Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-01
Buyer: NHS West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: Norfolk
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 34114122 | 60120000 | 60130000 | 85100000: Health services | 85142000
Estimated value: 47936000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-07-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, NHS West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group are issuing this invitation to tender in connection with the competitive procurement of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services. The scope of the service will include assessment of eligibility, call handling, booking and the provision of safe non-emergency patient transport to eligible patients. The commissioners are looking to establish a contract for five (5) years with a potential extension of up to two (2) years. The services which are the subject of this notice will be awarded under 2 contracts, one for the delivery of services within the Great Yarmouth and Waveney locality and one for Ipswich, east Suffolk and west Suffolk locality.
The contract would cover journeys involving eligible patients; which could include journeys within, in to or out of this locality.
The aim of this procurement is to establish non-emergency patient transport services across the two localities of; locality 1 — Ipswich, east Suffolk and west Suffolk, and locality 2 — Great Yarmouth and Waveney. The tender exercise will result in two contracts being awarded; one for each locality.
Locality 1 which covers Ipswich, east Suffolk and west Suffolk will be commissioned by NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group,NHS West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust and West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
Locality 2 which covers Great Yarmouth and Waveney will be commissioned by NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group.
Further information regarding the contents of the procurement can be found within the procurement documentation which is available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
The procurement will be undertaken using an Open Process and the eligibility and award criteria are outlined within the procurement documentation at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
Depending on Contract extensions and depending on Service reviews, likely dates for the renewal process to commence will be either be 2022 or 2023.
An option to extend for an additional 24 months. The aforementioned estimated contract value is for the 5+2 and consists of an estimation of the total value of both contracts which are the subject of this procurement.
Full details of the commissioner's requirements are set out in the documentation which is available by registering for free at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/westsuffolkcommissioning/aspx/Home
The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award contract/s and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award contract/s in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in participating in this procurement process, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

Eligibility requirements: Selection and award criteria as stated in the procurement documents.

Award value: 47936000