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Awarded· 12 Feb 2025

SWH - Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26

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. It is a contract for other health and social care in Welwyn Hatfield.

Source: Find a Tender, published 5 Mar 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.

Key dates

  1. 2025

    Contract awarded

    Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care

  2. 2025

    Award notice published

    Award Notice · 10:29

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  3. 2025

    Tender notice updated

    Tender Notice · 18:13

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  4. 2025

    Tender notice updated

    Tender Notice · 13:13

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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. 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 12 February 2025. The contract value is £1,785,226.

It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 5 March 2025. The notice number is 008043-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04df13.

Summary of the contracting process

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking to award a contract for the "SWH - Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26" under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulations 2023. This procurement process falls under the services category, specifically health services (CPV 85100000).

The contract pertains to providing rapid personalised care packages within 48 hours for patients on the end-of-life pathway, ensuring their preferred place of care and death. The procurement stage is currently at the award notification stage, with formal written representations allowed until 26th February 2025.

The location for this service is in the UKH23 region, and the contract has a potential maximum value of £1,785,226 per annum, with the option to be extended for an additional 12 months. The successful provider, Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, has demonstrated integrated and collaborative service delivery along with adherence to quality and social value criteria.

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.

    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.

    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 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.

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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
£1,785,226

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
008043-2025
Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04df13
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
Phone
+44 1923244366
Address
Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6JL · East · England

Not stated in the notice: contact.

Call +44 1923244366

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

Who won the SWH - Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26 contract?

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care on 12 February 2025.

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

The contract value is £1,785,226.

Who is the buyer for SWH - Rapid Personalised Care Service 25/26?

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

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