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Non Emergency Patient Transport Service

Patient-transport vehicles
Special-purpose road passenger-transport services
South West (UKK4)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group: "Non Emergency Patient Transport Service". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNHS Devon Clinical Commissioning GroupScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
2Bids / Report
50% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 4 active published awards; 4 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published1 Jun 2022, 16:42 BST
Last source update1 Jun 2022, 16:42 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationPatient-transport vehicles, Special-purpose road passenger-transport services
Delivery area
South West (UKK4)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0342d9
What is being bought
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 in Devon (except Torbay)
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    1 Jun 2022, 16:42 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    1 Jun 2022, 16:42 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    1 Jun 2022, 16:42 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group has awarded a contract for Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) for eligible patients within the local healthcare population. The NEPTS is a 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 in Devon (except Torbay).
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    1 Jun 2022, 16:42 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 24 May 2022, 00:00 BST · £12,194,050
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
First Care Ambulance Service
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Provision of Non Emergency Patient Transport Service
£12,194,050 · signed 24 May 2022, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group

Contracting authority GB-FTS-2446
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  • NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group
    buyer

    County Hall, Topsham Road, Exeter, UKK4, EX2 4QD
    Scwcsu.clinical.procurement@nhs.net

  • First Care Ambulance Service
    supplier

    Ingleside, Brentor,, Tavistock, UKK4, PL19 0NG

  • High Court of Justice
    reviewBody

    Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Documents (0)
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Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe award decision has been determined as First Care Ambulance Service Ltd as the only provider identified that is capable of supplying the services required for the commissioner within the imposed timeframe. Agreement has been reached with First Care Ambulance Services and this negotiated procedure without prior publication has been followed and justified under regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) 'competition is absent for technical reasons' has been applied where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists.