Ambulance services

Tender description

Provision of specialised critical care ambulance transport service for the East Midlands region including Coventry and Warwickshire. The associated services fall within the ‘Light Touch Regime (LTR)' governing procurement of health, social, education and other service contracts. NHS England and NHS Improvement and NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU (AGCSU) as its representative, do not hold themselves bound to any part of the Public Contracts Regulations (2015), save those applicable to LTR provisions. AGCSU on behalf of ‘NHS England and NHS Improvement — Specialised Commissioning Team’ is inviting suitably qualified and experienced providers to submit their bids for delivering the specialised critical care ambulance transport service for the East Midlands region including Coventry and Warwickshire. NHS England and NHS Improvement — Specialised Commissioning Team will be the contracting and commissioning authority for the contract resultant from this procurement and the contract will be held between them and the successful bidder. The key objective of this procurement is to select a provider for delivering the specialised critical care ambulance transport services, to support: • neonatal critical care (NCC); • paediatric critical care (PCC); and • extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) services for paediatric and adult service users. It is anticipated that the service provision resultant of this procurement will have an annual agreement value of: GBP 1 750 000 per annum (excluding V.A.T.). Based on 5 + 2 (potential extension) = 7 years contract it is anticipated that the total contract value for this procurement is likely to be around GBP 12 250 000.