Official UK procurement notice
Secure Mental Health Transport Services
Authority: NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS 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.
CPV: Ambulance services · Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board are intention to award a…AwardedRenewalPublished value£10,500,000
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).
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- Quality and Innovation: 52%
- Integration and Collaboration: 10%
- Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice: 8%
- price: 20%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (5)
- Social Value: 10
- Quality and Innovation: 52
- Integration and Collaboration: 10
- Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice: 8
- Price: 20
- Suitability
Please see the procurement documents for further details.
- Price carries 20 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 20 May 2024, 15:26 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Oct 2024, 17:17 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 26 Jun 2024 – …
- Authority reference
F16241- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-033848- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0468f4Find a Tender
Publisher note: 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.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 26 Jun 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 26 Jun 2024, 12:01 BST
Timeline
26 Jun 2024 → 18 Oct 2024 · 3 dates- Submission deadline26 Jun 2024, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened26 Jun 2024, 12:01 BST
- Notice published18 Oct 2024, 17:17 BST
Notice history
1 event · 3 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete27 Sept 2024, 16:13 BST
Published amendments (1)
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under 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. This contract has now been formally awarded using the competitive process. The have awarded the co…
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Definitive PSA LtdSME | £10,285,171 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 031049-2024-1 · Definitive PSA LtdSME
- Signed
- 24 Sept 2024
- Value
- £10,285,171
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9bids · 9 electronic | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS EnglandReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Definitive PSA LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria