Official UK procurement notice
Community Unit with Nursing (24 beds)
Authority: The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCommunity Unit with Nursing (24 beds)
CPV: Residential nursing care services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Provision of a community unit with nursing to support individuals on a short-term…Awarded
Provision of a community unit with nursing to support individuals on a short-term basis who either cannot remain at home but do not require consultant led acute care or who are being discharged from acute care but are not yet able to return home. The supplier will work with health and social care providers to support discharge to assess, recovery, rehabilitation and reablement care plans to facilitate independence and enable as many people to return home as is possible. Individual therapy programmes will be formulated with the individual to achieve the following objectives :<br/><br/>
- Return home at the earliest opportunity and/or;<br/>
- Increase or maintain independence, choice and control and/or;<br/>
- Instigate planned treatment and care to manage deterioration in health and wellbeing.<br/><br/>The intention is to award a contract via an existing provider under Direct Award Process C of the Provider Selection Regime.<br/><br/>The lifetime value of the contract is £1,920,672.00.<br/><br/>The contract is intended to start from 1st April 2026.
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
- 12 Mar 2026, 17:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Mar 2026, 15:24 BST
- Authority reference
C431445- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-028809- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0668f8Find 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) Intention to Award notice. The awarding of this notice is subject to 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. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on Wednesday 25th March 2026. <br/><br/>This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Intention to Award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015<br/>do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by midnight on Wednesday 25th March 2026. Representations should be sent by email to [email protected]. This contract has not been formally awarded; this notice serves as an Intention to Award under PSR.<br/><br/>The decision maker for this award is The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Rotherham Place Intermediate Care and Reablement Strategy . The decision to award the<br/>contract has been made by examining the capacity, capability, past performance and financial feasibility of awarding to the existing provider.<br/><br/>No conflicts of interest have been identified
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
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. This contract has now been formally awarded using Direct Award Process C. The contract award dat…
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athorpe Health Care LimitedSME | £1,920,672 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 022580-2026-1 · Athorpe Health Care LimitedSME
- Signed
- 11 Mar 2026
- Value
- £1,920,672
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS EnglandReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Athorpe Health Care LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.