Awarded· 13 Mar 2025
Community services - Hertfordshire & West Essex
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board · Welwyn Hatfield, East
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded Community services - Hertfordshire & West Essex. It is a contract for other health and social care in Welwyn Hatfield.
Source: Find a Tender, published 9 Apr 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 17:11
View notice2025
Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 15:23
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About this tender
In brief
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded Community services - Hertfordshire & West Essex. It is a contract for other health and social care in Welwyn Hatfield. The contract went to Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. It was awarded on 13 March 2025.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 9 April 2025. The notice number is 014085-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04ed07.
Summary of the contracting process
The NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded a contract for community services in Hertfordshire and West Essex under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) regulations. The contract, which falls under the health services category, will commence on 1st April 2025 and run until 31st March 2026, with an option for a one-year extension until 31st March 2027.
The contract, valued at up to £97,400,000 per annum, was awarded through a direct award process (Process C) without prior publication of a call for competition. The contract award date was 9th April 2025, following a standstill period from 13th March 2025 to 25th March 2025.
The procurement process, classified as a limited procurement method, supports the strategic goals of the Integrated Care Board to provide high-quality health services in the UKH23 region. Establishing a role in this provision could improve a company's market position and foster long-term relationships with the NHS and regional health authorities.
The notice in full
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.
The contract award date is 9th April 2025, and the standstill period took place between 13th March 2025 and 25th March 2025. The business case including the recommendation to award the contract under Provider Selection Regime Process C was approved by the ICB's Strategic Finance & Commissioning Committee on 9/1/25 and one potential conflict of interest was noted and mitigated.
The contract will be for one year from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, with an optional one year extension until 31st March 2027. The maximum value of the new contract is PS97,400,000 per annum. Should the optional extension be used, the maximum contract value for the 2-year period is PS194,800,000.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
This notice is to inform the market of NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board's intention to award this contract following a direct award process C to its incumbent supplier, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, to continue to deliver Community Services within Hertfordshire and West Essex.
The contract which will commence on 1st April 2025 and will end on 31st March 2026 with the option to extend for a further year to 31st March 2027.
Elements to be provided by the service are likely to include:
Adult Speech and Language
Adult Occupational Therapy
Adult Bladder and Bowel
Dental
Diabetes
Discharge Home to Assess
Virtual Ward
Early Supported Discharge
Neuro
Frailty Services
Integrated Care Teams
Intermediate Care Beds
Looked After Children
Leg Ulcer
Lymphoedema
Nutrition and Dietetics
MSK
Pain Management
Podiatry
Pulmonary Rehab
Respiratory
Anti-coagulation
Skin health
Phlebotomy
Minor Injury Unit
Chronic Fatigue
Children's Audiology
Children's Eye Service
Children's Physiotherapy
Community Paediatrics
Children's Occupational Therapy
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- 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
- 014085-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ed07
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Town
- St Albans
- Postcode
- AL8 6JL
- Electoral ward
- Handside
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Delivery area
- Hertfordshire CC
- Region
- East
- Sub-region
- North and East Hertfordshire
- Area
- Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Procurement Team
- Address
- Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6JL · East · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Community services - Hertfordshire & West Essex
Who won the Community services - Hertfordshire & West Essex contract?
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust on 13 March 2025.
Who is the buyer for Community services - Hertfordshire & West Essex?
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Welwyn Hatfield, East. The named contact is Procurement Team.
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