the boroughs * Improve efficiency, integration between services and provides a more scaled up and consistent offer for community frailty services across the boroughs * Develop an improved delivery mechanism supported by proactive identification, and integrated multi-agency teams to support patients with frailty * Have a greater (and timely) impact on people with escalating risks, with better experience and outcomes and if delivered effectively, overall greater sustainability. * Address the inequality and differential access to services and focus on the right care, at the right place and at the right time. The ICB will be following the PSR Competitive Process. The contract will be for 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 months i.e. 3+1+1. The start date of the contract will be 01 July 2026. TUPE may apply to this contract. The Trusts are utilising an electronic tendering system ("E-Tendering Portal") to manage this procurement and communicate with Tenderers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to Tenderers and all communications, including the submission of Tender responses will be conducted solely via the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Please also ensure that you are registered on the 'Central Digital Platform' as per the cabinet office guidance. Central Digital Platform link -https://signin.account.gov.uk/sign-in-or-create
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: 2 x 12 months extension i.e. +1+1
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05ec26
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078578-2025
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK4 - Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85100000 - Health services
85323000 - Community health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £11,178,526 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £11,178,526 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 19 Jan 2026Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 30 Jun 2026 - 30 Jun 2029 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS NORTH WEST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Contact Name
- Emma Taylor
- Contact Email
- emma.taylor199@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- NW1 5JD
- Post Town
- North West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI3 Inner London - West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI35 Westminster and City of London
- Delivery Location
- TLI72 Brent
-
- Local Authority
- Westminster
- Electoral Ward
- Marylebone
- Westminster Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/078578-2025
1st December 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
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