NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System - External Audit Services

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System are seeking supplier engagement for their procurement of External Audit services.

Provider collaboratives are partnerships that bring together multiple NHS trusts (providers of NHS services including hospitals and mental health services) to work together at scale, and the ICS is seeking Suppliers who can aid their objectives including sharing best practice, increasing standardisation, reducing costs and reducing variation.

Suppliers should contact sinead.joseph@htepg.com to register their interest. A survey (electronic questionnaire) will be provided for the supplier to complete as required by the ICS. Clarification meetings may be held with Suppliers to clarify any of their responses.

The Contracting Authorities that this exercise is in relation to is listed below. Please note that these Contracting Authorities may change:

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust East Cheshire NHS Trust

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Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The initial intention and scope of this PIN is for 4-5 NHS Trusts within the ICS to obtain external audit services, however this is subject to change.

These include the below:

• Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Surveys must be completed by 24th January 2025 at 12 noon.

Details on the ICS services and location can be found: https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/about/nhs-cheshire-and-merseyside/

This is NOT a call for competition, no other documents are available at this stage, this notice is to seek supplier input to the market and provide details of their services in order for a strategy to be determined for the ICS. The outcome of any market research will inform their renewal options.