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title: "Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement"
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# Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/specialist-support-with-feeding-plan-to-enable-hospital-discharge-placement-ocds-h6vhtk-05e473). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board: "Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement". 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:** UKD7
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £474,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05e473`

## 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/specialist-support-with-feeding-plan-to-enable-hospital-discharge-placement-ocds-h6vhtk-05e473#tl-md)

## Description
This urgent contract award relates to the specific, complex support required to enable feeding for a patient currently within a local acute hospital upon discharge to  local placement arrangements within a community setting. The patient is currently subject to Court of Protection oversight and frequent court rulings.  The support required includes administering feeds twice per day as part of a structured feeding plan under clinical supervision using the least restrictive methods of restraint.

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

- **Description:** NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB - Liverpool Place has awarded this contract on the grounds of urgency for the provision of specific, complex support required to enable feeding for a patient currently within a local acute hospital upon discharge to  loc...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement (active)
  - Award id: `075251-2025-25-26-QYG-99A-VNNQL-Con-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Independent Clinical Services Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-142543`
  - Value: £474,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement (active)
  - Signed Value: £474,000
  - Signed Date: 11/09/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F075251-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-19T14:02:10.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T22:41:07.209Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05e473