West Lancashire Community Services - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB (October 25)

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  "description": "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.\nFor the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.\nThe 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\nmidnight.\nThis contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR.\nRepresentations should be sent to lscicb.procurement@nhs.net.\nThe decision to award the contract was approved by the ICB\u0027s Commissioning Resource Group (CRG) followed by Executive approval.\nNo conflicts of interest were declared by any individuals making the decision.\nBidders who submitted a bid over the maximum contract value, would not achieve the score of a pass.\nBids which achieved a pass in the Basic Selection stage, were to be assessed for the below scored questions, in the 5 Key Criteria Stage:\n- Quality \u0026 Innovation - 30%\n- Value - 30.00%\n- Integration, Collaboration, Service Sustainability - 20.00%\n- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, Facilitating Choice - 10.00%\n- Social Value - 10.00%\nThe 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.\nFollowing 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.",
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    "description": "NHS 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.\nThe 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\u0027s 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.\nCommunity 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.\nWest Lancashire Community Services are mainly adult physical health services but include paediatric podiatry services for those children who need local access to community services. \nThe value of the contract was \u00a310,997,183 per annum. The total contract value over the 3 years plus potential 2-year extension was \u00a354,985,915.00\nThere 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.",
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        "description": "This notice is for an intention to award a contract, for West Lancashire Community Services, under a competitive process.\nThe proposed new contract covers the West Lancashire locality within the Authority\u0027s area.\nThe 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.\nContract Start Date: 1st July 2026\nContract End Date: 30th June 2031\nThe 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\nto 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.\n1 bidder has been selected as the highest overall scoring bidder and has been recommended as a successful bidder.\nThis contract will be for an existing service.\nThis contract will be with NHS Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.\nThe ITT went live on Friday 24th October 2025  on the Atamis portal.\nThe deadline for submissions was Thursday 4th December 2025.\nThe Atamis project reference was: C394494 \"LSC West Lancashire Community Services - October25\"\nThe questionnaires were located within the requirements.\nThe 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.\nThis 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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    "title": "West Lancashire Community Services - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB (October 25)"
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