Award

All Age Continuing Care Assessment, Review, Case Management and Brokerage Service 2025-2026 (including Adult CHC; Funded Nursing Care; Fast Track; Children and Young People Continuing Care; S117 and Joint Funded and Case Management service for identified cohorts).

NHS DERBY AND DERBYSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

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Award

26 Jan 2026 at 09:36

Summary of the contracting process

The procurement process was completed by the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) for the "All Age Continuing Care Assessment, Review, Case Management and Brokerage Service 2025-2026," which falls under the health services category. The contract was awarded due to extreme urgency, without prior publication of a call for competition, under the Health Care Services Provider Selection Regime Regulations 2023, bypassing the standard Procurement Act Regulations 2023. The contract, valued at £4,133,360, spans from 1st April 2025 to 31st December 2025 and addresses urgent circumstances to ensure continuity of health services across Derby and Derbyshire. The procurement stage is at the award stage, having been decided on 5th February 2025, to mitigate potential service disruptions and facilitate the transition towards the in-housing of services from January 2026.

This tender presents significant opportunities for growth, particularly for businesses in the health services sector, capable of providing integrated, multi-agency solutions. Companies with expertise in case management, patient care services, and partnership frameworks would be well-positioned to compete. The focus on ensuring patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and adherence to rigorous quality standards indicates a preference for businesses that can demonstrate the capacity for high-quality delivery in urgent and changing scenarios. The alignment with the personalisation agenda and healthcare governance requirements also suggests potential for innovative providers to contribute to service improvement and performance management.

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Notice Title

All Age Continuing Care Assessment, Review, Case Management and Brokerage Service 2025-2026 (including Adult CHC; Funded Nursing Care; Fast Track; Children and Young People Continuing Care; S117 and Joint Funded and Case Management service for identified cohorts).

Notice 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 Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award. The service case manages and reviews patients funded by the ICB to ensure patient safety, effectiveness and both clinical and financial benefit; this includes the negotiation and establishment of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) where appropriate and where guided, and adherence to the ICB's governance and sign off processes. The service is also required to deliver a brokerage service for care packages using a mixture of established provider frameworks and spot purchase providers, whilst supporting patient choice and personalisation agenda. Partnership and system working is an essential part of this service when assessing patients to determine eligibility, agreeing care package costings, undertaking MDT reviews, settling disputes with stakeholders, escalating quality concerns, supporting hospital discharges, and managing relationships with providers such as community healthcare trusts, acute trusts, Local Authorities, domiciliary homecare agencies, care homes and supported living providers. The service is solution focused and requires delivery via a multi-agency pathway to achieve a range of Key Performance Indicators, utilising a sufficient diverse skill mix to meet the required caseload activity and management team to facilitate service improvements, leadership and accountability. The service will perform effectively and timely in order to manage the average caseload (review) and referral numbers outlined below in order to meet the national Quality Premium targets and data submissions to NHS England/Improvement, local quality indicators, and high standard of expectation by the ICB. The ICB has made this award under urgent circumstances to mitigate disruption to the existing service and impact on staff and patient care, whilst it mobilises its commissioning intentions to in-house the service from 01st January 2026. The urgency has been in response to unforeseen delays in approving the commissioning intentions at a national level, which was anticipated to align with the contract end date of the 31st March 2025. An urgent award has been put in place with the incumbent provider to ensure continuity of provision during this transition period of in-housing the service to the ICB. A 9-month Award has been offered to support the mobilisation of these services within the ICB and support an exit plan to the in-housed service.

Lot Information

Lot 1

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 Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award. The service case manages and reviews patients funded by the ICB to ensure patient safety, effectiveness and both clinical and financial benefit; this includes the negotiation and establishment of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) where appropriate and where guided, and adherence to the ICB's governance and sign off processes. The service also delivers a brokerage service for care packages using a mixture of established provider frameworks and spot purchase providers, whilst supporting patient choice and personalisation agenda. The ICB has made this award under urgent circumstances to mitigate disruption to the existing service and impact on staff and patient care, whilst it mobilises its commissioning intentions to in-house the service from 01st January 2026. The urgency has been in response to unforeseen delays in approving the commissioning intentions at a national level, which was anticipated to align with the contract end date of the 31st March 2025. An urgent award has been put in place with the incumbent provider to ensure continuity of provision during this transition period of in-housing the service to the ICB. A 9-month Award has been offered to support the mobilisation of these services within the ICB and support an exit plan to the in-housed service. The total value of this award for a period of 9 months (from 01st April 2025 to 31st December 2025) is PS4,133,360. This Award has been made to ensure continuity of provision, whilst the ICB in-houses the service, from 01st January 2026.

Procurement Information

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 Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award. Re-award of contract to the incumbent provider. The reason for the urgency was not foreseeable or attributable to the ICB as the delay to in-housing of services has been as a result of national level decisions, which Commissioners cannot control. The time and resource required to undertake a compliant PSR open process is disproportionate to the term of the contract as it is only for 9 months to support the in-housing of service to the ICB and would likely pose a risk to patient safety if these services did not continue from 01st April 2025. Decision made by DDICB Executive team on 05th February 2025. No conflict of interest declared.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-060df9
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/006448-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services


CPV Codes

85100000 - Health services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£4,133,360 £1M-£10M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
26 Jan 20263 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
30 Dec 20251 months ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS DERBY AND DERBYSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
Contact Name
Kathryn Brown
Contact Email
kathryn.brown26@nhs.net
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
DERBY
Postcode
DE1 2FS
Post Town
Derby
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLF East Midlands (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLF1 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLF11 Derby
Delivery Location
TLF11 Derby, TLF12 East Derbyshire, TLF13 South and West Derbyshire

Local Authority
Derby
Electoral Ward
Darley
Westminster Constituency
Derby South

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT

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