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# Acute high dependency and PICU, In area acute beds, and specialist placement beds

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/acute-high-dependency-and-picu-in-area-acute-beds-and-specialist-placement-beds-ocds-h6vhtk-03ec98). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: "Acute high dependency and PICU, In area acute beds, and specialist placement beds". Published status: active. Framework Ceiling: £20,000,000. 3 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.delta-esourcing.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/norfolk-and-suffolk-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rmy)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £20,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 April 2024 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 3
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKH, UKH1
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/acute-high-dependency-and-picu-in-area-acute-beds-and-specialist-placement-beds-ocds-h6vhtk-03ec98#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03ec98`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/acute-high-dependency-and-picu-in-area-acute-beds-and-specialist-placement-beds-ocds-h6vhtk-03ec98#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [delta-esourcing.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delta-esourcing.com%2Frespond%2FPKU5NQ3HM7)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/acute-high-dependency-and-picu-in-area-acute-beds-and-specialist-placement-beds-ocds-h6vhtk-03ec98#participate

## Description
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) wishes to create a bespoke, specialist framework for Acute high dependency and PICU, In area acute beds, and specialist placement beds.
The framework seeks suppliers that are able to provide additional capacity with the intent to appoint one, or multiple, qualified and capable suppliers to a new framework agreement. The aims of these services is to provide high quality, holistic care for service users in the most acute and vulnerable state of their illness. This will be provided in collaboration with service users, carers, and statutory and non-statutory organisations to ensure that any admissions and inpatient episodes are timely and appropriate. These services are to made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round.
As outlined in the original procurement process, the Trust wish to open the framework for a secondary round of bidding - to enable access to more suitably qualified and capable providers.

## Lots (3)
### Lot 1: Acute High Dependency and PICU
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Estimated Value:** £20,000,000
- **Description:** A service for those who present with an acute mental illness and who cannot be treated in their own homes or in community settings and will have been assessed as at significant risk of an event happening to themselves or others. Often requiring conti...

### Lot 2: In Area Acute
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** A service for those who present with an acute mental illness and who cannot be treated in their own homes or in community settings and will have been assessed as at significant risk of an event happening to themselves or others. Often requiring conti...

### Lot 3: Specialist Placements
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 85100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** The aims of these services is to provide high quality, holistic care for service users when it has been identified that they have needs above and beyond commissioned services within NSFT. This will be provided in collaboration with service users, car...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F008808-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-03-19T12:05:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T00:35:10.797Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03ec98