Official UK procurement notice
West Lancashire Community Services - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB (October 25)
Authority: NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NHS & healthcare)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) has been acting as an agent on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) who were looking to undertake a Competitive process for the provision of the Community Services in West Lancashire.
The Authority has set out an ambition to have a world-class, community-centric health and care system, with its four place-based partnerships, or "places", at the heart of this Transformation. One of the ICB's top priorities is to transform community health services and integrated community teams, aiming to elevate health outcomes, tackle health inequalities, and keep more people thriving within their communities. By transforming community services, the Lancashire and South Cumbria system will be empowered to support people in staying well, proactively identifying those at risk of deterioration, and offering them personalised care and support.
Community health services cover a wide range of services and provide care for people from birth to the end of their life. Community health teams play a vital role in supporting people with complex health and care needs to live independently in their own home as long as possible. Lancashire and South Cumbria has four places: Lancashire, South Cumbria, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen. West Lancashire is a district area of Lancashire and is predominantly a rural district. It has a population of approximately 118,000 people and is made up of the 1960s new town of Skelmersdale, the historic market town of Ormskirk, and a number of villages situated primarily in the rural Northern Parishes.
West Lancashire Community Services are mainly adult physical health services but include paediatric podiatry services for those children who need local access to community services.
The value of the contract was £10,997,183 per annum. The total contract value over the 3 years plus potential 2-year extension was £54,985,915.00
There is a range of specifications that will form the overall contract and these include a Community Diabetes Service; a Community Stroke and Neuro Rehabilitation Service; and an Intermediate Care Therapy Service. The ICB has awarded one contract for all of these specifications.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1This notice is for an intention to award a contract, for West Lancashire Community…AwardedRenewalPublished value£54,985,915
This notice is for an intention to award a contract, for West Lancashire Community Services, under a competitive process.
The proposed new contract covers the West Lancashire locality within the Authority's area.
The ICB is committed to providing stability to the sector and a model of services is being proposed, which intends to procure services for 3 years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years. The contract is intended to start on 1st July 2026.
Contract Start Date: 1st July 2026
Contract End Date: 30th June 2031
The process was a competitive tendering process which was ran in line with the competitive tendering principles set out in the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulations which support transparent, proportionate and fair decision making, in addition
to the 5 key criteria which underpin the Regime of (i) quality and innovation; (ii) value; (iii)integration, collaboration and service sustainability, (iv) improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice; and (v) social value.
1 bidder has been selected as the highest overall scoring bidder and has been recommended as a successful bidder.
This contract will be for an existing service.
This contract will be with NHS Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The ITT went live on Friday 24th October 2025 on the Atamis portal.
The deadline for submissions was Thursday 4th December 2025.
The Atamis project reference was: C394494 "LSC West Lancashire Community Services - October25"
The questionnaires were located within the requirements.
The contract award criteria was specified in the procurement documents which included the agreed relative importance of key criteria, which bids were evaluated against. Additional information: This process was a competitive process, in accordance with regulation 11 of the provider selection regime 2023 for the award of a contract with a competition.
This ITT was made available to all Bidders who have expressed a potential interest in delivering this service in line with the requirements which fall under Regulation 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services was run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation in this ITT, and in the Find a Tender contract notice advertisement.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Price
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- Yes
- First published
- 7 Feb 2025, 17:11 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Jun 2026, 10:42 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 24 Nov 2025 – …
- Authority reference
WHISP 410- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-015813- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04dd01Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to 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 or Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by Wednesday 4th March 2026 midnight. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR. Representations should be sent to [email protected]. The decision to award the contract was approved by the ICB's Commissioning Resource Group (CRG) followed by Executive approval. No conflicts of interest were declared by any individuals making the decision. Bidders who submitted a bid over the maximum contract value, would not achieve the score of a pass. Bids which achieved a pass in the Basic Selection stage, were to be assessed for the below scored questions, in the 5 Key Criteria Stage: - Quality & Innovation - 30% - Value - 30.00% - Integration, Collaboration, Service Sustainability - 20.00% - Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, Facilitating Choice - 10.00% - Social Value - 10.00% The highest weighted key criteria was considered by the ICB to be of higher importance with the most important being quality and innovation, followed by value. Following the completed evaluation and moderation process, the Bidder having passed the pass / fail criteria and with the highest combined scores, has been named as the successful Bidder.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 24 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 360 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 24 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
Timeline
7 Mar 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 5 dates- Next notice expected7 Mar 2025
- Submission deadline334 days ago24 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened334 days ago24 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Notice published121 days ago25 Jun 2026, 10:42 BST
- Contract starts115 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Oct 2025- Published value updated to £54,985,91524 Oct 2025, 15:00 BSTwas £54,985,000
- Status changed to active24 Oct 2025, 15:00 BST
- Procurement method changed24 Oct 2025, 15:00 BST
- Deadline published: 24 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT24 Oct 2025, 15:00 BST
- Buyer details updated24 Oct 2025, 15:00 BST
- Status changed to complete20 Feb 2026, 16:02 GMT
- Buyer details updated20 Feb 2026, 16:02 GMT
Published amendments (2 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DateII.2.4 | 24 Nov 2025 | 26 Nov 2025 | +2 d |
The deadline for bids has been extended until 26th November 2025 12:00pm midday
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. This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process. The contract was signed …
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-02: 1 release · 7 Feb 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Mersey & West Lancashire NHS Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | £54,985,915 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 015813-2026-1 · NHS Mersey & West Lancashire NHS Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Signed
- 17 Feb 2026
- Value
- £54,985,915
- Period
- … – 30 Jun 2031
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board ICBContracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICBReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NHS Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria