(Dec 25) Transferring Care for 3 individuals with a Learning Disability and/or are autistic who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition into Nixon Street-NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB

The Invitation to Tender will be live on Monday 15th December 2025 on the Atamis Portal. The deadline for submissions will be Friday 16th January 2026 12:00pm. To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome Should Tenderers have any queries, or have problems using the portal, they should contact the Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 098 8201 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk The Atamis contract reference is C405584 'Dec 25 - C&M Transferring Care for 3 individuals into Nixon Street'. The overall maximum financial envelope for this tender is PS6,119,704.00 (for 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years), based on 2:1 support for each individual in the first year. This will be the figure used to assess the bids financially. There may be some fluctuations in the package requirements stepping down for one individual, as it's expected the support needed will reduce during the contract period. Any bid whose overall cost is higher than the overall maximum financial envelope of PS6,119,704.00 for the total 5-year contract (3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years), will be viewed as non-compliant and will take no further part in the procurement exercise. In addition, any bid whose annual maximum financial values are higher than the maximum financial values for each year shown below, will also be viewed as non-compliant and will take no further part in the procurement exercise. This will be done during the evaluation of the Pass / Fail criteria stage (please see procurement document Annex 7 Evaluation Model, section 3.10(b) for details). The maximum annual financial values are as below: Year 1 - PS1,653,524.00 Year 2 - PS1,116,545.00 Year 3 - PS1,116,545.00 Year 4 - PS1,116,545.00 Year 5 - PS1,116,545.00. There will need to be flexibility regarding the packages should there be a change in the clinical need for one or more of the package, these changes will be based on the individual's needs and matched to the level of staffing required to support these needs as contained in the Annex 13 Tiered Rates document provided with the tender documents. The cost analysis will be based on the lowest overall price submitted for the maximum financial value (under PS6,119,704.00 for the total 5-year contract (3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years). The 5 year total will be evaluated. If additional care is required, then this will be paid at the additional rates identified in Annex 13 Tiered Rates. The questionnaires will be located within the requirements. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process. The ICB has evaluated this service and considers it to be a mixed procurement, in line with Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulation 3, with the main benefits of the overall health service placing this key service under Provider Selection Regime for the arrangement of Healthcare services where: the main subject matter of the contract is in-scope healthcare services; and the relevant authority is of the view that the out of scope goods or services could not reasonably be supplied under a separate contract (that is, where procuring goods or services separately would likely prevent the relevant authority from meeting its duty to act in accordance with the procurement principles). Additional information: This procurement is being carried out in line with the requirements for Health Services and mixed procurements which fall under Regulation 3 and 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 is being run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation available via https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome, and in this Find a Tender contract notice advertisement. The only selection for type of Procedure is "Open" and the Contracting Authority wishes to clarify that this is a competitive procedure under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.