Awarded· 11 Sept 2025
Assisted Conception Services - Manchester
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board · Stafford, West Midlands
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board has awarded Assisted Conception Services - Manchester. It is a contract for other health and social care in Stafford.
Source: Find a Tender, published 27 Oct 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Care Fertility Group
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 11:03
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 15:15
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About this tender
In brief
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board has awarded Assisted Conception Services - Manchester. It is a contract for other health and social care in Stafford. The contract went to Care Fertility Group. It was awarded on 11 September 2025.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 27 October 2025. The notice number is 068633-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-059d06.
Summary of the contracting process
The NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB) has initiated a procurement process for Assisted Conception Services, specifically focusing on in vitro fertilisation services classified under CPV code 85111310. This process, which falls under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, employs a Direct Award C method, set to run from 1st October 2025 to 30th September 2026.
The service provision is centred in Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and involves CARE Fertility Group Limited as the awarded supplier. The procurement is in the award stage, as confirmed on 1st October 2025, with a contract value set at £684,630.00, reflecting a zero-based activity contract paid per locally agreed price per activity.
Large-scale enterprises like CARE Fertility Group Limited, which are equipped with the necessary infrastructure and expertise in the fertility sector, are well-positioned to thrive in such procurement environments.
The notice in full
Intention to Award Notice for Direct Award C Process for the Provision of Assisted Conception Services for Staffordshire and Stoke - on - Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB). NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) are acting on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB).
The ICB intends to follow the Direct Award C process in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) 2023 for the Provision of Assisted Conception Services with CPV code 85111310- Fertility treatment services.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
Intention to Award Notice for Direct Award C Process for the Provision of Assisted Conception Services for Staffordshire and Stoke - on - Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB). NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) are acting on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board (SSOT ICB).
The ICB intends to follow the Direct Award C process in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) 2023 for the Provision of Assisted Conception Services with CPV code 85111310-Fertility treatment services.
The Direct Award C process involves awarding a contract to provider(s) without running a competitive process, because the relevant authority (SSOTICB) confirms that the existing providers are satisfying the existing contracts and are likely to satisfy the new contracts, and the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing considerably from the existing contracts. The total value for Assisted Conception Services is PS684,630.00.
The new contracts will run from 1st October 2025 to 30th September 2026, and the estimated lifetime value of the new contract for CARE Fertility Group Limited is PS0.00. This is a zero-based activity contract, paid at a locally agreed price per activity. The unit price remains unchanged from the previous contract.
Activity during 2024/25 was valued at PS0.00
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Care Fertility Group
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Tender, Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 068633-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-059d06
- CPV code
- 85111310 - In vitro fertilisation services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Stafford
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Postcode
- ST18 0BF
- Electoral ward
- Milwich
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- Delivery area
- Stoke-on-Trent, TLG24 Staffordshire CC
- Region
- West Midlands
- Sub-region
- Staffordshire CC
- Area
- Shropshire and Staffordshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Gabriela Bussoli
- Address
- Stafford, ST18 0BF · West Midlands · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Care Fertility Group
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Assisted Conception Services - Manchester
Who won the Assisted Conception Services - Manchester contract?
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Care Fertility Group on 11 September 2025.
Who is the buyer for Assisted Conception Services - Manchester?
NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-trent Integrated Care Board, based in Stafford, West Midlands. The named contact is Gabriela Bussoli.
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