Secure Mental Health Transport Services

Concepts

• ambulance services
• eastleigh
• mental health transport services
• secure mental health transport services
• existing patient transport service provisions
• mental health needs
• mental health professionals
• secure transport
• transport
• the mental health act

Location

Hampshire and Isle of Wight:

Description

NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board are intending to award a contract for Secure Mental Health Transport Services to Secure 24 (Trading as Definitive PSA ltd) for a period of 3 years from 1st February 2025 to 21st January 2028, with the option to extend for a further 2 years to 31st January 2030.

Total Quantity or Scope

NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board are intention to award a contract for Secure Mental Health Transport Services. The service will provide safe and effective secure transport for individuals with mental health needs (under various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983), and a support and observation (sitting) staff service for patients during detention or stay in a Place of Safety or acute hospital emergency department (ED) under this legal framework - namely Section 136 of the Mental Health Act. This service will not include transport of individuals with mental health needs where secure transport is not required as this is provided by existing patient transport service provisions. To ensure effective and timely responses the service shall provide a single point of contact number for police officers and mental health professionals to call to arrange transport to the nearest appropriate Place of Safety (PoS) or other location as requested. The service will operate in an area of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB) which covers the places of North and Mid Hampshire, South West Hampshire, South East Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth and Isle of Wight. The population for the ICB is 1.9 million. The service will operate in and out of Hampshire. The ICB are intending to award the contract for 3 years from 1st February 2025 to 21st January 2028, with the option to extend for a further 2 years to 31st January 2030. This notice is an intention to award a contract under the competitive process (Provider Selection Regime - PSR). The lifetime value of the award is £10,285,171 excluding VAT. This is an existing service which has been retendered, via the competitive process under PSR. The ICB intends to award the service to a new provider, Secure 24 (Trading as Definitive PSA ltd).

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The ICB are seeking to award a contract for 3 years from 1st February 2025 to 21st January 2028, with the option to extend for a further 2 years to 31st January 2030.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85143000 - Ambulance services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on Wednesday 9th October 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award a contract under the competitive process of the PSR. Please send any written representations to:- Keith.Myhill@soeprocurement.nhs.uk The award was ratified by attendees of the following HIOW ICB Committees:- - HIOW ICB Procurement Group - 10th September 2024 - HIOW Executive Committee - 24th September 2024 All members of the project group were required to complete conflict of interest forms, and no conflicts of interest were declared. No conflicts of interest were declared as part of the decision making groups listed above. The key criteria were weighted as detailed in this notice. The successful provider met the basic criteria and received the highest score following evaluation of the key criteria, including value.