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# Out of Hours GP Services across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/out-of-hours-gp-services-across-cheshire-and-merseyside-icb-ocds-h6vhtk-068bae). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board: "Out of Hours GP Services across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-cheshire-and-merseyside-integrated-care-board-nhs-qyg)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD6, UKD7
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £13,810,371 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-068bae`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/out-of-hours-gp-services-across-cheshire-and-merseyside-icb-ocds-h6vhtk-068bae#tl-md)

## Description
This service provides evidence based urgent primary care which optimises health and wellbeing of the population and reduces the impact of ill health during the out of hours period, avoiding where possible the need for acute care. The service also operates as part of and contribute to the wider virtual Clinical Assessment Service (CAS), supporting both 111 and 999 activity.
Primary Care 24 delivers of a safe, accessible and equitable out of hours (6.30pm - 8am) GP service, including the receipt of calls from NHS 111, GP telephone consultation and where appropriate provides a medical/clinical face-to-face consultation either in the patients' place of residence or a primary care setting. This service provides a service to patients with urgent medical needs that cannot wait until their GP practice reopens. 
This service is delivered within 6 of the 9 ICB "Places" within Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board. (Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, Halton, Warrington, St Helens (a select number of practices)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Description:** NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB has awarded a 5+2 year contract via Direct Award A to the incumbent provider for GP out of hours services  across Cheshire and Merseyside,  The contract commenced on 1st April 2026 and will expire on the 31st March 203...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Out of Hours GP Services across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB (active)
  - Award id: `038061-2026-26-27-QYG-99A-PC24-OOH-CONv1-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Primary Care 24 (PC24)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-NHS-10991987`
  - Value: £13,810,371 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Out of Hours GP Services across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB (active)
  - Signed Value: £13,810,371
  - Signed Date: 20/10/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F038061-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-04-27T12:59:47.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T23:01:32.534Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-068bae