Published date: 11 April 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 28 January 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

CM16 6TN

Value of contract

£4,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_270414/950329

Published date

11 April 2021

Closing date

28 January 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This is a Contract Award Notice which follows publication of a Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice published in OJEU on 19th March 2021 (reference OJ S: 2021/S 055-140292) setting out the intention of the Contracting Authority to award a 12 month contract (with the option to extend for a further 12 months) for the provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services to its incumbent provider, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST).

This follows previous Notices placed in OJEU relating to the extension of the contract with EEAST for these services (VEAT 2020/S 048-114897 published on 9th March 2020 and Contract Award Notice 2020/S 096-230726 published 18th May 2020).

The Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) takes patients to and from their homes, to their care provider, for planned appointments and treatment. Access to NEPTS is restricted by eligibility criteria, but at a high level are for those patients who:

- Have a condition such that they need additional medical support during their journey
- Find it difficult to walk
- Are the parents, guardians, or children, of patients who need transport

The current NEPTS contract in West Essex is due to expire on 31st March 2022. The Contracting Authority has plans to procure the service in collaboration with the Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups to create an Integrated Care System (ICS) wide service. A project team was established to progress this procurement process, through discussions it has been identified that it is likely that the service models will change in line with other transformation programmes being implemented, on which the success of this project is dependent on the outcomes. This will ensure that urgent and emergency journeys are fully considered to ensure gaps in current service provision are considered and commissioned appropriately. This requires significant commissioning and operational work with the Acute and Community providers at a time when operational capacity is dedicated to managing and recovering from the pandemic.

The new 1-year contract is awarded covering the period 1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023, with the option to extend for a further year (to 31st March 2024), which is the subject of this Contract Award Notice. The value of the contract set out within this Notice is the estimated value for the potential 2-year period. The value of the 1-
year contract is c. £2m

Award information

Awarded date

16 February 2021

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Total value of contract

£4,000,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

East of England Ambulance NHS Trust

Address

Whiting Way, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, SG8 6EN

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Building 4 Spencer Close, St Margaret's Hospital, The Plain
Epping
CM16 6TN
England

Email

Sarah.Beaumont@attain.co.uk