Contract

Transferring Care for 3 individuals with a Learning Disability and/or are autistic who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition into Nixon Street-NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB

• NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-025947

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-05a643 (view related notices)

Published 20 March 2026, 4:19pm

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one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB)

No 1 Lakeside, 920 Centre Park

Warrington

WA1 1QY

Email

stephen.evans@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKD61 - Warrington

NHS Organisation Data Service

QYG

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Health

Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Transferring Care for 3 individuals with a Learning Disability and/or are autistic who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition into Nixon Street-NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB

Reference number

WHISP 413

two.1.2) Main CPV code

Health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit is working as an agent on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) who have undertaken a procurement for the provision of transferring care for 3 individuals with a learning disability and/or are autistic who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition into Nixon Street for patients from Cheshire East Place.

This Procurement was to identify a provider to deliver care and support services for those individuals who have been identified for the Nixon Street property. Initially Nixon Street capital was secured for Cheshire East individuals with a Learning Disability and/or autistic people with behaviours that challenge due to Cheshire East having no suitable accommodation adapted for people with autism and challenging behaviours that offers self-contained accommodation, with specialist adaptations and care.

However, this facility will also be able to support individuals being discharged from Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, so could be used by Cheshire West and Wirral individuals to ensure the facility is fully occupied and therefore provides value for money.

There is also the opportunity to repatriate individuals back into area from Independent Sector facilities should there be capacity.

Whilst the facility will prioritise individuals from Cheshire East initially, priority will be given to individuals from the below places, in the order listed below:

a) Cheshire East

b) Cheshire West

c) Wirral

d) New patients being discharged from hospital or repatriating back to area.

Following this, the ICB would then look to prioritise individuals from other Places across the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB Footprint.

Nixon Street is a substantial property located in Macclesfield, in close proximity to the town centre. It's location is near the main district general hospital (MDGH) and in short walking distance to the Learning Disability Community Team and Macclesfield Mental Health Services.

NHS England (NHSE) have previously provided substantial capital for the renovation of Nixon Street and are looking to handover to the landlord by the end of April 2026, therefore it's key that this service provision is in place to support the mobilisation of the property to support rehabilitation.

Please note, the construction timeline may change, which may have subsequent delays to the timescales.

The scheme has been developed specifically for 3 individuals with a Learning Disability and/or Autism who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition from the Cheshire area. It has been historically very difficult to find suitable

placements for those individuals which can contribute to admissions and placement breakdowns. This procurement was to provide supportive ongoing clinical care to those individuals who have been discharged from Acute settings.

The ICB's focus was to provide homes for people in the community rather than relying on out of area housing pathways once the individual's rehabilitation and treatment has been completed.

The Transforming Care programme aims to improve the lives of children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition.

The programme has three key aims:

• To improve quality of care for people with learning disability and/or autism

• To improve quality of life for people with a learning disability and/or autism

• To enhance community capacity, thereby reducing inappropriate hospital admissions and length of stay.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £5,859,703

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

Miscellaneous health services

Rehabilitation services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes

• UKD62 - Cheshire East

Main site or place of performance

Macclesfield

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

This notice is an intention to award a contract notice, for a competitive process, in line with the requirements for Health Services and mixed procurements which fall under Regulation 3 and 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

This is a new service and the contract will be awarded to a new provider.

The contract was planned to start 27th April 2026, however, due to unforeseen delays in the procurement process, the contract start date will now be 1st June 2026.

The contract will be for 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years, until 31st May 2031.

The Invitation to Tender was live on Monday 15th December 2025 on the Atamis Portal.

The deadline for submissions was Tuesday 20th January 2026 12:00pm.

To express interest and participate in the Competitive Process, providers were instructed to register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome

The Atamis contract reference was C405584 'Dec 25 - C&M Transferring Care for 3 individuals into Nixon Street'.

The overall maximum financial envelope for this tender was £6,119,704.00 (for 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years), based on 2:1 support for each individual in the first year.

This was the figure used to assess the bids financially.

There may be some fluctuations in the package requirements stepping down for one individual, as it's expected the support needed will reduce during the contract period.

Any bid whose overall cost was higher than the overall maximum financial envelope of £6,119,704.00 for the total 5-year contract (3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years), was to be viewed as non-compliant and would take no further part in the procurement exercise.

In addition, any bid whose annual maximum financial values were higher than the maximum financial values for each year shown below, was also viewed as non-compliant and would take no further part in the procurement exercise.

This was done during the evaluation of the Pass / Fail criteria stage (please see procurement document Annex 7 Evaluation Model, section 3.10(b) for details).

The maximum annual financial values were as below:

Year 1 - £1,653,524.00

Year 2 - £1,116,545.00

Year 3 - £1,116,545.00

Year 4 - £1,116,545.00

Year 5 - £1,116,545.00.

There will need to be flexibility regarding the packages should there be a change in the clinical need for one or more of the package, these changes will be based on the individual's needs and matched to the level of staffing required to support these needs as contained in the Annex 13 Tiered Rates document provided with the tender documents.

The cost analysis was based on the lowest overall price submitted for the maximum financial value (under £6,119,704.00 for the total 5-year contract (3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years). The 5 year total was to be evaluated.

If additional care is required, then this will be paid at the additional rates identified in Annex 13 Tiered Rates.

The approximate lifetime value of the contract that has been awarded is £5,859,703 for 5 years (3 years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years). This was below the maximum financial envelope of £6,119,704.

The questionnaires were located within the requirements.

Further details were made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.

The contract award criteria was specified in the procurement documents, including the agreed relative importance of key criteria (e.g., weighting, prioritisation) against which the bids were evaluated.

The ICB considers this service to be a mixed procurement, in line with Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Regulation 3, with the main benefits of the overall health service placing this key service under Provider Selection Regime for the arrangement of Healthcare services where:

the main subject matter of the contract is in-scope healthcare services;

and the relevant authority is of the view that the out of scope goods or services could not reasonably be supplied under a separate contract (that is, where procuring goods or services separately would likely prevent the relevant authority from meeting its duty to act in accordance with the procurement principles).

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Quality & Innovation / Weighting: 32

Quality criterion - Name: Integration, Collaboration, and Service Sustainability / Weighting: 17.50

Quality criterion - Name: Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice / Weighting: 10.50

Quality criterion - Name: Social Value / Weighting: 10

Cost criterion - Name: Value / Weighting: 30

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2025/S 000-083047

Section five. Award of contract

Title

Transferring Care for 3 individuals with a Learning Disability and/or are autistic who display behaviours that challenge, including those with a mental health condition into Nixon Street

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

19 March 2026

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 20

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Home not Hospital Ltd

Office 27 Victoria Office And Conference Centre,

Victoria

PL26 8LG

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

• UKK - South West (England)

Companies House

13563422

The contractor is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £6,119,704

Total value of the contract/lot: £5,859,703

Section six. Complementary information

six.3) 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 or the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.

The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice.

Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 24:00 Wednesday 1st April 2026.

This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR.'

Written representations should be sent to Stephen Evans, Head of Contracting (Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral), NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB

via stephen.evans@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk.

The decision has been approved by the ICB Executive Team followed by the Finance, Investment and Contracting Committee (FICC) there were no declarations of interest made by members that would materially or adversely impact on matters requiring discussion and decision. The decision to award was made in line with the conflict of interest policy.

Bidders who submitted a bid over the maximum contract value, would not achieve the score of a pass.

Bids which achieved a pass in the Basic Selection stage, were to be assessed for the below scored questions, in the 5 Key Criteria Stage:

• Quality & Innovation - 32.00%

• Value - 30.00%

• Integration, Collaboration, Service Sustainability - 17.50%

• Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities, Facilitating Choice - 10.50%

• Social Value - 10.00%

The highest weighted key criteria was considered by the ICB to be of higher importance with the most important being quality and innovation, followed by value.

Following the completed evaluation and moderation process, the Bidder having passed the pass / fail criteria and with the highest combined scores, has been named as the successful Bidder.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB

No 1 Lakeside, 920 Centre Park,

Warrington

WA1 1QY

Country

United Kingdom