Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-01-29
Buyer: South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34114120 | 50111000: Fleet management and maintenance services | 50117200 | 66114000
Estimated value: 500000000 GBP
Award criteria: Cost, Quality (comprising of a number of sub-criteria disclosed in the tender documentation)

Technical requirements: Cost
Quality (comprising of a number of sub-criteria disclosed in the tender documentation)
Paramedic vehicles. Financial leasing services. Fleet management, repair and maintenance services. Ambulance conversion services. This tender was undertaken as an open procedure, as detailed in Regulation 27 of the UK statutory instrument Public Contracts Regulations 2015/102.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust invited tenders for organisations to participate in a 48 month Agreement. The Agreement will be used by the Authority and may also be used by all other Ambulance Trusts, South Central Fleet Services Ltd and other organisations located in the United Kingdom, a list of all Eligible Bodies can be found at:
Capita Treasury Solutions Limited, trading as Capita Asset Services (Capita), a major provider of advisory services to the UK public sector, will use this Agreement to enable its clients to supply/convert, lease, hire and maintain ambulance and specialist vehicles. Capita will provide details of the Agreement and market the Agreement to its clients.
The Agreement is also available to all current and future members of The Procurement Partnership Limited's (TPPL) buying club. A list of members of TPPL can be obtained from http://www.tppl.co.uk/about-us/our-members/.
The primary vehicles required under this framework include supply/conversion of accident and emergency, rapid response, patient transport, ambulance service support vehicles. Services include leasing, repairs/maintenance and contract hire. Other vehicles and services (such as short term hire of ambulance vehicles (including specialist vehicles) or Service, Maintenance and Repair (SMR) solutions) that are related to the focus of this Agreement are expected to be provided as part of this Agreement within the closest relevant Lot(s). As an example, the short-term hire of ambulance vehicles is an additional service available from several lots.
The Agreement will be used by the Authority and may also be used by all other Ambulance Trusts, South Central Fleet Services Ltd and other organisations (‘Eligible Bodies’) located in the United Kingdom, a list of all Eligible Bodies can be found at:
Capita Treasury Solutions Limited, trading as Capita Asset Services (Capita), a major provider of advisory services to the UK public sector, intends to use this Agreement to enable its clients to supply/convert, lease, hire and maintain ambulance and specialist vehicles. Capita will provide details of the Agreement and market the Agreement to its clients.
The Agreement is also available to all current and future members of The Procurement Partnership Limited's (TPPL) buying club. A list of members of TPPL can be obtained from http://www.tppl.co.uk/about-us/our-members/.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust incorporated a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the framework was communicated to tenderers. This period allowed unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust before the framework was entered into and to start proceedings where such action was necessary.
Additional information should be requested from the person stated in the contact details in section I.1) of this document.
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly and within the time limits as defined in the Regulations referred to above.


Winner: SECAS Ambulance Vehicle Consortium
Number of bids: 36