Accident Compensation Corporation

Traumatic Brain Injury Residential Rehabilitation (TBIRR) Services based in Christchurch

ACC will run an open, competitive tender to contract with a Supplier, or consortia of Suppliers, based in the Canterbury region who can provide intensive inpatient rehabilitation services to ACC clients who have sustained a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
The services must be delivered in Christchurch at a hospital-level care inpatient rehabilitation facility to clients typically aged 16 and over.
We estimate just under 1 patient a week could enter the Christchurch facility, with an average stay of 26 days per patient.
The tender will be based on the current service schedule: tbi-residential-rehabilitation-service-schedule.pdf, which runs from 1 May 2020 until 31 March 2028.
Ultimately, we are looking to contract with a supplier or consortia of suppliers able to successfully deliver services to the above service schedule requirements.
Success in this tender will be based on your evidenced ability to deliver to the service schedule and achieving rehabilitation outcomes that matter to the Client and their whānau.
Remember, this is an open, competitive tender and ACC will only contract with 1 supplier or consortia of suppliers who can deliver the service from a single hospital-level care specialist rehabilitation facility.
Interested? What’s next?
Start by subscribing to this Notice to keep up to date with this opportunity. ACC will continue releasing information to this Notice, such as webinar dates. Subscribing to this Notice will ensure you are notified of released information.
Read the Service Schedule above, as this will give you all the technical detail required, and enable you to start thinking about your response.
Have conversations with potential partners to see if a consortia bid would better suit your business.
Ask us questions via GETS, but you need to have subscribed to this Notice first. We will publish your question and our answer on this Notice, but your name will remain unidentifiable.
Finally, if you would like advice on how to respond to tenders, the resource ‘Submitting a Tender’ hosted on MBIE’s website is a useful link to read: https://www.procurement.govt.nz/suppliers/submitting-a-tender/
Indicative timeline
The exact date we will release the Tender has yet to be confirmed – but we are looking to release the Tender around 4 September 2025 with responses due around 16 October 2025.