Official UK procurement notice
PROVISION OF PATIENT TRANSPORT SERVICES (PTS) FOR THE LEICESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED BOARD (ICB)
Authority: Midlands & Lancashire C S U (NHS & healthcare)·Consortium: 5 public authorities
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe aim of the services is to deliver high quality, dignified and safe patient transport to specific cohorts of patients, ensuring all eligible patients are able to travel in a timely manner, without adverse impact on their medical condition.
The services will be person-centred, and providers will need to be committed to the 'personalisation' of the whole service(s) from the point of first contact when the booking is made, through to pick-up, relationship of the driver with the patient (and escort if applicable), journey to the destination, supporting the patient in preparation for their transport and arrival at home or nominated place of residence or other healthcare setting.
The ICB is also seeking innovation from providers that can maximise the use of information technology and fully utilise technological solutions to deliver service efficiencies to drive quality, safety, sustainability, value for money and improved patient and service user satisfaction.
CPV: Ambulance services · Ambulances · For haemodialysis · For paramedical use · Hospital support services · Outpatient care services · Paramedic vehicles · Paramedical services · Patient-transport vehicles
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published value (£45,586,031 together) · win at most 3 of them · evaluation weights differ by lotLot #1DedicatedRenal DialysisCancelledRenewalPublished value£14,159,741
The Provider is responsible for delivering a dedicated renal dialysis transport provision to all patients who require Dialysis & nocturnal Dialysis and are registered to an LLR GP.
Lot #2TRRIPS (Transfer Rapid Response Interfacility PatientsService) including Bariatric Surgery and Palliative and End of Life patients (PEOL)CancelledRenewalPublished value£5,895,621
This service will provide High Dependency/Blue Light, Bariatric and End of Life out of University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) Emergency Departments (ED) and LLR Healthcare Settings to their destination.
Lot #3NEPTSCancelledRenewalPublished value£25,530,669
The service will provide transport to LLR registered patients., where a medical condition means that the patient would otherwise struggle to safely attend their treatment independently. This will include transport to and from outpatient appointments, discharges, admissions, non-High Dependency transfers, Community Mental Health appointments and therapy groups, including on the day activity and planned.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lots publish different evaluation splits; there is no single procedure weighting.
| Lot | Quality | Price | Social value | Split |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · DedicatedRenal Dialysis | 65% | 25% | 10% | |
| 2 · TRRIPS (Transfer Rapid Response Interfacility PatientsService) including Bariatric Surgery and Palliative and End of Life patients (PEOL) | 65% | 25% | 10% | |
| 3 · NEPTS | 65% | 25% | 10% |
- Price carries 25 points on every lot: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 points.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 23 Sept 2022, 17:36 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Feb 2024, 11:58 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 21 Nov 2022 – …
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-005355- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-036b38Find a Tender
Publisher note: The ICB is also seeking innovation from providers that can maximise the use of information technology and fully utilise technological solutions to deliver service efficiencies to drive quality, safety, sustainability, value for money and improved patient and service user satisfaction. Each contract will be awarded for a term of five (5) years from the Service start date with the possibility of extending the term for up to another 5 years beyond the initial contracted term at the ICB’s discretion. The contract start date is 1st of April 2024. The ICB has set higher and lower budgetary thresholds for each lot, as follows: Full cost envelope (Higher Limit) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Lot 1 £2,657,764 £2,790,653 £2,846,466 £2,903,395 £2,961,463 £14,157,74 Lot 2 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £5,895,621 Lot 3 £4,906,134 £4,906,134 £4,906,134 £4,906,134 £4,906,134 £24,530,669 Total cost envelope 8,743,022 £8,875,911 £8,931,724 £8,988,653 £9,046,721 £46,146,093 Full cost envelope (Lower Limit) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Lot 1 £1,948,075 £2,045,479 £2,086,389 £2,128,117 £2,170,679 £10,378,739 Lot 2 £851,030 £851,030 £851,030 £851,030 £851,030 £4,255,150 Lot 3 £3,646,148 £3,646,148 £3,646,148 £3,646,148 £3,646,148 £18,230,740 Total cost envelope £6,445,253 £6,542,657 £6,583,567 £6,625,295 £6,667,857 £32,864,629 . Any bid(s) received that is(are) over or below the set thresholds will be eliminated from the procurement These services are being treated as Schedule 3 services (healthcare services) and as such are being procured using the Light Touch Regime under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. An open type single stage procedure is being used which is proportionate to the complexity and value of these services. The invitation to tender (ITT) will be available from 23rd September 2022 on the ML CSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00 noon on 21st November 20. Bidder clarifications may be submitted to the ICB (via the ML CSU Bravo portal only) during the procurement process up to 17:00 14th November 2022. We recommend current providers of similar services, providers who may be interested in providing this service, or other stakeholders who may have an interest in providing this to register on the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo (Jaggaer) to register their interest and get access to the ITT and all the related procurement documentation. To register on the Bravo/Jaggaer portal If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. 1) Register on the portal webpage at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). 2) Once registered, candidates must Express their Interest (when the tender is published) by: a) logging into the ML CSU eTendering portal b) selecting response to ITT_938/939/940/941 (project_861 - LLR PTS 2022), c) select Open Access ITT_938/939/940/941 (project_861 - LLR PTS 2022), d) search for and access listing related to this tender and view details, e) click on Express Interest link. 3) Once you have expressed your interest, please access the My ITTs page, where you can view all the documentation (and download if required) and construct your reply in the Bravo online questionnaires, as instructed. The deadline will be detailed in the tender documentation. For technical support in submitting your Expression of Interest or registering on the ‘Bravo Solution’ Electronic Sourcing system please contact the Bravo/Jaggaer helpdesk via Tel: 0800 069 8630 or email: [email protected]. All communications from Bidders (including their Bidder Members) during the period of the Procurement must be directed to MLCSU via the ‘messaging’ area within the ML CSU online procurement portal: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. Strictly no other forms of communication to MLCSU or the ICB
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 7 Nov 2022, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 150 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 21 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
7 Nov 2022 → 1 Apr 2024 · 4 dates- Submission deadline7 Nov 2022, 17:00 GMT
- Bids opened21 Nov 2022, 12:00 GMT
- Notice published19 Feb 2024, 11:58 GMT
- Contract starts1 Apr 2024, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Oct 2022- Buyer details updated27 Oct 2022, 17:46 BST
- Buyer details updated8 Nov 2022, 16:45 GMT
- Status changed to complete19 Feb 2024, 11:58 GMT
- Buyer details updated19 Feb 2024, 11:58 GMT
Published amendments (2 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextAdditional Information · VI.3) | The ICB has set higher and lower budgetary thresholds for each lot, as follows: Full cost envelope (Higher Limit) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total Lot 1 £2,657,764 £2,790,653 £2,846,466 £2,903,395 £2,961,463 £14,157,74 Lot 2 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £1,179,124 £5,895,621 Lot 3 £4,906,134 … | The ICB has refreshed the initial data packs for all Lots and identified a number of patient journeys that has been allocated incorrectly. The following has been changed within the datasets: Lot 1 – An additional 3102 journeys has been added. Lot 3 – 3102 journeys have been removed. These changes have been reflected within the financial envelope thresholds as shown in the revised table hereafter:… | |
| — | TextII.1.4) | The invitation to tender (ITT) will be available from 23rd September 2022 on the ML CSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00 noon on 21st November 2022. Bidder clarifications may be submitted to the ICB (via the ML CSU Bravo portal only) during the procurement process between the 7th October and 17:00 14th November 2022. Year 1 Ye… | During the refresh of the data for Lots 1 and 3 the ICB requested a mini audit of the High Dependency activity that is expected to sit within Lot 2 - TRRIPS. The outcome of this has demonstrated in a shift in the acuity of patients since the original data was gleaned. To ensure that the new service is based on the service needs, as much as possible, the ICB has taken the decision to adjust the ac… |
2 amendments published without a description.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2022-09: 1 release · 23 Sept 2022
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not linked to a lot1 award | |||
| ERS Transition Limited trading as EMED Group Limited | £90,827,087 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 005355-2024-1 · ERS Transition Limited trading as EMED Group Limited
- Signed
- 5 Sept 2023
- Value
- £90,827,087
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5bids · 5 electronic | 3 | — | £68,041,353 – £92,405,333 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
4 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB)Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care BoardContracting authority
- NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (ICB)Contracting authority
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- ERS Transition Ltd (Trading as ERS Medi-cal)Awarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.