Notice Information
Notice Title
Specialised Critical Care Ambulance Transport Services for the East Midlands and West Midlands Regions
Notice Description
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU (AGCSU) on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement - Specialised Commissioning Team (referred to as the Commissioner) is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver the Specialised Critical Care Ambulance Transport Services for the East Midlands region and the West Midlands regional Adult Critical Care Transfer service. NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU (AGCSU) is acting as an agent for and on behalf of the Commissioner and is supporting the procurement process. NHS England and NHS Improvement - Specialised Commissioning Team are the contracting and commissioning authority for the contract resultant from this procurement and the contract will be held between them and the successful bidder.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The key objective of this procurement is to select a provider for delivering the specialised critical care ambulance transport services, to support: * Neonatal critical care (NCC); * Paediatric critical care (PCC); and * Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) services for paediatric and adult service users. In addition, by commissioning a combined Critical Care Ambulance Transport for NCC, PCC and ECMO pathways the Commissioner(s) would like to attain the following: * Improve clinical care and safety for patients, * Improve patient experience, * Improve performance against KPIs included within the service specification, * Improve activation times as a result of dedicated ambulance resources, * Enhance mainstream 999 ambulance service performance by commissioning a dedicated service, thus reducing the demand upon emergency resources being utilised for retrieval activity, * Increase retrieval service resilience for the NCC, PCC and ECMO pathways in the East Midlands and West Midlands regions, * Increase Emergency Preparedness Resilience Response (EPRR) regional and national response capacity for Major Incidents and system capacity issues, * Connect the transfer teams to clinical hubs via secure vehicle video and telemedicine link and provide them a consultant level remote decision support.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-02b457
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011493-2021
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85143000 - Ambulance services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £19,250,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 27 Jul 20214 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 28 Jun 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT
- Contact Name
- Charlotte Highcock
- Contact Email
- charlotte.highcock@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LEICESTER
- Postcode
- LE19 1SX
- Post Town
- Leicester
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLF East Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLF2 Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLF22 Leicestershire CC and Rutland
- Delivery Location
- TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Blaby
- Electoral Ward
- Enderby
- Westminster Constituency
- South Leicestershire
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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