Award

YAS 277 2023_24 999 & NHS111 Remote Clinical Support

YORKSHIRE AMBULANCE AUTHORITY NHS TRUST

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Award

03 Dec 2024 at 08:55

Tender

16 Sep 2024 at 13:02

Summary of the contracting process

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) has completed an intention to award notice under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) for their "YAS 277 2023/24 999 & NHS111 Remote Clinical Support" contract, classified under health services. This strategic sub-contract aims to provide telephone clinical assessment and onward navigation for lower acuity 999 & NHS111 calls within the Yorkshire & Humber region. The intended contract, valued at £4.5 million, is anticipated to commence on 1st April 2025 with an initial period of two years, plus an optional one-year extension. The procurement method used was an open procedure, with bid documents available through the Atamis procurement portal, and the procurement process is in the Award stage as of 3rd December 2024.

This tender creates significant opportunities for businesses with expertise in remote clinical support, providing an avenue for long-term collaboration with YAS. Ideal candidates are those who can deliver high-quality, responsive clinical assessments using a multi-disciplinary model, including General Practitioners, Nursing, and Allied Health Professionals. Businesses that possess robust technical infrastructure compatible with the national Integrated Urgent Care Specification will be well-positioned for this contract. The award criteria focus on quality, integration, service sustainability, value, and social contributions, offering a comprehensive framework for potential suppliers to showcase their capabilities and contribute to improving healthcare outcomes in the region.

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Notice Title

YAS 277 2023_24 999 & NHS111 Remote Clinical Support

Notice Description

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) is seeking to engage with potential providers to develop our future approach to sub-contracting additional clinical assessment support for the 999 and NHS111 services in Yorkshire & Humber. YAS intends to procure a sub contracted service to provide telephone clinical assessment and onward navigation for a proportion of lower acuity 999 & 111 calls, aiming to ensure patients get the most appropriate care at the earliest opportunity. The sub-contracted service would be a long-term strategic collaboration with YAS, providing responsive high quality clinical assessment resource and tactical resilience to the 999 and NHS111 services. The proposed service would commence on 1st April 2025, with an initial contract length of two years (24 months) and an optional extension of one year (12 months).

Lot Information

Lot 1

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) provide the Urgent & Emergency Ambulance Service (999) and the NHS111 service for the Yorkshire & Humber Region. Rising demand, increasing acuity, and the expansion of community urgent pathways and ED alternatives has placed an even greater emphasis on the role of 999 and NHS111 to provide robust remote clinical assessment and navigation at scale. YAS 999 and NHS111 services have historically been distinct, maintaining separate clinical hubs, separate systems and separate resilience arrangements. Both services offer remote triage, clinical assessment and onward navigation for patients with urgent and emergency care needs; aiming to ensure patients get the most appropriate care at the earliest opportunity. During 2024/25 and 2025/26 YAS is undertaking a transformation programme to develop an Integrated Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) across 999 and NHS111. This aims to streamline triage and care navigation processes, provide a more consistent response to patients and make the best use of our clinical resource. Over recent years, YAS services have regularly collaborated with system partners for external support to bolster our ability to offer prompt clinical assessment - including sub contracts, partnership arrangements and service pilots. As the Trust progresses with the development of its Integrated CAS we are seeking to sub-contract an external clinical service partner to provide remote clinical assessment for a proportion of NHS111 callers and low acuity 999 calls (cat 3-5). The scope and focus of the sub-contracted service will change over time, requiring collaboration and flexibility to support the current needs of both services and continue to evolve over time to support the single Integrated CAS. Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) is seeking to engage with potential providers to develop our future approach to sub-contracting additional clinical assessment support for the 999 and NHS111 services in Yorkshire & Humber. YAS intends to procure a sub contracted service to provide telephone clinical assessment and onward navigation for a proportion of lower acuity 999 & 111 calls, aiming to ensure patients get the most appropriate care at the earliest opportunity. The sub-contracted service would be a long-term strategic collaboration with YAS, providing responsive high quality clinical assessment resource and tactical resilience to the 999 and NHS111 services. All calls referred to the service will have first received a non-clinical triage using NHS Pathways or AMPDS, with 999 calls also being screened by a YAS clinical navigator, to ensure that calls are appropriate for transfer and have a high probability of being successfully resolved by a remote clinician.
* The proposed service would commence on 1st April 2025, with an initial contract length of two years (24 months) and an optional extension of one year (12 months).
* This is an intention to award a contract under the competitive process.

* YAS are seeking a single sub-contractor to operate on a Yorkshire and Humber level, managing referral volumes of ca. 70,000 calls per year (approximately 18,000 999 calls & 52,000 NHS111 calls)
* The intended case mix will span a range of lower acuity urgent calls, requiring the sub contracted service to operate a multi-disciplinary model including a combination of General Practitioner, Nursing and/or Allied Health Professional staffing.
* The service would require technical infrastructure consistent with the national Integrated Urgent Care Specification, including call recording, ITK messaging, capability to interrogate the Directory of Services and make onward referrals & direct bookings
* As a strategic collaboration the service will work flexibly with YAS services to adapt service models over time with a shared aim to use the totality of the YAS and sub-contracted resource to achieve the best possible patient outcomes.

This is an existing service and the contract award is to an existing provider. The contract award criteria are specified in the procurement documents. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is
subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the
avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to
this award.
Bid documents will be shared on the Atamis procurement portal. If not already registered,
please register on Atamis as a supplier here:
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
If needed, please access Supplier user guide here:
https://services.atamis.co.uk/docs/Supplier_User_Guide.pdf
Link to Atamis support is:
support-health@atamis.co.uk (Phone 029 2279 0052)

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-049b25
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038841-2024
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services


CPV Codes

85100000 - Health services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£4,500,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
3 Dec 20241 years ago
Submission Deadline
10 Oct 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
2 Dec 20241 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
YORKSHIRE AMBULANCE AUTHORITY NHS TRUST
Additional Buyers

YORKSHIRE AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST

Contact Name
Alice Hall, Procurement
Contact Email
alice.hall5@nhs.net, yas.procurement@nhs.net
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
WAKEFIELD
Postcode
WF2 0XW
Post Town
Wakefield
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLE4 West Yorkshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLE45 Wakefield
Delivery Location
TLE45 Wakefield

Local Authority
Wakefield
Electoral Ward
Wakefield West
Westminster Constituency
Wakefield and Rothwell

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

VOCARE

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