Official UK procurement notice
Prior Information Notice for the Procurement of Specialised Critical Care Ambulance Transfer Services in the East Midlands and Adult Critical Care Ambulance Transfers Services in the West Midlands
Authority: The NHS Commissioning Board operating as NHS England (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU), on behalf of the NHS England/Improvement – Regional Specialised Commissioning Team (Midlands) (here onwards known as the commissioner) would like to notify all potential providers about the upcoming opportunity to bid for Specialised Critical Care Ambulance Transfer Services in the East Midlands and Adult Critical Care Ambulance Transfers Services in the West Midlands .
CPV: Ambulance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Specialised Critical Care Ambulance Transfer Services in the East Midlands and Adult…Planned
Specialised Critical Care Ambulance Transfer Services in the East Midlands and Adult Critical Care Ambulance Transfers Services in the West Midlands.
The critical care ambulance vehicle specification has been developed to deliver a standard critical care ambulance design that can be utilised by all critical care transfer services in England. The aim is to provide a vehicle that can be flexible to meet the critical care patient requirements across all age groups from neonatal, paediatric and adult. The vehicle will be able to accommodate all ages of patients from Neonates, Paediatric Critical Care, Adult Critical Care, ECMO and Bariatric patients.
The aim of the service is to provide a high quality, efficient, timely, responsive specialised critical care ambulance transport service to support the clinical delivery of time critical neonatal care, paediatric critical care and ECMO services.
The indicative procurement timetable can be found below, subject to change:
Publication of tender – w/c 17.05.2021
Deadline for submissions – w/c 28.06.2021
Evaluation period – w/c 28.06.2021 – w/c 30.08.2021
Award and standstill period – w/c 06.09.2021 – w/c 20.09.2021
Contract award and mobilisation – w/c 20.09.2021 – 31.03.2022
Service commencement – 01.04.2022
Providers interested in this opportunity will need to ensure they are registered on Contracts Finder, Find a Tender Service and/or the EU Supply procurement portal, in order to be notified when this opportunity goes live.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 31 Mar 2021, 17:36 BST
- Last source update
- 31 Mar 2021, 17:36 BST
- Authority reference
AG20057- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-006738- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02a1c3Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is purely a market engagement exercise; any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when published. Any communication received during the market analysis exercise will not be taken into account in any future evaluation process as part of the formal procurement process.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
31 Mar 2021 → 17 May 2021 · 2 dates- Notice published31 Mar 2021, 17:36 BST
- Tender notice expected17 May 2021, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.