Notice Information
Notice Title
Meet & Greet Service (Luton)
Notice Description
Meet & Greet Hospital Aftercare Service.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The service has the following objectives:
*Support early facilitated patient discharge from hospital - following an attendance at Accident and Emergency; an acute inpatient stay or a planned surgical procedure.
*Offer flexible, tailored levels of support once the patient returns home, which promotes and sustains independent living.
*Offers non-medical interventions to patients following discharge from hospital to enable them to remain at home and prevent readmission due to lack of basic home support.
*Help to reduce further hospital readmissions by supporting those people who have recently been discharged from hospital to receive longer term support when required.
*To provide a programme of reablement focusing on skills for individual's daily living, that enables them to live more independently and reduce the need for ongoing support.
*Facilitates service user access into other voluntary and community based services that enables them to feel socially active and improves their capacity for independent living.
*Support annual health and social care campaigns such as reducing excess winter deaths, including seasonal flu vaccination campaign
*Improve patient experience and levels of confidence.
The expected outcomes of the Hospital Aftercare Service are:
*Clients report that their confidence to remain at home and live independently has increased
*That clients report good service satisfaction after a period of intervention from the service.
*A reduction in the number of bed days required by clients accessing the service
*A reduction in the use of hospital transport home following discharge
*An increase in the numbers of early facilitated patient discharges from hospital
*To maintain or reduce the percentage of patients that have a re-admission to hospital
BLMK ICB are intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C for the following:
Meet & Greet Service
The contract is for a period of 1 year from 1st April 2026.
The expected lifetime value of the contract is PS139,103.00
Procurement Information
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to 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 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by midnight 25th March 2026. This contract has not yet formally been awarded: this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Any written representations should be sent to agem.blmkicb.tntracker@nhs.net.<br/>The BLMK ICB Chiefs (Executives) gave approval of this in September 2025 at the scheduled Chiefs (Executives) Meeting. Conflicts of interests have been managed in line with the ICB's Conflicts of Interest and Standards of Business Conduct Policy.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-066991
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022872-2026
- 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
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85323000 - Community health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £139,103 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Mar 2026Yesterday
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 2 Mar 20261 weeks ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS BEDFORDSHIRE, LUTON AND MILTON KEYNES INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BEDFORDSHIRE
- Postcode
- SG17 5TQ
- Post Town
- Stevenage
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH25 Central Bedfordshire
- Delivery Location
- TLH25 Central Bedfordshire
-
- Local Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Electoral Ward
- Shefford
- Westminster Constituency
- Hitchin
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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