Official UK procurement notice
NHS BNSSG - Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services
Authority: NHS Bristol North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to inform the market of NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Integrated Care Board's (the Commissioner), intention to recommission Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services.
The Commissioner would like to communicate a planned market engagement event and request expressions of interest for this.
The service will provide transport for eligible BNSSG patients. Full details on eligibility are provided in section II.2.4 below.
The service will provide transport between their places of residence, community and acute settings in reasonable time and comfort without detriment to their medical condition for secondary care treatment. This shall include secondary care services provided in a primary care setting.
The geographical scope of this contract includes the transport of all BNSSG patients to points of NHS care.
Planned Transport specifically covers pre-booked journeys to and from healthcare booked prior to 17:00 the day before transport.
Non urgent patient transport should be seen as part of an integrated programme of care and a non-emergency patient is one who, whilst requiring treatment, does not require an immediate or urgent response.
The estimated budget for this service is currently £5,331,710 per annum. This will be subject to annual inflationary uplift which will be detailed in the Invitation to Tender documentation. The expected contract term is likely be for 5 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years, making an estimated contract value of £26,658,550 over the initial 5-year term. If the 2-year extension option is utilised the estimated total contract value is £37,321,970. These figures do not include the annual inflationary uplift.
The new contract will commence on 1st April 2026.
TUPE may apply to this process.
It is the Commissioners intention to hold a market engagement event on Wednesday 29th January 2025 via MSTeams, with all parties who have registered their interest. An invitation to this in person event will be issued directly to you once you have registered on the Atamis portal.
The deadline to register your interest is 12:00 Friday 17th January 2025.
This exercise is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner.
CPV: Ambulance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Dec 2024, 16:32 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Dec 2024, 16:32 GMT
- Authority reference
C324784 / WA17406- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-041064- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c9cfFind a Tender
Publisher note: This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit the Authority or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. The Authority will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the relevant information and market engagement questionnaire, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. You will find the project titled: NHS BNSSG - Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services with the Atamis reference C324784. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit your expression of interest using the correspondence function within Atamis. It is the Commissioners intention to hold a market engagement event on Wednesday 29th January 2025 via MSTeams, with all parties who have registered their interest. An invitation to this in person event will be issued directly to you once you have registered on the Atamis portal. The intention is to award a contract using the competitive process. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) prior information notice. The contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Dec 2024 → 4 Apr 2025 · 2 dates- Notice published19 Dec 2024, 16:32 GMT
- Tender notice expected4 Apr 2025, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Official documents & specifications
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