Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
QRL
Eastleigh
UK
Contact person: Emily Harwood
E-mail: Emily.Harwood@soeprocurement.nhs.uk
NUTS: UKJ3
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.hantsiow.icb.nhs.uk/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Secure Mental Health Transport Services
Reference number: F16241
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85143000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
NHS 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.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
10 500 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKJ3
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
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).
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Social Value
/ Weighting: 10
Quality criterion: Quality and Innovation
/ Weighting: 52
Quality criterion: Integration and Collaboration
/ Weighting: 10
Quality criterion: Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice
/ Weighting: 8
Price
/ Weighting:
20
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The ICB are seeking to award a 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.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2024/S 000-015879
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
24/09/2024
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 9
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 9
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Definitive PSA Ltd
05989881
East Grinstead
UK
NUTS: UKJ2
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 10 285 171.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
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.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
27/09/2024