---
title: "Continuing Health Service in Cheshire & Merseyside"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-077e01"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD"
published: "2026-09-30"
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# Continuing Health Service in Cheshire & Merseyside

Buyer: NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077e01

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## Summary

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board commissioned continuing healthcare services for individual patients across Cheshire and Merseyside. The work covers care funded by the NHS under the statutory National Framework, including continuing healthcare, funded nursing care and complex packages such as palliative care. It also includes continuing care for children and young people, specialist mental health care under Section 117 and specialist learning disability care. Care is arranged to meet each patient’s clinical needs, with service specifications governing delivery. This is a health and social care opportunity for providers able to deliver commissioned care across a range of settings and levels of complexity. The buyer is the Integrated Care Board, based in Warrington.

The procurement is complete and contracts were awarded through the Provider Selection Regime using Direct Award B, without a prior competition. The award decision followed approval by the ICB’s Finance, Investment and Resource Committee. Sixty-one suppliers were selected, including Abbeyfield Society, Advantage Healthcare, Affinity Healthcare, Greenacres Nursing Home, Home Group and Woodlands Care (Cheshire), alongside other care homes, home-care providers and organisations. Contracts were signed on 1 April 2025 and run from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. The recorded value is £0.01 per contract; the procurement description characterises the contract as nil value and says individual place agreements contain agreed costs. Evaluation gave patient choice a 99% weighting and price 1%.

This award shows that the ICB uses individual provider onboarding to meet immediate patient needs, as well as commissioning continuing healthcare across Cheshire and Merseyside. The supplier pool is broad: it includes home-care organisations, nursing and care homes, specialist care providers, education-related organisations and public bodies, with both small and large suppliers represented. A credible competitor would need to deliver commissioned, patient-specific care in line with the statutory National Framework and the relevant service specifications. The scope spans funded nursing and continuing healthcare, complex and palliative packages, children’s continuing care, Section 117 mental health services and specialist learning disability care. The stated evaluation weighting makes patient choice the dominant consideration, with price carrying a much smaller share.

## Notice

The main purpose of the service is to deliver a service that fully complies with the statutory National Framework in relation to NHS Funded Care. This includes delivery of commissioned care, per individual patient, in line with service specifications that cover: Continuing healthcare Funded nursing care Complex care packages including palliative care Children's and young people's continuing care Specialist mental health care (Section 117) Specialist learning disabilities

### Lot Information

Lot 1

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Cheshire Place has awarded a contract via Direct Award B to deliver a CHC service in Cheshire & Merseyside. The contract will start on the 1st of April 2025 and expire on 31st March 2026. The contract will be of nil value and will include individual place agreements within the contract that will include agreed costs. Then include one of the following statements: This is a new provider delivering existing CHC Service across Cheshire and Merseyside. or This is an existing provider delivering existing CHC Service across Cheshire and Merseyside

### Procurement Information

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 Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/092552-2026 |
| 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, SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 30 Sep 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## 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 |
| Postcode area | 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 | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 57 |
| Supplier names | The Abbeyfield Society Ltd; Interserve Healthcare Ltd; Affinity Healthcare Limited; Aggregate Holdings Limited; Ash Croft Care Limited; Bellfred Limited; Care Concepts Limited; CareCaliRaya Ltd; Community Care Direct Limited; Crestview Care Ltd; Executive Home Care Services Limited; GAP KARE LIMITED; Greenacres Nursing Home Limited; Highpoint Care (West Derby) Limited; Hummingbird Home Help and Care Limited; Instream Partnership Limited; Keys Group Progressive Education Limited; Lancashire County Council; Longton Home Ltd; Manuel Divine Care; ME 2U Centre Limited; Mount Pleasant Nursing Home; Natural Breaks Limited; NFC Health & Social Care Ltd; Oceancross Ltd; PARK HOMES (UK) LIMITED; Pressbeau Limited; Rayman Group Limited; RMD Care Services Limited; Sable Cottage Limited; Sandstone Care North West Ltd; SEFTON CARERS CENTRE; Share The Care; The Integral Care Hub Ltd; Tordan Healthcare; Turner Home; Victoria Community Care Ltd; Westmorland Healthcare Limited; WOODLANDS CARE (CHESHIRE) LIMITED; R-H-P Outreach Services Ltd; Stapely Jewish Care Home Limited; Courtyard Care Limited; Crown Care Rossendale Limited; DREW CARE LIMITED; ECH (Embrace Care Homes) Colwyn Bay Limited; Equilibrium Healthcare Limited; First Call Community Systems Ltd; Forevermore Care Group; HAPPY VALLEY HOME CARE LIMITED; Heathbrock Limited; Home Group; MANOR CARE HOME; MAYDEN SUPPORT LTD; Mayfield Homecare Services Limited; Moorlands Home Care Limited; New Age Care Limited; Sherborne Court Neurological Centre Limited |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 30 Sep 2026 at 16:21 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/092552-2026

## Notice URLs

- http://www.abbeyfield.com
- http://www.apollocare.co.uk
- http://www.candchealthcare.co.uk
- http://www.careconcepts.co.uk
- http://www.cedarscaregroup.co.uk
- http://www.chesterlodgenursinghome.co.uk
- http://www.communitycaredirect.co.uk
- http://www.crestviewcare.co.uk
- http://www.crowncarerossendale.co.uk/
- http://www.executivehomecareservices.com/
- http://www.forevermorecare.com
- http://www.highpointcare.co.uk
- http://www.holistic-careservices.co.uk
- http://www.homegroup.org.uk
- http://www.homeinstead.co.uk/leek-moorlands
- http://www.hummingbirdhomehelpandcare.co.uk
- http://www.icarehub.co.uk
- http://www.kingsleyhealthcare.com
- http://www.lancashire.gov.uk
- http://www.liverpooljewish.com
- http://www.manorcarecheshire.co.uk
- http://www.maydensupport.co.uk
- http://www.mayfieldhomecare.com
- http://www.mountpleasantnursinghome.co.uk
- http://www.newagecare.co.uk
- http://www.parkhomesuk.co.uk
- http://www.pressbeau.co.uk
- http://www.radfieldhomecare.co.uk
- http://www.raymanhealthcare.co.uk
- http://www.sablecottage.com
- http://www.sandstonecare.co.uk
- http://www.selecthealthcaregroup.com
- http://www.sharethehomecare.co.uk
- http://www.tordanhealthcare.co.uk
- http://www.victoriacommunitycare.co.uk
- http://www.woodlands.care
- https://embracecarehomes.com/
- https://equilibrium.healthcare/
- https://greenacrescare.co.uk/
- https://happyvalleycare.co.uk/
- https://me2ucentre.co.uk/
- https://nfchasc.com
- https://sefton-carers.org.uk/
- https://westmorlandcourt.co.uk/
- https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk
- https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/
- https://www.gapkare.co.uk/
- https://www.instream.org.uk/
- https://www.keys-group.co.uk/education/send-schools/liverpool-progressive-school
- https://www.longtonnursinghome.co.uk/
- https://www.naturalbreaks.co.uk/
- https://www.priorygroup.com/
- https://www.swantoncare.com/branch/location-emilys-house/
- https://www.turnerliverpool.com/

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