Contract

NHSE963 - Adult Critical Care Transfer Service

  • NHS England - North East and Yorkshire

F21: Social and other specific services – public contracts (contract award notice)

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-023813

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03eb29

Published 30 July 2024, 4:03pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS England - North East and Yorkshire

West Offices, Station Rise.

York

YO1 6GA

Email

necsu.neprocurement@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.england.nhs.uk/north-east-yorkshire/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Health


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

NHSE963 - Adult Critical Care Transfer Service

Reference number

NHSE963

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85100000 - Health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service and worked for and on behalf of NHS England - North East and Yorkshire - Specialised Commissioning (the Contracting Authority), to commission an Adult Critical Care Transfer Service to be delivered across the Yorkshire and Humber Region.

The contract term is for a period of 5 years, commencing on 01 October 2024.

The closing date for submission of tenders was 12 noon on Friday 24 May 2024.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service who worked for and on behalf of NHS England - North East and Yorkshire - Specialised Commissioning (the Contracting Authority), to commission an Adult Critical Care Transfer Service to be delivered across the Yorkshire and Humber Region.

The contract term is for a period of 5 years, commencing on 01 October 2024.

The closing date for submission of tenders was 12 noon on Friday 24 May 2024.

Additional information

Providers were advised that the "Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006" as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulation 2014" (TUPE) may apply to this contract. Bidders were advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services.

NECS utilised an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential bidders. Accordingly, no hard copy documents were issued to potential bidders and all communications with NECS, including bid submissions, were conducted via the Atamis portal at: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. It is free to register on the portal and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection. Providers were advised that if they had any queries or problems registering on the portal; they should contact the Atamis helpdesk via:

Support-health@Atamis.co.uk or phone number 0800 9956035

The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 08.00 am - 06.00 pm

Tender documentation was available on the e-tendering site from 10 April 2024.

Legal, economic, financial, and technical information

Conditions for participation

Objective rules and criteria for participation

Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, Contracting Authorities must consider:

(a) How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the area where they exercise their functions; and

(b) How, in conducting the process of procurement, they might act with a view to securing that improvement. Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to "economic, social, and environmental well-being".

The basic principles of the Open Procedure will be followed for this procurement to test the capability, capacity, and technical competence of bidders in accordance with The Light Touch Rules Regime, Regulations 74 to 77 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No102) (for Health, Social, Education, and certain other Service Contracts).


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Form of procedure

Open procedure

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2024/S 000-011550


Section five. Award of contract

Contract No

NHSE963 - Adult Critical Care Transfer Service

Lot No

NHSE963 - Adult Critical Care Transfer Service

Title

NHSE963 - Adult Critical Care Transfer Service

A contract/lot is awarded: No

five.1) Information on non-award

The contract/lot is not awarded

No tenders or requests to participate were received or all were rejected