Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2021-04-09
Buyer: Yorkshire Ambulance Services NHS Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services
Estimated value: 5500000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: YAS 102 2020_21 Integrated Urgent Care Support Framework Contract (This notice is pursuant to PIN notice 2020/S 222-547388). Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) requires a framework contract for providers of clinical validations and clinical advice by telephone as part of the regional NHS111/Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) service. These services are summarised as Lots 1 and 2 both here and below; whilst being fully specified within the ITT documentation.
Lot 1: Emergency Department Validations; is for subcontracted Emergency Department Validation providers.
Lot 2: Clinical Advice Services (CAS); is for clinical advice service providers at either a regional or individual ICS/CCG level for use by either YAS or the 3 Yorkshire and Humber Integrated Care Systems and CCGs as listed within this notice.
Lot 1 is summarised as: emergency department validations; is for the appointment of qualified providers able to provide emergency department validations in support of the Core IUC Service as direct subcontractors and helping to fulfil the regional requirement to clinically validate 50 % of these ED referrals. All services provided under this lot must comply with the requirements of the national integrated urgent care service specification and associated national quality standards https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Integrated-Urgent-Care-Service-Specification.pdf The full Lot 1 specification is within the ITT documentation.
Lot 2: Summarised as: Clinical Advice Services (CAS); is the appointment of qualified providers of clinical advice services to work on either a regional or individual ICS footprint for use by either YAS or the 3 Yorkshire and Humber Integrated Care Systems and respective CCGs as listed. This lot is intended for use by YAS to subcontract clinical advice provision under the Core CAS if required and is also being made available for use by all CCG Commissioners in the Yorkshire and Humber region – enabling CCGs to commission clinical advice services from local CAS providers directly through a framework without the need for a separate local procurement. Call-offs under Lot 2 may therefore be made by either YAS or CCGs listed below: South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System NHS Barnsley CCG (02P) NHS Bassetlaw CCG (02Q) NHS Doncaster CCG (02X) NHS Rotherham CCG (03L) NHS Sheffield CCG (03N) West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership NHS Bradford District and Craven (036J) NHS Leeds CCG (15F) NHS Calderdale CCG (02T) NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG (03A) NHS North Kirklees CCG (03J) NHS Wakefield CCG (03R) Humber, Coast and Vale STP NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG (02Y) NHS Hull CCG (03F) NHS North Lincolnshire CCG (03K) NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG (03H) NHS Vale of York CCG (03Q) NHS North Yorkshire CCG (42D) South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System NHS Barnsley CCG (02P) NHS Bassetlaw CCG (02Q) NHS Doncaster CCG (02X) NHS Rotherham CCG (03L) NHS Sheffield CCG (03N) West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership NHS Bradford District and Craven (036J) NHS Leeds CCG (15F) NHS Calderdale CCG (02T) NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG (03A) NHS North Kirklees CCG (03J) NHS Wakefield CCG (03R) Humber, Coast and Vale STP NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG (02Y) NHS Hull CCG (03F) NHS North Lincolnshire CCG (03K) NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG (03H) NHS Vale of York CCG (03Q) NHS North Yorkshire CCG (42D) The full specification is within the ITT documentation.
This was a procurement process for services categorised as social and other specific services for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the 'Regulations') which therefore fall within the ‘Light Touch Regime’ (LTR) governing the procurement of health, social, education, and other service contracts. Neither reference to ‘the Open Procedure’, ‘ITT’, ‘SQ’ the use of the term ‘tender process’ nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the regulations, save those applicable to LTR provisions. The Trust reserved the right to vary the process as required and as permitted.


Winner: Vocare Ltd
Award value: 5500000
Number of bids: 1