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Published 29 Apr 2025, 19:01 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Acute Secondary Care Services / Community Services/ Hospice, Palliative and End of Life Care Services across Cheshire and Merseyside

Official notice

Authority: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (Central government)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North West (UKD6)

Budget not disclosedValue not published

Awarded 19 Nov 2024no call for competition

Awarded to Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

What is being bought

Published requirement description

NHS Acute Trust Services to deliver adult services including medical care, critical care, diagnostic imaging and pathology, end of life care, cancer care, community services, outpatients, surgery and urgent and emergency care, including urgent treatment centres..

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has awarded a one year contract via Direct Award A to…Awarded

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has awarded a one year contract via Direct Award A to the main acute secondary care service provider across Merseyside. The contract commenced on 1st April 2024 and will expire on the 31st March 2025 with an estimated total annual contract value of £1,096,673,719 (includes all co-commissioners)

This contract now includes elements of service that have been delegated by NHS England.

Delivery: North West · LUHFT operates across 4 main sites based within the Liverpool City Region, and delivers services to the whole of the North West of England as well as providing some specialist services to Wales and Isle of Man. Merseyside is the majority user of the provider however services are also accessed by patients from other parts of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB, NHS Greater Manchester ICB and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB. in addition NHS England commissions a number of specialist and highly specialist services.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached

Procedure method: Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis: CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category: Services
Notice status: Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Standard
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 29 Apr 2025, 19:01 BST
Last source update: 30 Apr 2025, 09:27 BST
Authority reference: 25-26-QYG-99A-REM-CON
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-017812
Classification (CPV): Health services
Delivery area: North West (UKD6)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0509a2 Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: 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.

Publisher note: 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. On the 19th of November 2024 the Finance, Investment, Resources Committee approved this decision. One committee member has a standing declaration of interest. The decision to award was made in line with the Conflict of Interest policy.

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender

Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)

When	What	Before	After	Shift
—	TextII.2.4	The contract commenced on 1st April 2024 and will expire on the 31st March 2025 with an estimated total annual contract value of £1,096,673,719 (includes all co-commissioners).	The contract commenced on the 1st April 2025 and will expire on the 31st March 2026 with an estimated total annual contract value of £1,096,673,719 (included all co-commissioners).

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value Not summedvery large published value (£1bn+), not counted until verified; check the notice

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 1latest 19 Nov 2024

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLUHFT/CMICB NHS Standard Contract 2025-26	£1,096,673,719 †very large published value · not counted until verified, check the notice	—	Awarded

Contracts

LUHFT/CMICB NHS Standard Contract 2025-26 · Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Signed
19 Nov 2024
Value
£1,096,673,719
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth GB-NHS: QYG Lakeside 920 Centre Park Square, Warrington, North West, WA1 1QYContact name, email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSOTY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTAwarded supplierGB-NHS: REM Prescot Street, Liverpool, North West, L7 8XP

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.