NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU has been working on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB, to award a contract for an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Programme for Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB for a period of 3 years with a 2 years optional extension.
Additional information:
This contract is for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public
Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Accordingly, the contracting
authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement
Regimes
Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations.
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which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. The Contracting Authority does not
bind itself to accept any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part.
The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or
tenderer in connection with the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of
the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority
reserves the right to change these.
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received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.
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authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual
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redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) are publishing on behalf of NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), NHS Greater Manchester ICB, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB and NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB who have awarded contracts for the provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) to cover Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cumbria delivering:
- Planned Patient Transport - for routine outpatient appointments
- Unplanned Patient Transport - for discharges / short notice bookings, and
- Enhanced Priority Service Transport - for time critical transport for patients attending for haemodialysis or oncology treatments.
This contract award notice is for the direct award of contracts with the existing provider, North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) for a period of 12 months from 1st April 2023 to the 31st March 2024.
The current NEPTS contracts were originally procured by competitive tender. There was then a delay in the recommissioning of these services due to the COVID-19 pandemic however work is now underway to develop a North West strategic approach to patient transport being commissioned by the newly formed ICBs that will meet both local and national requirements. To allow the timescales to complete this work and reprocure the service an extension of 12 months is required with the existing provider.
A review of the North West specifications is required to ensure it meets the evolving needs of the ICBs. In addition the National Review of NEPTS produced its final report on patient eligibility criteria in May 2022. This has broadened the criteria under which patients are able to access NHS funded transport and has required additional work on the specifications. The National Review has produced, and continues to produce, additional guidance to be adopted which will impact the North West specifications.
The rationale for the 12 month extension with the existing provider is that it will maintain the continuity of service until such time as a new service can be commissioned that will meet local requirements and incorporate any new national requirements. The extension is only a temporary arrangement to allow the appropriate timescales to re-procure the service (which have previously been delayed due to the pandemic and therefore events that were unforeseeable to the commissioners).
The commissioners intend to engage with the provider market to support the development of the new North West specifications and a provider engagement event will be advertised via a PIN.
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The ICB has re-designed the way Patient Transport Services are specified in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. They were looking for stand-alone services for specific cohorts of patients which have varying needs. The re-procurement was split into 3 lots so 3 separate contracts could have been awarded with bidders able to bid for all of the lots or any combination of lots. For the avoidance of doubt each bid was scored on their individual merit. Thus, it was possible that contracts could have been issued to a single provider, and indeed they have.
The lots are split as follows:
Lot 1 - Specialist Transport And Non-planned (STAN) - High Dependency, Bariatric, End of Life, Discharges, Ambulatory Care Pathway transport, and Interfacility transfers transport services.
Lot 2 - Planned Patients Transport Service (PPTS) - Renal Dialysis, Outpatients, and Admissions patient transport service.
Lot 3 - Booking and Eligibility Centre - a call centre function that provides telephony access to the Patient Transport service, completing Eligibility Assessments, Bookings and Customer Service to all.
The aim of the services is to deliver high quality, dignified and safe patient transport to specific cohorts of patients, ensuring all services users are assessed robustly and consistently, and that eligible patients are able to travel in a timely manner, without adverse impact on their medical condition.
The services will be person-centred, and providers will need to be committed to the 'personalisation' of the whole service(s) from the point of first contact when the booking is requested, through to pick-up, relationship of the driver with the patient (and escort if applicable), journey to the destination, supporting the patient in preparation for their transport and arrival at home or nominated place of residence or other healthcare setting.
The ICB is also seeking innovation from providers that can maximise the use of information technology and fully utilise technological solutions to deliver service efficiencies to drive quality, safety, sustainability, value for money and improved patient and service user satisfaction.
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CALL-OFF LOT(S):
Lot 1 - Nursing and Midwifery
Lot 3 -Allied Health Professionals (AHP), Health Science Services (HSS}, & Emergency Services.
Lot 4 - - Social Care Staffing
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