Official UK procurement notice
All Age Continuing Care Services (potential PSR framework)
Authority: Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPre-market engagement for a potential framework agreement to be awarded under the Provider Selection Regime for the delivery of all age continuing care services.
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Commercial Procurement Services seeks to engage with providers with a view to developing a framework agreement for the delivery of all age continuing care services under the Provider Selection Regime and Provider Selection Regime (Wales), together the PSR. Framework agreements are defined in Regulation 16 of the PSR.
All Age Continuing Care (AACC) is a collective term for services provided by the NHS to meet patients' ongoing care needs. These services include the assessment and provision of funding for the care of individuals of all ages, in order to meet these needs. The services provided under AACC include:
- Continuing Healthcare (CHC)
- Funded Nursing Care (FNC)
- Children and Young Peoples' Continuing Care (CYPCC)
- Jointly-funded individual packages of care (JF)
- Other services that provide NHS funding for patients to meet their needs once they have been discharged from hospital, for example patients requiring neurological rehabilitation after brain injury
The objective of this framework is to provide a range of services to support the assessment, delivery and review of AACC provision. The AACC services provided under this framework will support Contracting Authorities to meet targets set at a national and local level, and achieve compliance with the following national frameworks (and any future related frameworks):
- National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Care
- Young People's Continuing Care National Framework
The purpose of this pre-market engagement notice is to invite providers to help us to develop a framework agreement service specification and tender documentation.
Providers participating in this pre-market engagement are not guaranteed to receive either an Invitation to Tender (if Invitations to Tender are issued), or a place on any framework agreement which may be awarded following an Invitation to Tender.
Please email [email protected] to express interest in taking part in this pre-market engagement process. We will then be in contact to arrange the next steps.
The closing date for expressions of interest in taking part in this pre-market engagement process is Friday 31st July 2026.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Please refer to the Short Description abovePlanned
Please refer to the Short Description above. Additional information: The "Estimated date of publication of contract notice" at section II.3 of this notice is a mandatory field to allow publication of this notice.
For the purposes of this pre-market engagement process, the date indicates the window in which we will engage with providers.
There is no guarantee that a contract notice will be published, or that an invitation to tender will be issued.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “All Age Continuing Care Services (potential PSR framework)” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 3%
2–38% / 20%
4–625% / 21%
7+67% / 56%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Please refer to the Short Description aboveCPV 8510Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 75 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid3%
2–320%
4–621%
7+56%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Carehome Selection Ltd. (Trading as Xyla)Earlier contract | National Framework Agreement for All Age Continuing Care Servicesnotice published Jun 2024 | All Age Continuing Care Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| UB HealthcareEarlier contract | National Framework Agreement for All Age Continuing Care Servicesnotice published Jun 2024 | All Age Continuing Care Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Liaison Financial Services LimitedEarlier contract | National Framework Agreement for All Age Continuing Care Servicesnotice published Jun 2024 | All Age Continuing Care Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| HCRG WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS LIMITEDEarlier contract | National Framework Agreement for All Age Continuing Care Servicesnotice published Jun 2024 | All Age Continuing Care Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support UnitEarlier contract | National Framework Agreement for All Age Continuing Care Servicesnotice published Jun 2024 | All Age Continuing Care Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
61% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
61% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (61% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
National Framework Agreement for All Age Continuing Care Services — held by Carehome Selection Ltd. (Trading as Xyla) and HCRG WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED (+1 more); no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
- Authority reference
F112- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-067283- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ccf3Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
16 Jul 2026 → 31 Jul 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published100 days ago16 Jul 2026, 13:53 BST
- Tender notice expected86 days ago31 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.