Published date: 23 May 2018

This notice was replaced on 26 February 2019

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

Awarded contract (published 26 February 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Special-purpose road passenger-transport services - 60130000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£4,500,000 to £7,500,000

Procurement reference

tender_171868/674874

Published date

23 May 2018

Approach to market date

22 June 2018

Contract start date

6 March 2019

Contract end date

5 March 2024

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Contracting Authority is planning to undertake an open procurement process to award a three year contract with the option to extend by up to 2 years (3+1+1). The estimated total value (£7.5m) of the opportunity included in this notice is based on the total potential contract term of 5 years (3+1+1).

Service Requirements

The aims and objectives of the service will be to:

Provide a non-emergency patient transport service that;
- Meets locally defined outcomes
- Meets the requirements of the document 'Eligibility Criteria for Patient Transport Services (Department of Health, 2007).

Local defined outcomes

The provision of a flexible, high quality Patient focused service which is safe, clinically effective and represents best value. Specifically the local outcomes include:
- Patients will arrive and depart safely and in a timely manner;
- There will be no detriment to the Patient's health and wellbeing during their journey;
- Provide a Patient focused booking system;
- Apply the eligibility criteria and local NEPTS decision making tool in a consistent and equitable manner;
- Provide high quality information to Patients enquiring about NEPTS and signposting those who are not eligible to appropriate local alternatives;
- Provide an integrated NEPTS which supports:
­ Planned and frequent journeys for Priority Patients;
Discharge from hospital;
­ Short notice urgent journeys;
Planned routine journeys.
- Provide high quality Patient experience and satisfaction;
- The Provider must take action to reduce carbon emissions and the carbon footprint of the journeys where possible.

The service is required to operate a local single point of access for booking by patients and healthcare professionals, deliver non-emergency patient transport to support priority users, outpatient services, hospital discharges and non-emergency inter-facility transfers.

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Additional text

The Authority would like to invite potential providers to a market engagement event on Tuesday 6 June 2018 from 2-3pm to share the commissioning intentions and proposed procurement timeline with providers.

Please register your attendance on the engagement event by sending a message to Kelly Wilson, Procurement Manager, eMBED Health Consortium, via www.nhssourcing.co.uk by accessing pqq_29434 by Monday 5 June 2018. Places are limited to two individuals per organisation.

About the buyer

Contact name

Kelly Wilson

Address

Health Place, Wrawby Road
Brigg
DN30 8GS
England

Email

kelly.wilson2@nhs.net