NHSE1050 - Host Organisation - North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Contract No C345988

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a care system support organisation working for and on behalf of NHS England - North West Specialised Commissioning and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board - (Lead ICB), NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (the Relevant Authorities),who undertook a competition to commission a Host Organisation - to deliver and manage the North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract 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 did not apply to this award.

The contract term was for a period of 5 years. The Host Organisation contract was to be awarded by July 2025, and full mobilisation of the service would have been confirmed in line with the awarded Host Organisation's mobilisation plan. This was anticipated to be between July 2025 and 01 April 2026, not withstanding any supply issues to mobilise the service. The five-year contract will commence from full mobilisation of the service.

The closing time and date for submission of competition response was 12:00 Noon on 09 May 2025.

NECS did utilise an electronic tendering tool to manage the competition and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there was no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS including response submissions, was conducted via the Atamis portal at

health-family.force.com/Welcome ↗

It is free to register on the portal and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection.

Should providers have experienced any queries, or were having problems registering on the portal; they were advised to contact the Atamis helpdesk via:

[email protected] or phone number 0800 9956035

The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 08.00 am - 06.00 pm.

Competition documentation was available on the e-tendering site from 12:00 Noon on 10 April 2025.

Potential Providers were advised to look for NHSE1050 - North West Adult Critical Care Transfer Service Contract No C345988.

The Host Organisation was required to provide all the requirements within the annual financial threshold of 5.66 million GBP and the successful Host Organisation should be an NHS Acute Trust who is CQC registered for the provision of General Adult Critical Care Services. Please note after award and before the commencement date the successful provider was required to occupy and deliver the service from a base located within the North West.