Official UK procurement notice
NHS CHC Sport Purchase Beds 2025-2030
Authority: NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSNEE ICB are commissioning Care Home placements on a spot purchase basis for patients that are assessed to qualify for Continuing Healthcare funding. This includes fast track and urgent placements.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The contract is for Spot Purchase of Care Home beds for patients assessed as…Awarded
The contract is for Spot Purchase of Care Home beds for patients assessed as Continuing Healthcare eligible.
The contract is for 5 years and has been set up to follow on from the previous contract. It will start on 1st September 2025 and end 31st August 2030. This is a spot purchase contract so it is a zero value contract.
The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award B process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The provider named in this notice is being awarded the contract as the population of the named locality are being offered a choice between providers and the number of providers is not restricted by the relevant authority through provider selection.
The services which are the subject of this notice are existing services and are being awarded to an existing provider.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 27 Jan 2026, 09:51 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Jan 2026, 09:51 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-006924- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060f39Find 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.
The award was approved by SNEE ICB Executive Committee on 07/08/2023.
- No conflicts of interest, or potential conflicts of interest, were declared by any decision makes.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE HOMES LIMITEDNHS CHC Spot Purchase Beds 2025 -2030 | £1 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
NHS CHC Spot Purchase Beds 2025 -2030 · BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE HOMES LIMITED
- Signed
- 7 Aug 2023
- Value
- £1
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Barchester Healthcare Homes LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.