Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-12-11
Buyer: NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services
Estimated value: 6300000 GBP
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group has awarded a prime provider contract to deliver care and clinical leadership across its intermediate care system. This consists of:
— providing clinical oversight and care services to intermediate care acuity individuals within their own homes or within care homes, where the patient’s own GP is unable to provide the enhanced level of care, preventing hospital admission,
— in addition, providing clinical oversight and care services to individuals within the existing intermediate care bed infrastructure, to support hospital discharges and reduce delayed transfers of care.
A prime provider contract to deliver care and clinical leadership across its intermediate care system. This consists of:
— providing clinical oversight and care services to intermediate care acuity individuals within their own homes or within care homes, where the patient’s own GP is unable to provide the enhanced level of care, preventing hospital admission,
— in addition, providing clinical oversight and care services to individuals within the existing intermediate care bed infrastructure, to support hospital discharges and reduce delayed transfers of care.
A named medical director or medical consultant will hold clinical responsibility and accountability for all patients under the care of the service, regardless of where they reside. The service provider will be held accountable for bed utilisation occupancy and patient flow key performance indicators across the health economy to ensure a fully integrated approach is adopted and pro-actively managed.
As clinical oversight and care provision is to be delivered across a number of locations and in partnership with a number of care providers:
— physical health and mental health — it is essential that an integrated approach is adopted to ensure that all available capacity is being utilised and patient flow is optimised.
Care will be provided to any patient registered with a GP Practice in West Cheshire Clinical commissioning group boundary that has been referred via:
— single point of access from community matrons, clinical team leaders, paramedics and general practitioners from the community,
Appropriate clinical oversight of the provision of intermediate care must be provided in all appropriate setting including:
Contract is for 24 months, with the option of extending up to 24 months. The advertised value in section II.2.7) is for the full period, if the extended period is taken.
A light touch regime procurement process was advertised under a PIN (2018/S 064-142491) on the 31.3.2018. Only one provider satisfied the minimum conditions to bid as detailed within the Standard Questionnaire.
The outcome was negotiated and proposed contract award was therefore announced within VEAT (2018/S 185-418788) published on the 26.9.2019. There were no challengers to the VEAT.


Winner: Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Award value: 6300000
Number of bids: 1