Published date: 24 May 2024

This notice was replaced on 1 November 2024

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 1 November 2024)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Administrative healthcare services - 75122000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

BWPCID000001-8

Published date

24 May 2024

Closing date

12 June 2024

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

1 August 2024

Contract end date

31 July 2027

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Bristol and Weston Purchasing Consortium ("BWPC") is working together with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust ("UHBW") to put a contract in place to provide Call Handling services for the management of referrals for advice and critical care transfers for Southwest Neonatal Advice and Retrieval (SoNAR), Wales and West Acute Transport for Children (WATCh), Retrieve Adult Critical Care Transfer Service, Bristol Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Service (ECMO) and Paediatric Major Trauma Service across Peninsula and Severn regions (to note WATCh also covers South Wales) that shall be implemented in full by August 2024 through an Open Tender Process.

Further details of the Authority's requirements under the Contract and other relevant information are detailed in the Specification at ITT Schedule 1 (Specification) and the Draft Contract at ITT Schedule 7 (Draft Contract)

Please click on the link and follow the instructions on the landing page to view bidding documents. If you are not already set up on Ariba as a supplier please use https://service.ariba.com/Discovery.aw/ad/viewRFX?id=19810237 for registration.

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Please click on the link and follow the instructions on the landing page to view bidding documents. If you are not already set up on Ariba as a supplier please use https://service.ariba.com/Discovery.aw/ad/viewRFX?id=19810237 for registration.

About the buyer

Contact name

Nicole Hester

Address

Christopher Hancock Building
North Bristol NHS Trust
Bristol
BS10 5NB
United Kingdom

Email

nicole.hester@nbt.nhs.uk

Website

www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-weston-nhs-purchasing-consortium