Published date: 12 March 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 12 April 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£3,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_164706/659458

Published date

12 March 2018

Closing date

12 April 2018

Contract start date

2 July 2018

Contract end date

1 July 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Supplementary Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPTS) for Mid, South & West Essex CCGs.
There are 3 main NEPTS providers across Essex. ERS serve Mid Essex, EEAST serve West and a combinationof EEAST and Thames serve South Essex.
Whilst over 90% of activity volumes are met by these providers, the CCGs are having to use a number ofadditional providers at short notice to supplement this provision.
At present, this NEPTS activity is sourced from a small number of known PTS providers.
The CCGs can sometimes struggle to fulfil the patient journey requirement, therefore are keen to increase thiscapacity through a Dynamic Purchasing System Framework.

Lot 1 Outsourced Service
The Patient Transport Service (PTS) is for NHS non-emergency patients and their escorts who meet the eligibility criteria as defined by the Department of Health on 19.9.2007. These are journeys between their place of residence and healthcare facilities. The place of residence is defined as any address specified at the time of booking, e.g. home, nursing home, hospice, hospital or treatment centre. There may be a requirement for patients to be taken to non NHS establishments e.g. Private Hospitals; however this will only be the case when they are going to receive NHS funded treatment at that establishment.

Lot 2 Critical Care Transfers
In 2018/19, the CCG becomes responsible for sourcing low level critical care transfers between acute trusts following a change in the EEAST blue light contract (currently within the EEAST blue light contract). This equates to roughly 600 journeys per year across the 6 CCGs. Across the STP, CCGs have no contractual or regular arrangements outside of the EEAST blue light contract for the provision of technician/paramedic crew activity.

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To access the Selection Questionnaire documents, please register at link below or log in if already registered and express an interest for Supplementary Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPTS) for Mid, South & West Essex ad download the documents:

https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/

About the buyer

Contact name

Raj Ragiwala

Address

Phoenix Place, Christopher Martin Road
Basildon
SS14 3HG
England

Telephone

07584 021366

Email

raj.ragiwala@attain.co.uk

Website

https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/