Official UK procurement notice
Plymouth Home Based Intermediate Care (HBIC) - Personal Care, Rehabilitation & Reablement (Managed Service)
Authority: NHS Devon Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Devon is seeking to procure a managed Pathway 1 home-based intermediate care support service for Plymouth - to fully manage provision to support circa 60-80 individuals at any one time on our Intermediate Care pathway in the community following a period of acute/medical intervention.
The service will deliver 180 direct care hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year
This service will:
- Promote faster recovery from illness
- Prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions and premature admissions to long-term care
- Support timely discharge from hospital
- Maximise independent living.
The service focusses on personal care and rehab and reablement interventions, which will be provided to the person to help them rehabilitate, re-able and recover as much as possible from the event that led to their acute inpatient/virtual ward stay (or to prevent a hospital admission) and maximise their independence, delivered in their own home. The optimum average length of stay on the service will be 17 days.
CPV: Community health services · Rehabilitation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1A full specification is available on request from the ICB email address provided in…Planned
A full specification is available on request from the ICB email address provided in this notice.
NHS Devon has a requirement for a fully CQC compliant service, with a minimum rating of good, to fully manage provision to support circa 60-80 individuals at any one time on our Intermediate Care pathway in the community following a period of acute/medical intervention. This service will be on a block basis through a set number of hours of delivery and reimbursed at a fixed hourly rate to encompass all costs. Due to operational demand, this service provision will need to remain flexible in response to system needs and may therefore need to be increased against the 60-80 baseline.
The service is designed to support people following:
- Acute hospital stay (step down)
- A bedded Intermediate Care pathway (step-down)
- Deterioration in the community to prevent hospital admission (step up)
Intermediate Care Pathway 1 personal care, rehab and reablement, will be short-term, time-restricted, supporting a goal-based period of care that calls on a mixture of health and social care assessments and interventions to support people to maximise their potential to live as independently as possible by recovering or continuing to improve skills because of those interventions.
The service will operate on a 7-day basis (including bank holidays) between the core operating hours of 7am and 11pm and accepting referrals during this time. The service operates 24/7 'on call' and 'out of hours' cover.
This service will include but is not limited to: people living with frailty, mild cognitive impairment, dementia or delirium, palliative and end of life care needs, mental health conditions, learning disabilities, autism, obesity (including bariatric patients), younger adults, and people living in an unsafe environment, experiencing homelessness, or at risk of homelessness.
The objectives of the service are:
- Enable same day discharge or admission once referral criteria are met
- Embed rehab and reablement principles throughout delivery
- Deliver personalised, strength based goal planning
- Support flow across acute, community, and home settings
- Reduce acute length of stay and re admissions
The service will ensure oversight from registered therapists and nurses to provide specialist and bespoke interventions and manage complexity, with protocols in place for delegation, accountability and supervision.
The service will maximise the use of skilled support workers and other staff and volunteers with direction, advice and oversight from registered therapists and nurses.
The provider will work in full collaboration with the Livewell Southwest DTA Team to support the person to achieve their rehab and reablement goals.
Referrals into the Home Based Intermediate Care (HBIC) will be made via:
- The Integrated Hospital Discharge Team
- Livewell Southwest DTA Team
- CCRT / UCR
- or other agreed system partners as determined by the Commissioner
The provider will
- Accept referrals 7 days per week including weekends and Bank Holidays
- Respond to all referrals within 2 hours (08:00-16:00, with an on-call arrangement to consider urgent referrals, 7 days/week)
- Work flexibly to support same day admission or discharge wherever possible.
- Daily slot based model to support hospital flow (number of daily slots and any variation to be agreed with commissioner in advance)
- Only decline referrals where the person's needs fall outside the scope of this specification
- The Provider must not introduce additional access thresholds or eligibility criteria beyond those set out in the specification. Additional information: This service is seen as an essential element in the delivery of rehab and reablement so will need to work collaboratively with other teams across health and social care including (but not limited to):
- Livewell Southwest Discharge to Assess (DTA) Team
- Acute and Community Discharge Teams
- Urgent Community Response / CCRT
- GPs and District Nursing
- Adult Social Care Brokerage
- Voluntary and Community Sector system partners
- Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (once established)
Integration with local services and delivering social value locally are deemed central to this procurement and, as such, the ICB will only be considering providers with an existing CQC registered base in Plymouth and who are already commissioned to deliver domiciliary care by Plymouth City Council
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Devon Integrated Care Board buys Social services (CPV 8532), and who usually turns up
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1 bid7% / 33%
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Lot #1A full specification is available on request from the ICB email address provided in…CPV 8532Estimate not published
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1 bid33%
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Jun 2026, 17:12 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Jun 2026, 11:07 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-061117- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bf7fFind a Tender
Publisher note: The intention of NHS Devon is to award this contract using the Most Suitable Provider process. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach 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 Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award. As indicated above, there is a particular focus in this procurement on local integration which, along with quality, will hold the highest weighting in identifying the most suitable provider. A number of basic qualifying criteria have been set and so the ICB asks that expressions of interest are only submitted by providers able to satisfy the following: - CQC rating of 'Good' or above - CQC Registered office within Plymouth - Commissioned to deliver domiciliary care within Plymouth - Previous experience delivering reablement care plans as part of hospital discharge - Have a published Net Zero commitment (or can confirm timeframe for publication) - No Mandatory exclusion grounds present - Appropriate insurance (employer's liability, public liability, professional indemnity) - Appropriate data protection compliance (or confirm willingness to obtain) - Confirm willing to complete a Modern Slavery Risk Assessment within 3 months of contract award - Ability to staff within required mobilisation period - Autumn 2026 - Ability to interface with partners - receive referrals & share information securely - Confirm able to deliver the full specification without negative impact on existing provision. A full specification and template to submit confirmations of key information are available from [email protected]. Please ensure you have expressed an interest via this email address (including return of the completed information template) prior to 9am on 14/07/2026 as evaluation will begin after this date and new submissions will not be able to be considered. Please quote QJK_MSP_P1 Plymouth_June 26 as the reference for any emails. The ICB reserves the right to change its approach to this procurement should information arise during this period to suggest that MSP is no longer appropriate.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Jun 2026 → 7 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published114 days ago30 Jun 2026, 11:07 BST
- Tender notice expected46 days ago7 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
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| — | TextAdditional Information · II.2.14 | the ICB will only be considering providers with an existing CQC registered base in Plymouth and who are already commissioned to deliver domiciliary care by Plymouth City Council | For clarity - the ICB will only be considering providers who hold a contract with Plymouth City Council (as part of the integrated commissioning arrangements with the ICB) for the delivery of CQC Regulated Personal Care |
1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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