Ambulance services

Tender description

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (the ‘Authority’) is the lead Authority, supported with South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS), undertaking the EU competitive procurement Restricted Procedure, to create a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the Provision of A&E Private Ambulance Services. This document contains important information about the procurement process. The aim is to establish a DPS of outsourced suppliers capable of providing an A&E Private Ambulance Service and to give assurance that robust policy and procedures will be embedded with those suppliers invited to join the DPS to deliver where required, nationally and locally quality of patient care and safety. The high level service level of both Trusts (the Authority(s)) is provided in the Specification of Requirements (SOR) and the Specific and General NHS Terms and Conditions set out in Schedules 1 — 10. 1.1 North (Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire). 1.2 South (Leicestershire / Northamptonshire). 1.3 East (Lincolnshire). 2.1 North/North: Bletchley; Milton Keynes; Stoke Mandeville. 2.2 North/East: Amersham, High Wycombe, Maidenhead, Wexham, Windsor. 2.3 North/West: Adderbury; Didcot; Kidlington; Oxford. 2.4 North/South: Newbury; Bracknell; Reading. 2.5 South/North: Alton; Andover; Basingstoke. 2.6 South/East: North Harbour; Petersfield. 2.7 South/West: Lymington; Hythe; Ringwood. 2.8 South/South: Nursling; Hightown. 3.1 East — Norfolk; Suffolk; Essex. 3.2 West — Cambridgeshire; Bedfordshire; Herefordshire. 4.1 — Birmingham & Black Country. 4.2 — Hereford & Worcester. 4.3 — Coventry & Warwick. 4.4 — Staffordshire. 4.5 — Shropshire. North East. Yorkshire Region. 7.1 Greater Manchester. 7.2 Lancashire & Cumbria. 7.3 Cheshire & Merseyside. South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. South East Coast. Wales. Adhoc or planned repatriation transfer of patients from one town, city to another town or city location within England and Wales.