Awarded· 30 Jul 2025
Integrated community equipment services
Buckinghamshire Council · Buckinghamshire, South East
Buckinghamshire Council has awarded Integrated community equipment services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Buckinghamshire.
Source: Find a Tender, published 31 Jul 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Millbrook Healthcare
2025
Contract starts
2025
Award notice published
UK6 - Contract Award Notice · 15:59
View notice2025
Award notice published
UK5 - Transparency Notice · 11:22
View noticeNext
2028
Contract ends
3 years after it starts
About this tender
In brief
Buckinghamshire Council has awarded Integrated community equipment services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Buckinghamshire. The contract went to Millbrook Healthcare. It was awarded on 30 July 2025. The awarded value is £50,000,000. The contract runs from 30 July 2025 to 30 July 2028. It lasts 3 years.
It is run as a direct award. Find a Tender published it on 31 July 2025. The notice number is 044931-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-056a1a.
Summary of the contracting process
Buckinghamshire Council has awarded a direct contract for Integrated Community Equipment Services to Millbrook Healthcare Ltd, effective from 31st July 2025 to 30th July 2028. This decision, under the light-touch arrangement, was driven by extreme urgency due to an imminent event that could disrupt critical health and social care services in Buckinghamshire.
The procurement, classified within the health and social work services industry, took place in the UKJ13 region, involving a contract valued at GBP 60 million gross. The council is committed to ensuring continuous and high-standard delivery of these vital services, which include supplying, installing, and maintaining mobility aids and adaptations.
The notice in full
This contract is for the provision of a Buckinghamshire Integrated Community Equipment Services (BICES) through the appointment of a single provider delivering those services as required. Buckinghamshire Council (BC) and the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) have statutory duties to provide community equipment services for people with health and social care needs.
The awarded supplier shall contract with BC, as the lead commissioner, on behalf of both BC and the BOB ICB. The services will cover the supply, installation and maintenance of mobility and daily living aids, adaptations and technology enabled care. It shall also include the collection of items no longer required, recycling of equipment and robust data gathering to support contract management.
This service will ensure that residents in Buckinghamshire, who have either healthcare or social care needs (or a combination of both) are provided with high quality equipment, aids and/or adaptations that enable them to stay independent and live healthy lives for longer, and crucially to remain at home rather than requiring formal social and healthcare support.
Lots: no lot details came through with this notice. The official notice and the tender pack have the full breakdown.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- 30 Jul 2025 to 30 Jul 2028 (3 years)
- Awarded to
- Millbrook Healthcare
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Direct
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
- Awards value
- £50,000,000
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, contracts value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Complete
- Awards
- Active
Not stated in the notice: contracts.
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 044931-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-056a1a
- CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Postcode
- HP20 1UA
- Electoral ward
- Aylesbury North
- Constituency
- Aylesbury
- Region
- South East
- Sub-region
- Buckinghamshire
- Area
- Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Buckinghamshire Council
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Mrs Ann Spence
- Address
- Aylesbury, HP20 1UA · South East · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Millbrook Healthcare
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- £50,000,000
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
- Contract award notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/044931-2025
- Transparency notice on Find a Tenderfind-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/044710-2025
- Legislation.gov.uklegislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- OCDS record ocds-h6vhtk-056a1a (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h…
Questions about Integrated community equipment services
Who won the Integrated community equipment services contract?
Buckinghamshire Council awarded the contract to Millbrook Healthcare on 30 July 2025. It is due to end on 30 July 2028, which is when a re-tender would normally follow.
How much is the Integrated community equipment services contract worth?
The awarded value is £50,000,000. The contract runs from 30 July 2025 to 30 July 2028 (3 years).
Who is the buyer for Integrated community equipment services?
Buckinghamshire Council, based in Buckinghamshire, South East. The named contact is Mrs Ann Spence.
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