Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board
QE1
County Hall
Preston
PR1 8XB
UK
E-mail: lsicb.procurement@nhs.net
NUTS: UKD
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.lancashireandsouthcumbria.icb.nhs.uk
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
West Lancashire Community Services - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB (October 25)
Reference number: WHISP 410
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short 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.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
54 985 915.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD47
Main site or place of performance:
West Lancashire
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
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.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) 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.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2025/S 000-068260
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
17/02/2026
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 8
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
NHS Mersey & West Lancashire NHS Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
RBN
Prescot
UK
NUTS: UKD7
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
NHS Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
RBN
Prescot
UK
NUTS: UKD7
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 54 985 915.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
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.
For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.
The 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
midnight.
This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR.
Representations should be sent to lscicb.procurement@nhs.net.
The decision to award the contract was approved by the ICB's Commissioning Resource Group (CRG) followed by Executive approval.
No conflicts of interest were declared by any individuals making the decision.
Bidders who submitted a bid over the maximum contract value, would not achieve the score of a pass.
Bids which achieved a pass in the Basic Selection stage, were to be assessed for the below scored questions, in the 5 Key Criteria Stage:
- Quality & Innovation - 30%
- Value - 30.00%
- Integration, Collaboration, Service Sustainability - 20.00%
- Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, Facilitating Choice - 10.00%
- Social Value - 10.00%
The 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.
Following 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.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB
Town Hall
Preston
PR1 8XB
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/02/2026