Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS)

Concepts

• emergency patient transport services
• nepts
• non-emergency patient transport services
• health and social work
• winchester
• patient transport services
• eligible patients
• essential transfer of eligible patients
• transportation services
• healthcare services

Location

Winchester

Description

The delivery of a range of non-emergency patient transport services (NE PTS) for eligible patients, including a call handling, coordination and management service. for the purpose of this tender, the requirement will be split into two (2) lots and bidders are at liberty to bid for one or both lots. Lot 1 will be for the call handling, coordination and management service and lot 2 for the transportation services. The NE PTS service is for essential transfer of eligible patients between the patient’s domicile, hospitals, community settings or other treatment centres including private treatment centres for patients referred for NHS treatments, consultations or procedures. This covers a range of vehicles and levels of care including staff on board who range from volunteer drivers, to ambulance vehicles staffed with health care professionals. The patients in scope for this requirement are from the following clinical commissioning groups: • NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG; • NHS North Hampshire CCG; • NHS Portsmouth City CCG; • NHS Southampton City CCG; • NHS West Hampshire CCG; • NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG; and • NHS Isle of Wight CCG. For clarification, patients attending Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust sites are expected to come into contract from 2016. For the avoidance of doubt this procurement will exclude the following for whom contracts already exist: • NHS Isle of Wight CCG patients attending healthcare services on the Isle of Wight; • NHS North East Hampshire CCG patients; • Patients from NHS North Hampshire CCG; and • NHS South East Hampshire CCG attending Surrey Hospitals. For further avoidance of doubt, generic primary care services do not form part of this procurement.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 79512000 - Call centre
• 85100000 - Health services
• 34114122 - Patient-transport vehicles

Indicators

• Contract modified due to unforeseen circumstances.

Legal Justification

The unprecedented impact, prolonged continuation of the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing escalation of pressures on all healthcare resources has brought about a number of new and significant risks that could not have been foreseen and which have further delayed the Commissioners' detailed preparation for a full procurement for the non- emergency patient transport services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight, under Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.)(EU Exit) Regulations 2020. This has given rise to an urgent need for the continuation of the provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services, including Call Handling, Coordination and Management Services (Lots 1 and 2), beyond the previously advertised contract duration – previous OJEU Reference 2020/S 140-345707. To view a copy of the supporting justification paper and service specification please log on to the InTend Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning (F5771a)