--- title: "NHS Cheshire & Merseyside - Sefton Place - Medical Cover for IC Beds" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT" published: "2023-10-02" --- # NHS Cheshire & Merseyside - Sefton Place - Medical Cover for IC Beds Buyer: STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-91b34006-4e85-4ba3-aca0-0e8416193fcb.json) ## Summary The NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board, supported by STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT, is seeking a provider for Medical Cover for Intermediate Care Beds at Sefton Place. The contract, with a value of £300,000 per annum and a total of £1,500,000 over 5 years, is set to start on 1st April 2024 for an initial 3-year period, extendable for an additional 2 years. The procurement stage is currently active with a tender deadline of 31st October 2023. This procurement falls under the services category within the General Practitioner Services industry, focused on the North West region in the United Kingdom. This tender for Medical Cover presents significant business opportunities for SMEs and VCSEs operating in the healthcare sector. Companies providing primary care, medical services, and healthcare staffing solutions are well-suited to compete for this contract. The procurement method used is 'Other - Pseudo-Open under Light Touch Regime', allowing diverse suppliers to participate in the tender process. The contract period spans 5 years, offering stability for businesses looking to establish long-term partnerships within the healthcare industry. ## Notice NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is supporting NHS Cheshire &Merseyside Integrated Care Board who is looking for a provider of Medical Cover for Intermediate Care Beds for Sefton place (Southport & Formby only). This service is to provide primary care support to medically optimised patients as part of the intermediate care multidisciplinary team. This includes patients who have been stepped down from the acute hospital trust and patients who have been stepped up via the two-hour urgent care response service. This cover will be provided five days per week from 8am to 6.30pm. Delivery will include ward round reviews, plus on-call arrangements for the management of those patients who have deteriorated and are at risk of hospital admission. This will be for a total of forty-six beds over two to three locations. The service will engage with multidisciplinary process and interface with secondary care, community geriatrician, pharmacy, and community services to ensure patient safety and manage patient flow. Thirty five of the forty-six are currently subject to a procurement exercise and the appointed provider of the medical cover will be notified of the provider of these thirty-five beds once the procurement exercise has been completed. The contract is to be awarded for a start date of 1st April 2024 for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2-year period. The value of the contract is PS300,000 per annum with a total of PS1,500,00 over the total 5-year period. The Authority has set an affordability threshold for the Procurement and reserves the right not to consider Bids that are unaffordable and above the affordability envelope of the project, or in in absence of an affordability envelope, this notice value. The Authority may seek clarification on bids that are unusually low or above the affordability threshold. Following clarification, it will reserve the right not to consider Bids that are either above the affordability threshold or unusually low. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Further information is available fromhttps://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Additional information: This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. As the Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/79b04e4f-b5dc-41b5-8973-705f5e6f8580 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Other - Pseudo-Open under Light Touch Regime | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 2 Oct 2023 | | Submission deadline | 31 Oct 2023 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2029 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £1,500,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT | | Locality | WARRINGTON | | Post town | Warrington | | Postcode | WA1 1QY | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLD6 Cheshire | | ITL 3 | TLD61 Warrington | | Local authority | Warrington | | Electoral ward | Bewsey and Whitecross | | Westminster constituency | Warrington South | | Delivery location | TLD North West (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85121100 - General-practitioner services ## Release History - 2 Oct 2023 at 11:10 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/79b04e4f-b5dc-41b5-8973-705f5e6f8580 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/79b04e4f-b5dc-41b5-8973-705f5e6f8580 2nd October 2023 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ## Notice URLs - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made - https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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