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Provision of Insourced and Outsourced Clinical Services Framework

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS and health

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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced plans to buy healthcare work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.

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What the notice says

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The relevant Tender Notice was 2025/S 000-016528 with OCID ocds-h6vhtk-05065a The awarding of this framework agreement 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 and The Procurement Regulations 2024 d o 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 midnight at the end of 22 August 2025 to info@coch-cps.co.uk. This framework agreement has not yet been formally concluded;…Read the full description
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The relevant Tender Notice was 2025/S 000-016528 with OCID ocds-h6vhtk-05065a The awarding of this framework agreement 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 and The Procurement Regulations 2024 d o 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 midnight at the end of 22 August 2025 to info@coch-cps.co.uk. This framework agreement has not yet been formally concluded; this notice serves as an intention to establish the framework agreement under the PSR. The award decision makers were two Senior Commercial Procurement Specialists, the Commercial Procurement Manager and the Director of Commercial Procurement Services. The Key Criteria were: Lot 1 • Social Value Pass/Fail • Value - Value Declaration Pass/Fail • Value - Commercial Questionnaire Pass/Fail • Quality and Innovation - Service quality 25% • Quality and Innovation - Patient experience & patient safety 25% • Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability - Integration & collaboration 15% • Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability - Increasing capacity 15% • Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability - Service mobilisation 10% • Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice - Meeting patient needs and preferences 5% • Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice - Communication with patients and contracting Relevant Authorities 5% Lot 2 • Social Value Pass/Fail • Value - Value Declaration Pass/Fail • Value - Commercial Questionnaire Pass/Fail • Quality and Innovation - Service quality 25% • Quality and Innovation - Patient experience & patient safety 25% • Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability - Integration & collaboration 15% • Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability - Increasing capacity 15% • Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability - Service mobilisation 10% • Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice - Meeting patient needs and preferences 5% • Improving access, reducing health inequalities, and facilitating choice - Communication with patients and contracting Relevant Authorities 5% The framework will be available to all Relevant Authorities (and any future successors to these organisations). "Relevant Authority" is defined in section 12ZB(7) of the National Health Service Act 2006 and in section 10A(9) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006. The aim of this Framework is to provide Relevant Authorities with fully compliant solutions which supplement the delivery of patient care by Relevant Authorities in line with the NHS' core Key Performance Indicators and standards. The Framework will have two Lots. Lot 1 Insourced Clinical Services Lot 2 Outsourced Clinical Services Insourced Services are clinical services which are delivered on the premises of the contracting Relevant Authority and may use that organisation's equipment. Outsourced Services are clinical services which are delivered on premises owned or operated by the Provider. Insourced and Outsourced Services will include the full range of Surgical and Medical specialties and sub-specialties. The specialties and sub-specialties are those listed by the various Surgical and Medical Royal Colleges. In accordance with Regulation 17 of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 and Regulation 17 of The Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025, new Providers may be added to this Framework during the Term of the Framework. Award of a Framework Agreement does not guarantee or imply any commitment to award a Call-off Contract by any Relevant Authority.

How to bid

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  2. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.

Timeline

  1. Contract notice (update) · notice 068191-2025
  2. Contract notice (update) · notice 078101-2025
  3. Contract notice (update) · notice 086224-2025
  4. Contract notice (update) · notice 008071-2026
  5. Contract notice (update) · notice 018072-2026
  6. Contract notice (update) · notice 040368-2026
  7. Contract notice (update) · notice 050582-2026
  8. Contract notice (update) · notice 060362-2026
  9. Contract notice (update) · notice 072805-2026

Last time this was bought

Provision of Insourced and Outsourced Clinical Services Framework (Framework Reopening)

Awarded
1 September 2026
Value
Not stated, or split across lots

Matched on Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the type of work and the title. Check the notice to be sure.

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From notice 068191-2025 on Find a Tender, first published 24 October 2025, last updated 31 July 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.