Published date: 14 February 2017

Last edited date: 14 February 2017

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: 16 May 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Patient-transport vehicles - 34114122

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£5,199,000

Procurement reference

SCW/NHS99PCCG/00000361/2017

Published date

14 February 2017

Closing date

16 May 2017

Contract start date

6 November 2017

Contract end date

28 May 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Department of Health defines non-emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) as the 'non-urgent, planned, transportation of patients with a medical need for transport to and from a premises providing NHS healthcare and between NHS healthcare providers'.

Services that are included in this procurement are:

The NEPTS will cover Plymouth NHS Healthcare sites (to and from) and patients registered with GPs in PL1 to PL9.
The service will predominantly convey eligible patients in multi seated vehicles to cope with a variety of wheelchair carrying options that will only be for medically eligible patients as assessed by the Plymouth Transport Booking Service. The service will cover all mobility types. Essentially stretchers, some wheelchair users and bariatric patients.
Whilst 'walkers' are included it is expected that the service (in pursuit of value for public-money and CO2 footprint management) will be mainly delivered in multi-seated vehicles such as existing NEPTS ambulance models and single patient car journeys actively discouraged.

The PTS provider will be required to have a PTS planning and coordinating function that interfaces with the Plymouth Transport Booking Service within the hours the Plymouth Transport Booking Service operates and have a system for the period that the PTS operates that is outside the Plymouth Transport Booking Service operating hours.

More information

Links

Additional text

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

About the buyer

Contact name

Mark Harding

Address

NHS NEW Devon CCG, County Hall, Topsham Road
Exeter
EX2 4QD
England

Email

scwcsu.clinical.procurement@nhs.net