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title: "Basildon Ambulance Hub"
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# Basildon Ambulance Hub

Buyer: EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-041b8e

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## Summary

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust has awarded a contract for the construction of the Basildon Ambulance Hub to Basildon Borough Council. The procurement process was initiated as a tender and has now reached the award stage. The Hub is planned to be built on a site owned by the Council in Basildon, UK. The contract falls outside the scope of application of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Trust aims to deliver an optimally located station at a lower cost compared to alternative options, leveraging the Council's exclusive rights to the site.

The construction of the Basildon Ambulance Hub presents an opportunity for construction contractors to compete for the development agreement with the Council. Businesses well-suited for this tender are those capable of undertaking site-development work within the health industry sector. The contract value is £30,000,000 GBP, with a 30-year finance lease agreement upon completion. The Trust will have the right to purchase the freehold at the end of the lease. The tender offers businesses the chance to contribute to the vital healthcare infrastructure in the East of England region.

## Notice

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (the "Trust") wishes to deliver a new ambulance hub facility (the "Hub") and intends to enter into a development agreement with Basildon Borough Council (the "Council") for the construction of the Hub on a site owned by the Council. Under the terms of the development agreement with the Council, the Council intends to run a competitive process in order to appoint a suitably qualified construction contractor to undertake the works.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The Council owns land which sits adjacent to Basildon University Hospital (the "Site"). The Site is located next to the hospital's emergency department which brings about significant logistical benefits, optimising the Trust's ability to deliver an effective and efficient service, as well as enabling funding to be obtained from the public works loan board, ensuring value for money. The Trust requires a site of approx. 2 acres (sites of less than 1.75 acres are regarded as unsuitable) within 500-1000 metres of the hospital entrance. The current facility is 1500m away from the hospital entrance and, unless the new Hub was located closer to the hospital, it would be of little additional benefit to the Trust. In addition, the new Hub needs to: - provide good access onto the major roads network (access into local residential roads would not be acceptable as this would likely give rise to significant disruption to the local area and would jeopardise the speed at which ambulances could be despatched from the Hub); - be located on a site which would be regarded as likely to achieve a planning consent for an Ambulance Hub; - be located on a site where the owner agrees to the development of the site for an ambulance hub; and - be located on a site where the owner is prepared to deliver a new hub as a "turnkey" development on the site. I.e. design construct and lease the finished scheme to the Trust as the Trust requires to fund the development through rental, not capital. However, the Trust also requires the flexibility to invest capital and reduce its rental obligations under the project, in the event that any capital funding becomes available to the Trust. After performing an analysis of sites within a 1,500m radius of the hospital entrance: - 4 of those sites were regarded as being too small; - due to the major regeneration schemes being progressed by owners in the town centre, several of the larger sites are already well progressed in planning terms for mixed use development that are primarily residential; - only 3 sites were identified as being likely to obtain a planning consent for a Hub development, and one of those is the Hospital site itself. The Hospital Trust is seeking to relocate non-clinical services away from this site to enable a focus on clinical care. Setting aside a 2-acre site for an Ambulance Hub within the hospital site would not therefore be possible; Therefore, the only site that emerged from the above analysis, which meets the criteria discussed above, is the Site.

### Procurement Information

The contract provides that if the Council (i) proposes a design for the proposed development of an ambulance hub facility of circa 2000 square metres ("the PD") (ii) obtains a planning permission for the PD;(iii) selects a contractor through a competitive process; (iv) obtains a highways stopping up order necessary for the PD; and (v) resolves a title issue, in each case to the satisfaction of the Trust (which conditions the Council agrees to use specified endeavours to satisfy) the Council shall appoint the contractor to complete the PD in accordance with standard development obligations. On practical completion, the Trust will be obliged to accept a finance lease of the PD for 30 years. The Trust will have a right to terminate the development agreement at any time by notice up until the point at which the Council is obliged to appoint the contractor. The Council will have certain rights to terminate where it complies with its obligations but the conditions are not satisfied within certain time limits. The Trust will bear development cost risk and the Council will receive a 10% margin on the development costs. Therefore: where the development agreement is terminated (other than for Council default) abortive costs will be payable by the Trust to the Council, excluding certain costs (including those from which the Council may derive future benefit); the Council shall have the ability to review its appraisal of the development costs during the development process and (subject to the Trust's right to terminate, and certain categories of excluded costs) to include increased costs in its appraisal (which would then be subject to the rentalisation formula, described below); the Council's costs in its appraisal shall be rentalised pursuant to a formula in the development agreement. The costs to be rentalised include the development costs (plus margin), the land value and the Council's borrowing costs pursuant to the proposed public works loan board loan. As the rent payable by the Trust will vary depending on the cost of the PD, the quoted contract value in section II.1.7 of this notice is a best estimate at this time. At the end of the Trust's lease, subject to all rent having been paid, the Trust will be entitled to purchase the freehold from the Council for PS1. The Trust's lease will otherwise be on standard institutionally acceptable FRI terms with the Trust's rights to assign limited to similar public sector bodies. Further information is provided at Section VI.3 of this notice. The Trust considers in good faith, for the reasons described in Section II.2.4 of this notice, that the Site is the only site upon which the Hub can be constructed and the transaction is therefore exempt from the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 pursuant to regulation 32(2)(b)(iii), i.e. the Hub can only be delivered by the Council due to the existence of exclusive rights (i.e. the Council's ownership of the Site) and that no reasonable alternative exists.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/034376-2023 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Works |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 16 Jul 2017 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £30,000,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST |
| Locality | MELBOURN |
| Post town | Stevenage |
| Postcode | SG8 6EN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough |
| ITL 3 | TLH42 Cambridgeshire CC |
| Local authority | South Cambridgeshire |
| Electoral ward | Melbourn |
| Westminster constituency | South Cambridgeshire |
| Delivery location | TLH East (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | BASILDON BOROUGH COUNCIL |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 45 - Construction work

### Codes

- 45111291 - Site-development work

## Release History

- 21 Nov 2023 at 11:27 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/034376-2023

## Notice URLs

- http://eastamb.nhs.uk
- https://www.basildon.gov.uk/

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