Published date: 20 April 2016

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: 6 May 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

  • Market research services - 79310000

Location of contract

WF2 0XQ

Value of contract

£0 to £25,000

Procurement reference

YAS 01229

Published date

20 April 2016

Closing date

6 May 2016

Contract start date

11 May 2016

Contract end date

19 December 2016

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 Trust is looking for a supplier(s) for the creation and on-going delivery of a system of public deliberative panels. The aim is to secure high quality, year round, structured engagement with local people across Yorkshire.

Ambulance Service (YAS) is in the process of developing a new corporate strategy for the coming five years. The strategy will encompass the entirety of YAS operations and will include plans for a radical transformation programme across its urgent and emergency services, the 999 and NHS111 call centres (including development of a world-class shared clinical advisory hub) and patient transport services.

An important step in the process of developing the strategy is meaningful engagement with a range of stakeholders. To that end, YAS wishes to stage two deliberative style events in early summer 2016.

One event will be for corporate and/or quasi-political stakeholders such as local MPs, local authority members (including Chairs of Overview and Scrutiny Committees) and NHS commissioners and providers. The second event will be for patient representatives, those representing the local communities in Yorkshire (such as Healthwatch) and the third sector.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) was formed on 1 July 2006 following the
merger of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire Metropolitan and Tees, East and North Yorkshire (East and North Yorkshire areas only) ambulance services.

In the years since 2006, YAS has demonstrated a strong track record of improving patient services through the adoption and implementation of innovative clinical practices and improving equipment and technology.
The Trust now employs over 4,000 staff that, together with over 3,000 volunteers, provide 24-hour emergency and healthcare services to a population of more than five million people.

The Trust's main roles are to:

1) receive 999 calls in our virtual emergency operations centre, based on two sites in Wakefield and York, and deploy the most appropriate response to meet patients' needs.
2) respond to 999 calls by getting medical help to patients who have serious or life-threatening injuries or illnesses as quickly as possible.
3) take eligible patients to and from their hospital appointments with our non-emergency Patient Transport Service provide the region's NHS 111 urgent medical help and advice line.

YAS responds to over 750,000 emergency 999 and urgent calls and undertake approximately one million patient transport journeys per year across the region. The new NHS 111 service for less urgent calls is expected to handle more than 1.4m calls per year across Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as Bassetlaw, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The Trust also provides major incident resilience, medical and first aid support.

In addition, YAS supplies ambulance cover for private functions and public events (the private and events service), training, fleet and ...

More information

Links

Additional text

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust shall use an online tendering system (In-Tend) to deliver the procurement. To access the tender documents please follow the steps below.

1) Go to 'Current Tender Opportunities' from the eTendering portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home
This will provide you with a full list of current tender opportunities. For the project you are interested in click on'View Details' in the initial project view.
2) If you are not a registered user of In-tend follow the 'Register' tab otherwise follow the 'Login' link and enter email address and password.
3) From this tender management screen you will be presented will a fuller overview of the project and if interested you are able to 'Express Interest'. 'Expressing interest' is not responding to the project, you will now have to complete the questionnaire and submit your response within the timescales indicated.
4) Go to the 'Tenders' section and click on 'My Tenders', click on 'View Details' within the project you are interested and you will now be able access attached documents and questionnaires that require completing as part of your response. Any sections indicated in red are awaiting your completion.
Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the 'Guidance for Suppliers' tab which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Buyer Profiles
For any support in submitting your response please contact In-tend Support team at support@in-tend.co.uk (or call +44 8455578079 / 1144070065.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Garry Raisbeck

Address

Brindley Way
Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate
Wakefield
WF2 0XQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

01924584743

Email

garry.raisbeck@yas.nhs.uk