Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-29
Buyer: Ambulance Radio Programme
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72000000 | 79411000
Estimated value: 76500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The Ambulance Radio Programme ('ARP') on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the 'Authority') is seeking to procure a supplier to fulfil the role of a service partner to support the Authority projects delivering the constituent programmes (refer to II.2.4) and that can scale to support future Authority initiatives and product offerings. The Authority is looking to partner with a provider who can demonstrate capabilities in ‘product management’ — not simply providing ‘service desk’ and ‘Service Management’ functions — who can demonstrate an ability to integrate elements of discrete project deliverables as ‘service offerings’ to service recipients. The scope will also involve environment management and ad-hoc services, as more particularly described in this service requirements.
• CRS: the delivery of the new integrated communications and control system to the English Ambulance Trusts, the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust and the Scottish Ambulance Service. The contract for the delivery of CRS was awarded to Frequentis in May 2017.
• MDVS: the delivering of the new NMA to the English Ambulance Trusts (and potentially the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust and/or the Scottish Ambulance Service, if those bodies elect to participate in the MDVS programme). The scope of the MDVS programme also includes the delivery of Vehicle Hardware to run the NMA and the replacement of TETRA radio terminals with devices that can connect to the ESN.
• HEMS: the core function of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Air Ambulance is to deliver front line medical care to patients in the pre-hospital environment. All HEMS Air Ambulances in England are operated by charities and receive their tasking via Service Recipient control rooms under terms of individual memorandums of understanding which are in place. The supplier shall provide the following services as detailed in the service requirements.
Please refer to the selection questionnaire guidance. The Authority will evaluate responses to the SQ and select the 5 highest ranking bidders who will be issued with an ISIT unless any other bidders are within half a percentage point (0,50 %) of the fifth placed bidder. In this case, these bidders will also be shortlisted to the next stage of the tender process.
The initial term of the contract is 5 years. The Authority may (at its sole discretion) extend the Initial term by one or more extension periods by giving the supplier at least sixty (60) Working Days' notice before the end of the initial term or beyond (up to a maximum of 2 years). From the effective date and in accordance with the implementation plan, the supplier shall provide the services to each of the English Ambulance Trusts and any successor bodies thereto that perform any of the functions previously performed by any of the foregoing bodies:
At any time during this Agreement, the Authority is entitled to require the supplier on written notice to provide (and on receipt of such written notice, the supplier shall provide) the services (all or part thereof) to other organisations and any successor bodies thereto that perform any of the functions previously performed by any of the foregoing organisations, including:
(f) the law enforcement organisations set out in the list located at URL: https://www.police.uk/forces/ or any replacement or successor URL; and
(g) the fire and rescue organisations set out in the list located at URL: https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Fire-and-Rescue-Services or any replacement or successor URL.
Please refer to selection questionnaire: Part 2: Exclusion grounds (ground for mandatory exclusion and grounds for discretionary exclusion); Part 3: Selection questionnaire.
The Authority envisages that by the end of the term of the agreement the scope of this procurement may have broadened resulting in an estimated total contract value range of GBP 20 000 000 to GBP 76 500 000. This range includes any additional future services that may be called off under the agreement by the service recipients.
1) estimated contract value for the service partner services as set out in the agreement to all English Ambulance Trusts is GBP 20 000 000 (cumulative cost GBP 20 000 000);
2) estimated value for the optional addition of services as set out in the agreement to the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust and the Scottish Ambulance Service is GBP 6 500 000 (cumulative cost by adding the cost for contract type numbered 1 and 2 together is GBP 26 500 000);
3) estimated value for the optional addition of the delivery of services and all the associated services as set out in the agreement to other service recipients and organisations set out in the procurement documents is GBP 30 000 000 (cumulative cost by adding the cost for contract type numbered 1, 2 and 3 together is GBP 56 500 000);

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to selection questionnaire: Part 2: Exclusion grounds (ground for mandatory exclusion and grounds for discretionary exclusion); Part 3: Selection questionnaire.

Award value: 76500000