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
2025
Contract awarded
Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 10:29
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Tender notice updated
Tender Notice · 18:13
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Tender notice updated
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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)
- 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.
Key facts
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
Location
- 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
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.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
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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