Published date: 17 August 2020

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 17 August 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Ambulance services - 85143000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

OJEU 2020/S 158-386838 Prior Information Notice

Published date

17 August 2020

Approach to market date

17 August 2020

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

31 March 2025

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

Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, North Staffordshire, South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula, Stafford and Surrounds and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs are seeking to appoint a provider to deliver non-emergency patient transport commencing August 2021 with the provider appointed through a multi-year contract. The CCGs will be seeking a provider that delivers a high quality patient focused service that is cost effective and innovative which underpins NHS services across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. A formal tender may be issued from Early September 2020 and Commissioners would like to gauge the appetite in the market, and would like potential bidders to express an interest in participating in this opportunity. Interested parties are asked to express their interest via email to r.klimczak@nhs.net, julia.summers@nhs.net and samantha.yates6@nhs.net stating your Company name and contact details.


More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2021/2022 £1

Additional text

Interested parties are asked to express their interest via email to r.klimczak@nhs.net ; samantha.yates6@nhs.net and julia.summers@nhs.net stating your Company name and contact details. Should a procurement be undertaken, this will be done via the Midlands and Lancashire CSU e. Procurement portal hosted by Bravo Solutions. 'Light Touch Regime' services: the future procurement will be for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the Contracting Authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The Contracting Authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authorities are following is set out in the Annex 1 issued with any future tender. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (procurement, patient choice and competition) (No2) Regulations 2013 these regulations also apply to this procurement.
Any future tender will be undertaken via an e-procurement portal hosted by Bravo Solutions. To access published documentation, bidders should be registered with that portal. Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, to register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk if not already done so.


About the buyer

Contact name

Roman Klimczak

Address

Midlands and Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group
Heron House, 120 Grove Road, Fenton
Stoke on Trent
ST4 4LX
England

Email

R.Klimczak@nhs.net