Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Cora Health MSK Limited
- Value
- £84,392,517.55
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Health & social care · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 85140000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 058719-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Sep 2025
- Published22 Sep 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The Authority has undertaken a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (the Regulations) and intends to award the Proposed Contract for a new Integrated Community Musculoskeletal and Pain Service (the Service) to the Preferred Bidder identified through the process, Cora Health MSK Limited. Working with stakeholders since 2023, the Authority has developed a new community pathway for people aged 16 years+, based on the East of England Musculoskeletal (MSK) Pathway Improvement Framework, the Best MSK high impact recommendations and adhering to the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) pathway. This new model of care intends to provide integration across patient pathways, including Single Point of Access (SPoA), clinical triage, physiotherapy, orthopaedics, spinal, rheumatology, pain management, surgical interventions and therapies across MSE. It will assess and treat more patients outside of acute services and deliver improved outcome…
About the supplier
Cora Health MSK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02337692).