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

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. 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. Lot 1: 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.