NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB - Intermediate Care Beds

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board who are the Contracting Authority for this opportunity.

The Authority is looking for providers to deliver an Intermediate Care Beds Service to patients in the Southport & Formby area of Sefton Place. The Authority is looking to potentially commission up to 35 beds to be located in the Southport & Formby area of Sefton Place and ideally on one site. The ICB has a financial envelope of £1295 per bed per week. The potential contract will be valued at approximately £2,200,000 per year; and the contract duration will be for 3 years from 24 January 2024 with the potential to extend for a further two year period. Therefore a potential contract value of £11,000,000 over the full life of the contract including extensions.

Details of the DPS , together with full instructions are provided in the indicative tender documents available to download from http://demand.sproc.net. Interested parties must register their organisation and then download the indicative tender documents from the supplier contract management system https://www.sproc.net

Additional information: This contract is for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations.

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. This is not a call for tenders and the Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept any tender received and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for tenders should as consider necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received during this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.