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title: "Care Home Enhanced Rapid Response Service (CHERRS)"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04e7ce"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB"
published: "2025-03-11"
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# Care Home Enhanced Rapid Response Service (CHERRS)

Buyer: NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04e7ce

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## Summary

NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB has concluded the procurement process for the Care Home Enhanced Rapid Response Service (CHERRS). This service falls under the "Health services" industry category and aims to provide timely reactive care to manage acute illnesses and long-term conditions for care home residents. The contract has been awarded through Direct Award Process C under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The contract, valued at £812,364, will commence on 1st April 2025 and end on 31st March 2027. The buying organisation's contact point is NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB, located in Pemberton House, Sunderland, UKC.

This procurement provides significant opportunities for businesses specialising in health services, particularly those with expertise in providing rapid response care and managing long-term conditions. Companies with strong capabilities in advanced clinical skills, non-medical prescribing, and effective clinical decision-making will find this contract highly beneficial. The award criteria focused on key competencies, which were clearly outlined in the procurement documents, offering a structured and transparent selection process. Businesses capable of delivering high levels of communication and problem-solving skills, ensuring risk management in care settings, will be especially well-suited to fulfil this contract.

## Notice

The service will provide timely reactive care, anticipating disease exacerbation and manage acute illness based on the providers in depth understanding of long-term conditions as part of a person-centered approach. The provider will ensure the service provides high levels of communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills that will ensure risk can be managed appropriately. The provider will ensure that staff take responsibility for their own decisions, through advanced clinical skills including non-medical prescribing and physical assessment to support effective clinical decision making in relation to the wellbeing of care home residents.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The service will provide timely reactive care, anticipating disease exacerbation and manage acute illness based on the providers in depth understanding of long-term conditions as part of a person-centered approach. The provider will ensure the service provides high levels of communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills that will ensure risk can be managed appropriately. The provider will ensure that staff take responsibility for their own decisions, through advanced clinical skills including non-medical prescribing and physical assessment to support effective clinical decision making in relation to the wellbeing of care home residents. The relevant authority intends to award a contract to an existing provider under Direct Award C under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) regulations 2023. The final contract value is still to be finalised as it is dependent on the national NHS planning guidance which is still to be released. As an indication the 2023/24 contract value is PS406,182. Contract Start Date: 01 April 2025 Contract End Date: 31 March 2027

### 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 on 10/03/2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. A contract will not be awarded until after the 9th working day following standstill.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008649-2025 |
| Notice type | Tender 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 |
| All stages | Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 11 Mar 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 25 Feb 2025 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £812,364 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA ICB |
| Locality | SUNDERLAND |
| Post town | Sunderland |
| Postcode | SR4 6SJ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear |
| ITL 3 | TLC44 Sunderland |
| Local authority | Sunderland |
| Electoral ward | Pallion |
| Westminster constituency | Sunderland Central |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | ELM ALLIANCE |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 11 Mar 2025 at 09:52 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008649-2025
- 25 Feb 2025 at 14:27 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007163-2025

## Notice URLs

- https://northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk

## Provenance

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