Contract

NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB –Sefton Place – Community Services

  • NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-029238

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0407cb

Published 4 October 2023, 11:57am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

Regatta Place, Brunswick Business Park, Summers Lane

Liverpool

L3 4BL

Contact

Helen Graham

Email

mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKD6 - Cheshire

Internet address(es)

Main address

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

Buyer's 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 & Merseyside ICB –Sefton Place – Community Services

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85100000 - Health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside – Sefton Place who has awarded a 2-year contract for Community Services for patients living in the southern area of Sefton Place, which commenced on 1st June 2022.

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: £50,000,000

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKD73 - Sefton

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside – Sefton Place who has awarded a 2-year contract for Community Services for patients living in the southern area of Sefton Place, which commenced on 1st June 2022.

The Community Service delivers local, accessible services such as district nursing, therapies, phlebotomy, podiatry, treatment room care.

The two-year contract is a modification of the original contract that was awarded with a contract start date of 1st June 2017 and contract end date of 31st May 2022. The original contract was valued at £25 million per annum.

The additional contract is valued at £25 million per year and the second year may be subject to an annual inflationary uplift which may be applied in line with usual contracting arrangements.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Quality / Weighting: 100

Cost criterion - Name: Price / Weighting: 0

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: 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

  • New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services

Explanation:

This Contract Award Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It is for clinical 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’). 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.

Midlands and Lancashire CSU is publishing this Contract Award Notice to confirm the award of a contract modification and extension for Community Services to Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust by NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Commissioning Board (ICB ) for the southern area of Sefton. The contract award was agreed by South Sefton CCG governing body in March 2022 (prior to the transformation to NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB).

Merseycare provide community services across the ICB area and awarding this short-term contract as an interim measure will allow time and opportunity to work across the new Integrated Care System (ICS) to align contracts and make future commissioning decisions.

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

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

31 March 2022

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 1

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 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 1PJ

Telephone

+44 1514730303

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKD71 - East Merseyside
Internet address

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: £50,000,000

Total value of the contract/lot: £50,000,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

This Contract Award Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It is for clinical 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’). 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.

Midlands and Lancashire CSU is publishing this Contract Award Notice to confirm the award of a contract modification and extension for Community Services to Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust by NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Commissioning Board (ICB ) for the southern area of Sefton. The contract award was agreed by South Sefton CCG governing body in March 2022 (prior to the transformation to NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB).

Merseycare provide community services across the ICB area and awarding this short-term contract as an interim measure will allow time and opportunity to work across the new Integrated Care System (ICS) to align contracts and make future commissioning decisions.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (hosted by NHS England)

120 Grove Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 4LX

Email

mlcsu.procurement@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

https://www.midlandsandlancashirecsu.nhs.uk

six.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (hosted by NHS England)

120 Grove Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 4LX

Email

mlcsu.procurement@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

https://www.midlandsandlancashirecsu.nhs.uk