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title: "NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-044e8d"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD"
published: "2024-03-28"
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# NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton

Buyer: NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-044e8d

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## Summary

The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board has completed the procurement process for the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton. This contract, valued at £15 million per year, has been awarded to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust with a start date of 1st April 2026. The procurement method used was the Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition.

This tender for Community Services in the northern area of Sefton creates business opportunities for companies providing health services such as district nursing, therapies, phlebotomy, podiatry, and treatment room care. Businesses in the health services industry that can offer high-quality and innovative solutions tailored to the local community's needs would be well-suited to compete for this contract with the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board.

## Notice

The Community Services that deliver local, accessible services such as district nursing, therapies, phlebotomy, podiatry, treatment room care for patients living in the northern area of Sefton Place.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB (Sefton Place) has awarded a contract for Community Services for patients living in the northern area of Sefton Place. This new contract will commence on 1st April 2026. This is a continuation of services that has been previously tendered and will enable NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB to align existing service provision in the North and Mid Mersey region. These services are being absorbed into the main Community Services contract that the Integrated Care Board holds with the provider and will be renewed in perpetuity on an annual basis. The contract is valued at PS15 million per year and subsequent years may be subject to an annual inflationary uplift which could be applied in line with usual contracting arrangements.

### Procurement Information

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations Explanation: - Additional deliveries by by the original supplier This is a Contract Award Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ('Regulations') as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015 Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication. General grounds (2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases: b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons: (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010414-2024 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 28 Mar 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 18 Sep 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £15,000,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD |
| 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 | TLD73 Sefton |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 28 Mar 2024 at 16:42 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010414-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/
- https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/

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