Awarded· 11 Sept 2025
Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board · Warrington, North West
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board has awarded Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement. It is a contract for other health and social care in Warrington.
Source: Find a Tender, published 19 Nov 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Independent Clinical Services Ltd (trading As Thornbury Community Services
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 14:02
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About this tender
In brief
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board has awarded Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement. It is a contract for other health and social care in Warrington. The contract went to Independent Clinical Services Ltd (trading As Thornbury Community Services. It was awarded on 11 September 2025. The contract value is £474,000.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 19 November 2025. The notice number is 075251-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-05e473.
Summary of the contracting process
The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board has completed an urgent procurement process for the contract titled "Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement". This service, classified under the health services category (CPV: 85100000), takes place in Liverpool Place, UKD7.
The awarded contract, valued at £474,000, commenced on 22nd September 2025 and covers a 6-month period until 21st March 2026, with an optional extension for another six months. The procurement was conducted through a limited procedure under the Provider Selection Regime, bypassing the usual Public Contracts Regulations 2015, due to the necessity of responding quickly to a critical healthcare need to support a patient's discharge from an acute hospital setting.
The involvement of Independent Clinical Services Ltd (Trading as Thornbury Community Services) highlights the suitability for large-scale organisations adept at rapidly mobilising specialised care teams to meet critical healthcare requirements promptly.
The notice in full
This urgent contract award relates to the specific, complex support required to enable feeding for a patient currently within a local acute hospital upon discharge to local placement arrangements within a community setting. The patient is currently subject to Court of Protection oversight and frequent court rulings.
The support required includes administering feeds twice per day as part of a structured feeding plan under clinical supervision using the least restrictive methods of restraint.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB - Liverpool Place has awarded this contract on the grounds of urgency for the provision of specific, complex support required to enable feeding for a patient currently within a local acute hospital upon discharge to local placement arrangements within a community setting. The patient is currently subject to Court of Protection oversight and frequent court rulings.
The support required includes administering feeds twice per day as part of a structured feeding plan under clinical supervision using the least restrictive methods of restraint. The Individual requires intensive interventions as part of their discharge plan which needed to be mobilised quickly and safely.
The Contract has been awarded for an initial period of 6 months (22nd September 2025 to 21st March 2026) with an option to extend for a further 6 months (21st August 2026).
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Independent Clinical Services Ltd (trading As Thornbury Community Services
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
- Contracts value
- £474,000
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 075251-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05e473
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Warrington
- Town
- Warrington
- Postcode
- WA1 1QY
- Electoral ward
- Bewsey and Whitecross
- Constituency
- Warrington South
- Delivery area
- Merseyside
- Region
- North West
- Sub-region
- Warrington
- Area
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Mervyn Kennedy
- Address
- Warrington, WA1 1QY · North West · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Independent Clinical Services Ltd (trading As Thornbury Community Services
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement
Who won the Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement contract?
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Independent Clinical Services Ltd (trading As Thornbury Community Services on 11 September 2025.
How much is the Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement contract worth?
The contract value is £474,000.
Who is the buyer for Specialist Support with Feeding Plan to enable Hospital Discharge / Placement?
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board, based in Warrington, North West. The named contact is Mervyn Kennedy.
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