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Published 23 Jan 2025, 12:54 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Medical Cover for Brookfield Intermediate Care Centre in St Helens

Official notice

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

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£390,912≈ £98k / year
Submissions closed 12 Feb 2025
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Jun 2029 · extension options published · starts 1 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire is working on behalf of Cheshire & Merseyside ICB who wish to procure a Medical Cover Service for the Brookfield Centre, St Helens.

The Brookfield Centre provides Intermediate Care Provision in St Helens. In St Helens Place, the ICB uses the Kings Fund definition of Intermediate Care as its working definition, which is: "A short-term intervention to preserve the independence of people who might otherwise face unnecessarily prolonged hospital stays or inappropriate admissions to hospital or residential care. The care is person centred, focused on rehabilitation, and delivered by a combination of professionals."

There are 30 beds at Brookfield, and they are classed as Level 3 community beds and can be used for step up or step down provision. Brookfield is registered with CQC as a residential care home and managed by St Helens Local Authority with therapy and nursing in reach from a Community NHS Provider. Brookfield is not a commissioned Health service. Brookfield delivers bed-based support and reablement for individuals who are medically optimised / clinically suitable to be cared for in a residential home setting with their medical needs met by primary care as if they were in their own home.

The contract that is to be awarded is for the medical cover of the individuals who are residing at the Brookfield Centre in St Helens.

CPV: Health services · Medical practice services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1NHS Midlands and Lancashire is working on behalf of Cheshire & Merseyside ICB who wish…Renewal 4 yrsPublished value£390,912

NHS Midlands and Lancashire is working on behalf of Cheshire & Merseyside ICB who wish to procure a Medical Cover Service for the Brookfield Centre, St Helens.

The contract that is to be awarded is for the medical cover of the individuals who are residing at the Brookfield Centre in St Helens. The aim of the clinical service is to provide an enhanced proactive and responsive model of clinical cover to the 30 users of Brookfield during the in-hours period of 8am - 6:30pm from Monday to Friday. The service does not have to be provided by a GP but access to a GP is essential to enable nurses to escalate concerns and receive clinical supervision.

The contract is to be awarded for a start date of 1st July 2025 for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 1-year period. The value of the contract is £97,728 per annum with a total of £390,912 over the total 4-year period.

Contract Award Criteria is as follows:

Evaluation Process

Evaluation of submitted bids will be managed in two tiers:

Tier 1: Due Diligence Questionnaire and Pricing - (pass/fail). A provider will only be taken through to evaluation of their offer if they successfully pass all Due Diligence and Pricing questions.

Tier 2: Evaluation using the key criteria as detailed in Section II.2.5.

Contract period: 1 Jul 2025 – 30 Jun 2029 (4 yrs)
Delivery: North West · Brookfield Centre, Park Road, St Helens, Merseyside, WA9 1HE
Extensions: The contract is for an initial 3-year period with the option to extend it for a further 1-year period.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 70%Social value: 10%Environmental: 20%
Published sub-criteria (4)
  • Quality and Innovation: 55%
  • Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice: 15%
  • Social Value: 10%
  • Integration, collaboration and service sustainability: 20%
Published award criteria (6)
  • Quality and Innovation: 55%
  • Value: Pass/Fail
  • Integration, collaboration and service sustainability: 20%
  • Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice: 15%
  • Social Value: 10%
  • Price: Pass/Fail
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    The Selection criteria are as stated in the procurement documents.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Closed
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
23 Jan 2025, 12:54 GMT
Last source update
23 Jan 2025, 13:00 GMT
Award evaluation window
7 Feb 2025 – …
Authority reference
WHISP-336
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-002367
Classification (CPV)
Health servicesMedical practice services
Delivery area
North West (UKD71)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04d5b5 Find a Tender

Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) contract 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 do not apply to this award. This procurement is being carried out in line with the requirements which fall under Regulation 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services is being run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation available via https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome, and in this Find a Tender contract notice advertisement. The only selection for type of Procedure is "Open" and the Contracting Authority wishes to clarify that this is a competitive procedure under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Atamis legacy domain (health-family.force.com) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Legacy Salesforce domain still used in notices — use the current Atamis portal · this portal address is a legacy domain; the operator has migrated
Submission deadline
12 Feb 2025, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
7 Feb 2025, 13:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

23 Jan 2025 → 1 Jul 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Notice published
    23 Jan 2025, 13:00 GMT
  2. Bids opened
    7 Feb 2025, 13:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadline
    12 Feb 2025, 12:00 GMT
  4. Contract starts
    1 Jul 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Deadline moved to 12 Feb 2025, 12:00 GMT
    23 Jan 2025, 13:00 GMT
    +5 days · was 7 Feb 2025, 12:00 GMT
Published amendments (2 · 2 deadline changes)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineIV.2.27 Feb 202512 Feb 2025+5 d
—DeadlineIV.2.27 Feb 202512 Feb 2025+5 d

2 amendments published without a description.

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth GB-NHS: QYG No 1 Lakeside, 920 Centre Park, Warrington, North West, WA1 1QYContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Official documents & specifications (4)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria
  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria
  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria