Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-06-14
Buyer: North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 1355920 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This is a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice and is intended to provide notice of North East Essex CCG's intention to award a contract for the provision of a Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officer Service for North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.
This is a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice and is intended to provide notice of North East Essex CCG's intention to award a contract to East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) for the provision of a Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officer (HALO) Service for North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group. The service will commence on 1.4.2019 and end on 31.3.2021.
The HALO role is the link between the ambulance service and the local acute hospital and covers the following:
— supporting the hospital to manage patient flow, maximise resource availability and ensure patient safety,
— educating and challenging ambulance crews around appropriateness of conveyances to ED and available admission avoidance pathways,
— identification of frail patients and those ‘fit to sit’ in order to fast track to the ambulatory pathway and /or fast track to home pathway,
The staff providing the service are qualified paramedics and whilst it is hoped that in the future the local acute hospital may be able to staff the role with a similar clinician from their own staff, the clinical experience/expertise and skills required for the role are not present or available at this time within existing hospital staffing. In order for the role to be effective and serve as a point of integration between the hospital and EEAST, the staff covering the role need to be EEAST paramedics.
The HALO role is the link between the ambulance service and the local acute hospital and covers the following:
— supporting the hospital to manage patient flow, maximise resource availability and ensure patient safety,
— educating and challenging ambulance crews around appropriateness of conveyances to ED and available admission avoidance pathways,
— identification of frail patients and those ‘fit to sit’ in order to fast track to the ambulatory pathway and/or fast track to home pathway,
The staff providing the service are qualified paramedics and whilst it is hoped that in the future the hospital may be able to staff the role with a similar clinician from their own staff, the clinical experience/expertise and skills required for the role are not present or available at this time within existing hospital staffing. In order for the role to be effective and serve as a point of integration between the hospital and EEAST, the staff covering the role need to be EEAST paramedics. Competition is therefore absent for technical reasons, and the CCG is therefore of the view that it is entitled to award the contract without prior publication in the OJEU.
The service to which this procurement relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’). As such, the Contracting Authority does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.


Winner: East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST)
Award value: 1355920