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Awarded· 28 Feb 2025

SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board · Welwyn Hatfield, East

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice. It is a contract for other health and social care in Welwyn Hatfield.

Source: Find a Tender, published 13 Mar 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.

Key dates

  1. 2025

    Award notice published

    Award Notice · 10:11

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  2. 2025

    Tender notice updated

    Tender Notice · 08:34

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About this tender

In brief

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice. It is a contract for other health and social care in Welwyn Hatfield. The contract went to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care. It was awarded on 28 February 2025. The contract value is £3,031,458.

It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 13 March 2025. The notice number is 009115-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04e887.

Summary of the contracting process

The NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has initiated the procurement process for the "SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice" under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

The relevant contract has been awarded to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice with a start date of 1st April 2025 and runs until 31st March 2026, with an option to extend for an additional 12 months. The total value for the initial contract period is £1,515,729 per annum, amounting to a potential maximum value of £3,031,458 if extended.

The procurement process used is a Direct Award Process C, focusing on health services within the region of Welwyn Garden City (UKH23). This award follows a confirmation notice on 13th March 2025, subsequent to an intention to award published on 28th February 2025, with representations from providers to decision makers required by 12th March 2025.

The service ensures rapid intervention by providing packages of care within 48 hours of referral, supporting earlier hospital discharges, and managing patients within the community. Furthermore, organisations that focus on reducing health inequalities, enhancing patient choice, and contributing to social value, especially aligned with environmental sustainability and reducing carbon footprints, will find themselves well-aligned with the tender’s objectives.

Successful bidders will need to demonstrate an ability to meet these rigorous standards, ensuring seamless continuity of care and supporting general practitioners, patients, and wider system providers.

The notice in full

The RPCS accepts referrals from all system stakeholders for EOL patients whose preferred place of care or preferred place of death is at home. The service provides a package of care (POC) based on assessed needs of the patient as soon as the referral is accepted and based on the assessed needs of the patient.

RPCS completes a checklist assessment between week 6 - 8 to ensure that the CHC team can complete the decision support tool (DST) assessment for any patient requiring fast track provision.

Lots (1)

  1. 01

    Lot 1Cancelled

    The Rapid Personalised Care Service (RPCS) provides packages of care within 48 hours of accepting a referral for patients on the end-of-life pathway and will refer post 12 weeks patients to the CHC fast track service between week 6-8. This ensures that only the appropriate cohort of patients use the CHC fast track service.

    This service ensures that patients on this pathway are cared for in their preferred place of care and preferred place of death when indicated as home in their advanced care plan. The service also ensures: -

    * Patients and carers can access other wellbeing services provided by the Hospices.

    * Patients, carers, and families can access bereavement services.

    * Support earlier discharges from hospital and provide agreed packages of care within 48 hours.

    * Prevention of non-elective admissions.

    * Supports patients to be managed within the community.

    The RPCS service is awarded to two Providers, Rennie Grove Peace Hospice with a value of PS1,515,729 per annum and Hospice of St Francis with a value of PS184,799 per annum.

    To confirm as per the PSR direct award process C, the current provider is satisfying the existing contract, delivering a good service, meeting all KPIs, with no quality concerns and good outcomes and has received very good feedback from GPs, patients and wider system providers. The service providers are likely to satisfy the new contract, and the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing from the existing contract.

    Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to 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.

    The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by 12th March 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

    Any formal written representations should be sent to: hweicbhv.procurementteam@nhs.net.

    The contract has been in place with Rennie Grove, Peace Hospice, Hospice of St. Francis since 2019 with a cumulative contract value to March 2025 of PS13,662,126. The maximum value of the new contract for Rennie Grove Peace Hospice and Hospice of St. Francis is PS1,785,226 per annum, should the optional extension be used, the maximum contract value for the 2 year period is PS3,570,452.

    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 the 9th January 2025 and there were no recorded or potential conflicts of interest of individuals making the decision declared at this meeting.

    The decision to award this contract in line with Direct Award Process C was based on evaluation against the five required key criteria as follows:

    * Quality and Innovation - Assured - HWE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering a safe and effective service as required by the specification and contract they are currently delivering.

    * Value - Assured - HWE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering value to the Health & Care Partnership integrated care system.

    * Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - Assured - HWE ICB are assured that the provider is positively impacting on the integrated care system through their integration and collaboration delivered as a requirement of the specification or alternative elements linked to the delivery.

    * Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities and Facilitating Choice - Assured - HWE ICB are assured that the provider is meeting needs of the population to ensure equitable access and choice as required by the specification and contract.

    * Social Value - Assured - HWE ICB are assured that the provider is delivering in line with the HWE Green Plan, supporting with the implementation of carbon reduction and increase in initiatives which positively impact on the wider determinants of health.

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Key facts

Every field the notice carries. Anything it leaves blank is listed under its table.

Contract

Service
Other health and social care
Procurement type
Standard
Category
Services
Contract period
Not specified - Not specified
Lots
1
Awarded to
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
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

Contracts value
£3,031,458

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
009115-2025
Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e887
CPV code
85100000 - Health services
CPV division
85 - Health and social work services
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Location

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board is based in Welwyn Hatfield. The area the service covers can be wider, so check the notice and the lots.
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
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Buyer and supplier

Contracting authority

Organisation
NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
Category
Services
Address
Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6JL · East · England

Not stated in the notice: contact, phone.

Awarded supplier

Supplier
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
Awardee scale
Large
Number of suppliers
1
Awards value
Not stated
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Documents and links

Official sources for this notice. The tender pack itself sits on the buyer's portal.
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Questions about SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice

Who won the SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice contract?

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care on 28 February 2025.

How much is the SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice contract worth?

The contract value is £3,031,458.

Who is the buyer for SWH Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice?

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Welwyn Hatfield, East.

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