{ "tag": [ "compiled" ], "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-05597f-2025-07-04T17:44:13+01:00", "date": "2025-07-04T17:44:13+01:00", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-05597f", "description": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. 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 Contract Regulations 2015 or it's replacement the Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award. The Award decision makers for this procurement were Director of Finance dated 5th June 2025. There were no conflicts of interest declared.", "initiationType": "tender", "tender": { "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-05597f", "legalBasis": { "id": "32014L0024", "scheme": "CELEX" }, "title": "Provision of Acute Visiting Service for South Staffordshire", "status": "complete", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85100000", "description": "Health services" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "description": "This Contract award notice is placed under the Healthcare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Regulation 14 for an Urgent Award where the ICB is awarding this contract and concluded that this is the only available option, fulfilling all the requirements of Regulation 14 (2). This has been enacted due to the incumbent supplier, Vocare Ltd entering administration. The service is essential and therefore an emergency award was approved by the ICB board. The selected provider is PHL Group who have acquired the trading subsidiaries of Totally plc. The ICB has implemented a caretaking arrangement with this provider to deliver Acute Visiting Services for South Staffordshire from 05.06.25 until the end of the existing contractual timeframe (31.03.27) for the contract whilst process is undertaken to secure a longer-term contract and provider. The ICB will ensure that continuity of care of the patients are paramount and that risks and issues identified as part of the process are mitigated. This approach will ensure the safety of patients and provide stability to services while the ICB conducts a full options appraisal of the long-term future of the contract.", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "This Contract award notice is placed under the Healthcare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Regulation 14 for an Urgent Award where the ICB is awarding this contract and concluded that this is the only available option, fulfilling all the requirements of Regulation 14 (2). This has been enacted due to the incumbent supplier, Vocare Ltd entering administration. The service is essential and therefore an emergency award was approved by the ICB board. The selected provider is PHL Group who have acquired the trading subsidiaries of Totally plc. The ICB has implemented a caretaking arrangement with this provider to deliver Acute Visiting Services for South Staffordshire from 05.06.25 until the end of the existing contractual timeframe (31.03.27) for the contract whilst process is undertaken to secure a longer-term contract and provider. The ICB will ensure that continuity of care of the patients are paramount and that risks and issues identified as part of the process are mitigated. This approach will ensure the safety of patients and provide stability to services while the ICB conducts a full options appraisal of the long-term future of the contract.", "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "type": "price" } ] }, "hasOptions": false, "status": "cancelled" } ], "items": [ { "id": "1", "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKG24" } ], "deliveryLocation": { "description": "South Staffordshire" }, "relatedLot": "1" } ], "procurementMethod": "limited", "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition", "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL", "id": "D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE", "description": "The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive" } ], "procurementMethodRationale": "This Contract award notice is placed under the Healthcare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Regulation 14 for an Urgent Award where the ICB is awarding this contract and concluded that this is the only available option, fulfilling all the requirements of Regulation 14 (2). This does not require the ICB to publish a Find a Tender notice in advance of the decision. This has been enacted due to the incumbent supplier, Vocare Ltd (as part of Totally plc) entering administration. The service is essential and therefore an emergency award was approved by the ICB board." }, "awards": [ { "id": "037587-2025-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-NHS-AQN01", "name": "PHL Group V1 Ltd" } ] } ], "parties": [ { "id": "GB-NHS-QNC", "name": "NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB", "identifier": { "legalName": "NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB", "id": "QNC", "scheme": "GB-NHS" }, "address": { "locality": "Stafford", "region": "UKG24", "postalCode": "ST18 0BF", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "contactPoint": { "email": "contractingrequests@staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "url": "https://staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk", "classifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE", "id": "BODY_PUBLIC", "description": "Body governed by public law" }, { "scheme": "COFOG", "id": "07", "description": "Health" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-NHS-AQN01", "name": "PHL Group V1 Ltd", "identifier": { "legalName": "PHL Group V1 Ltd", "id": "AQN01", "scheme": "GB-NHS" }, "address": { "locality": "Fareham", "region": "UKK", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-125170", "name": "NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB", "identifier": { "legalName": "NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB" }, "address": { "locality": "Stafford", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "reviewBody" ] } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-NHS-QNC", "name": "NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB" }, "contracts": [ { "id": "037587-2025-1", "awardID": "037587-2025-1", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 2328589, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2025-06-05T00:00:00+01:00" } ], "bids": { "statistics": [ { "id": "1", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 1 } ] }, "language": "en" }