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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT

Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group - NEPTS Voluntary Car and Taxi Services

Transport EquipmentCPV 34000000 34100000 34110000 34114000
Value£3.1m
Awarded9 Dec 2021
Published9 Nov 2021
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£3.1mtotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£3.4m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Somerset CCG is to award a contract to Somerset County Council -Transporting Somerset (SCCTS) to source and provide medical need Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services.

It requires the use of volunteer car and taxi services as well as the provision of limited support for the social need Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme.

The commissioners undertook a thorough market analysis to review different operating models against market offerings for Somerset requirements.

The outcome of which concluded that Somerset County Council offered the best financial value and functionality in line with the long-term plan and the ongoing development of the Somerset Integrated Care System of which Somerset County Council is a key partner.

SCCTS provides support across both the health and social care sectors and delivers significant efficiencies through the joined up working arrangement between health and the local authority.

The contract operates on a cost recovery basis only with the fleet of volunteer drivers prioritised over the taxi operators.

Where journeys are allocated to taxi companies, Somerset County Council use a combination of a dynamic purchasing system and regular market price testing to ensure best value for money against requirements.

The new contract period is 1st April 2022 - 31st March2023 and will include the option to extend for up to a further year (to 31st March 2024) at an annualised contract value of circa £1,560k.

The services are deemed to be subject to the full regime of current procurement legislation and governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

The Commissioner has voluntarily advertised this notice of intention to award this contract to reach as wide an audience as possible and to promote transparency and in line with regulation 32(2)(b)(ii).

The Commissioner is firmly of the view that competition is absent for technical reasons, and that the organisation listed above is the only provider capable of meeting the CCG's needs with its cost-effective journey allocation process and resourcing model.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Somerset CCG is to award a contract

Somerset CCG is to award a contract to Somerset County Council -Transporting Somerset (SCCTS) to source and provide medical need Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services.

02

It requires the use of volunteer car

It requires the use of volunteer car and taxi services as well as the provision of limited support for the social need Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme.

03

The outcome of which concluded that Somerset

The outcome of which concluded that Somerset County Council offered the best financial value and functionality in line with the long-term plan and the ongoing development of the Somerset Integrated Care System of which Somerset County Council is a key partner.

04

SCCTS provides support across both the health

SCCTS provides support across both the health and social care sectors and delivers significant efficiencies through the joined up working arrangement between health and the local authority.

05

Where journeys are allocated to taxi companies

Where journeys are allocated to taxi companies, Somerset County Council use a combination of a dynamic purchasing system and regular market price testing to ensure best value for money against requirements.

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OCID
1891dc91-d268-4d68-a72e-5644b66c0367
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
11X-RO-15-13264
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