Awarded contract

Non-Emergency Patient Transport - NHS Shropshire CCG / NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG

Details

Duration
5 years
Published
11 February 2021

Tender description

NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group, NHS Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group and Powys Teaching Health Board jointly wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest for the provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) for eligible patients within the local healthcare population. A non-emergency transport service is provided for patients, both adults and children, who have a medical condition which prevents them from using other forms of transport to travel to and from healthcare appointments. It is not for people who require transport for financial or social reasons, or for those requiring an immediate or emergency response. The Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service will provide 24/7, 365 days per year transportation services to patients assessed as eligible for the service. Please refer to the tender documents for the full details. The CCG's are looking to appoint a service provider or consortium to deliver this service for a period of 5 years with an optional 24 months extension available. The successful provider will be required to sign the prevailing NHS Standard Contract for the service and accept all terms and conditions. Please note this contract will service the newly created/merged organisations (previously) NHS Shropshire CCG and NHS Telford & Wrekin CCG, which are due to create a new organisation from the 1st April 2021.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published11 February 2021
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date1 October 2021
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2026in 4 days

About the buyer

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is an NHS commissioning support unit, a healthcare body with its own healthcare and non-clinical procurement teams. The healthcare procurement team takes NHS commissioners from market research through bid evaluation to contract award. Clinical services are procured under the Provider Selection Regime, including Direct Award C, competitive and Most Suitable Provider processes. Goods and services are bought through tenders and mini-competitions run by senior procurement managers. Suppliers register and respond on the unit's own eSourcing portal. Purchasing processes have held the CIPS Procurement Excellence Standard since 2019.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU's contract awards have been in software and information systems, IT services and communications equipment.

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