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

Concepts

• ambulance services
• care ambulance transfers services
• leicester
• east midlands
• critical care ambulance vehicle specification
• west midlands
• critical care ambulance transfer services
• greater east midlands
• critical care
• procurement of specialised critical care ambulance transfer services

Location

Leicester

Description

NHS 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 .

Total Quantity or Scope

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.

CPV Codes

• 85143000 - Ambulance services

Indicators

Other Information

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.