Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-02-16
Buyer: NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: Plymouth
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34114122 | 34115200 | 60000000 | 60130000 | 60140000
Estimated value: 5895758 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-03-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Provision of a Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service and Transport Booking service as part of an integrated CCG wide service.
The Department of Health defines non-emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) as the ‘non-urgent, planned, transportation of patients with a medical need for transport to and from a premises providing NHS healthcare and between NHS healthcare providers’.
The NEPTS will cover Plymouth NHS Healthcare sites (to and from) and patients registered with GPs in PL1 to PL9.
The service will predominantly convey eligible patients in multi seated vehicles to cope with a variety of wheelchair carrying options that will only be for medically eligible patients as assessed by the Plymouth Transport Booking Service. The service will cover all mobility types. Essentially stretchers, some wheelchair users and bariatric patients.
Whilst ‘walkers’ are included it is expected that the service (in pursuit of value for public-money and CO2 footprint management) will be mainly delivered in multi-seated vehicles such as existing NEPTS ambulance models and single patient car journeys actively discouraged.
The PTS provider will be required to have a PTS planning and coordinating function that interfaces with the Plymouth Transport Booking Service within the hours the Plymouth Transport Booking Service operates and have a system for the period that the PTS operates that is outside the Plymouth Transport Booking Service operating hours.
It is possible that NHS South Devon & Torbay CCG may wish to be considered as part of the procurement process at a later date. The CCG aims to be in a position to indicate their direction in August 2017, the available spend would be in the region of 117 500 GBP for journeys within the CCG footprint to Plymouth.
— To be responsible for the mini procurements for the journeys that are outside of the main contract (e.g. HDU/paramedic, taxi, wheelchair accessible vehicles, control and restraint, out of hours, out of area journeys and exceptions to the main PTS contract),
— To be the first point of contact for patients and professionals in booking transport and offer advice to those that need further advice and are not eligible for NHS transport. To deal with the requests with no hand backs to other providers,
— To liaise with the ambulance providers and book appropriate transport to the patients need where NHS transport is appropriate,
It is possible that NHS South Devon & Torbay CCG may wish to be considered as part of the procurement process at a later date. The CCG aims to be in a position to indicate their direction in August 2017.
The CCG intends to observe the provisions and 10 day standstill period described in the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
Unsuccessful tenderers and applicants will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the tenderer/application was unsuccessful. Deadline for lodging of appeals should be in accordance with the Regulations.


Award value: 5895758