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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 Contract\nRegulations 2015 or it's replacement the Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award. The Award decision makers for this procurement were the Associate Directorate of Acute & Urgent Care 20th March 2025. There were no conflicts of interest declared.", "initiationType": "tender", "tender": { "id": "LD/RB03", "legalBasis": { "id": "32014L0024", "scheme": "CELEX" }, "title": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Out of Area Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Placement Reference number LD/RB02 II.1.2)", "status": "complete", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85111500", "description": "Psychiatric hospital services" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "description": "This Contract award notice is placed under the Healthcare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Regulation 8 for Direct Award Process B, where the ICB is\nawarding this contract having conducted spot purchasing analysis and concluded that this is the only available option.\nThe ICB has a choice of providers, and is not seeking to restrict the number of providers.\nThe Service is for specialised Psychiatric care for a named patient. Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) are specialist wards that provide inpatient mental health care, assessment and\ncomprehensive treatment to individuals who are experiencing the most acutely disturbed phase of a serious mental disorder. The Contract has been awarded following direct award\nprocess B, at £989.00 per day for a nominal period of 4 weeks as the exact duration is unknown. The patient would be reviewed daily mon-fri and would be re-patriated where\nclinically appropriate.\nEstimated total cost is £27,692. From 20th March 2025 to not known. The Trust had a spot purchasing arrangement with this provider in the past, and this is a continuation of that\nservice for a new placement, now coming directly through the Trust whereas previously it sat under the ICB. The contract is new as the Trust are placing the contract directly but the\narrangements have been previously in place under spot purchasing via the ICB.", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "This Contract award notice is placed under the Healthcare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Regulation 8 for Direct Award Process B where the ICB is\nawarding this contract having conducted spot purchasing analysis and concluded that this is the only available option.\nThe ICB has a choice of providers, and is not seeking to restrict the number of providers.\nThe Service is for specialised Psychiatric care for a named patient. Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) are specialist wards that provide inpatient mental health care, assessment and\ncomprehensive treatment to individuals who are experiencing the most acutely disturbed phase of a serious mental disorder. The Contract has been awarded following direct award process B, at £989.00 per day for a nominal period of 4 weeks as the exact duration is unknown. The patient would be reviewed daily mon-fri and would be re-patriated where clinically appropriate.\nEstimated total cost is £27,692. From 20th March 2025 to not known. The Trust had a spot purchasing arrangement with this provider in the past, and this is a continuation of that\nservice for a new placement, now coming directly through the Trust whereas previously it sat under the ICB. The contract is new as the Trust are placing the contract directly but the\narrangements have been previously in place under spot purchasing via the ICB.", "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "name": "Price and availability", "type": "cost", "description": "100" } ] }, "hasOptions": true, "options": { "description": "The placement will be reviewed weekly, and extended subject to the ongoing needs of the patient." }, "status": "cancelled" } ], "items": [ { "id": "1", "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKG31" } ], "deliveryLocation": { "description": "Barnt Green, Lickey, Birmingham." }, "relatedLot": "1" } ], "procurementMethod": "limited", "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition", "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL", "id": "D_TECHNICAL", "description": "The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons" } ], "procurementMethodRationale": "The service is Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) inpatient beds. 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This is highly specialised psychiatric services with limited availability nationally.\nAll known providers were contacted to ascertain whether they could provide the required service, only this supplier responded in the required timeframe." }, "awards": [ { "id": "011235-2025-LD/RB03-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Out of Area Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Placement", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-141724", "name": "Priory Barnt Green" } ] } ], "parties": [ { "name": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust", "id": "GB-FTS-141723", "identifier": { "legalName": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust", "noIdentifierRationale": "notOnAnyRegister" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Lawton House, Bellringer Road", "locality": "Trentham", "region": "UKG", "postalCode": "ST4 8HH", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "contactPoint": { "name": "Geraldine Hickman", "telephone": "+44 8000328728", "email": "geraldine.hickman@nhs.net" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.combined.nhs.uk/contact/contact-us/", "classifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE", "id": "BODY_PUBLIC", "description": "Body governed by public law" }, { "scheme": "COFOG", "id": "07", "description": "Health" } ] } }, { "name": "Priory Barnt Green", "id": "GB-FTS-141724", "identifier": { "legalName": "Priory Barnt Green", "noIdentifierRationale": "notOnAnyRegister" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Warren Lane, Barnt Green", "locality": "Birmingham", "region": "UKG31", "postalCode": "B45 8ER", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "name": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust", "id": "GB-FTS-21552", "identifier": { "legalName": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Lawton House, Bellringer Road", "locality": "Trentham", "postalCode": "ST4 8HH", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "reviewBody" ] } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-FTS-141723", "name": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust" }, "contracts": [ { "id": "011235-2025-LD/RB03-1", "awardID": "011235-2025-LD/RB03-1", "title": "North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Out of Area Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Placement", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 27692.00, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2025-03-20T00:00:00Z" } ], "bids": { "statistics": [ { "id": "2", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 1 } ] }, "language": "en" } ] }