Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
1 Lakeside 920, Centre Park Square
Warrington
WA11QY
Contact
Anna Roberts
anna.roberts@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKD61 - Warrington
NHS Organisation Data Service
QYG
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
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.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £15,000,000
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKD73 - Sefton
Main site or place of performance
Northern geographical area of Sefton - Southport & Formby
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
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 £15 million per year and subsequent years may be subject to an annual inflationary uplift which could be applied in line with usual contracting arrangements.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
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:
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.
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
Section five. Award of contract
Title
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Community Services for North Sefton
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19 September 2023
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
V7 Building, Kings Business Park,
Prescot
L34 1 PJ
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKD71 - East Merseyside
NHS Organisation Data Service
RW4
Internet address
https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £15,000,000
Total value of the contract/lot: £15,000,000
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) has previously published the VEAT Notice for award.
F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice Notice reference: 2023/S 000-038013
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB)
No1 Lakeside, Centre Park
Warrington
WA1 1QY
Country
United Kingdom