Provision of Private Ambulance Services
Health Service Executive (HSE)
The HSE invites responses from suitably qualified organisations for appointment to a framework agreement for private ambulance services providing a high-quality transport service for public HSE patients; strictly on an if and when required basis (as deemed by the HSE).
DeadlineThe time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-02-01. The procurement was published on 2020-12-21.
Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2020-12-21 | Contract notice |
| 2021-10-26 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2020-12-21)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Ambulance services
Reference number: Hse
Short description:
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Ambulance services 📦
Additional CPV: Health services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Health Service Executive (HSE)
Postal address: Head Office, Millennium Park
Postal town: Naas
Contact
Internet address: http://www.hse.ie 🌏
E-mail: claudia.manning@hse.ie 📧
Phone: +353 214923053 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180250&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180250&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-21 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-02-01 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 251-630869
OJ-S issue: 251
Additional information
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 40 000 000 EUR 💰
Information about lots: Please see tender documentation for details.
Title of the lot: Lot 1: Ireland East — Low Acuity
Lot number: 1
Short description: Please see tender documentation for details.
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals: Please see tender documentation for details.
Title of the lot: Lot 2 - Ireland East - medium acuity
Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Lot 3 - RCSI - low acuity
Lot number: 3
Title of the lot: Lot 4 - RCSI - medium acuity
Lot number: 4
Title of the lot: Lot 5 - Dublin Midlands - low acuity
Lot number: 5
Title of the lot: Lot 6 - Dublin Midlands - medium acuity
Lot number: 6
Title of the lot: Lot 7 - ULHG - low acuity
Lot number: 7
Title of the lot: Lot 8 - ULHG - medium acuity
Lot number: 8
Title of the lot: Lot 9 - South / South West - low acuity
Lot number: 9
Title of the lot: Lot 10 - South / South West - medium acuity
Lot number: 10
Title of the lot: Lot 11 - Saolta Group - low acuity
Lot number: 11
Title of the lot: Lot 12 - Saolta Group - medium acuity
Lot number: 12
Title of the lot: Lot 13 - CHI - low acuity
Lot number: 13
Title of the lot: Lot 14 - CHI - medium acuity
Lot number: 14
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: Please see tender documentation for details.
Information about a particular profession: Services
Reference to relevant legislative or regulatory provisions:
Contract performance conditions: Please see tender documentation for details.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Number of participants to be contemplated: 28
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2021-03-08 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 9 months
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Claudia Manning
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/461 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180250&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Estimated timing for further notices: On conclusion of contract.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2020/S 251-630869 (2020-12-21)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Ambulance services
Reference number: Hse
Short description:
The HSE invites responses from suitably qualified organisations for appointment to a framework agreement for private ambulance services providing a high-quality transport service for public HSE patients; strictly on an if and when required basis (as deemed by the HSE).
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Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Ambulance services 📦
Additional CPV: Health services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender
Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Health Service Executive (HSE)
Postal address: Head Office, Millennium Park
Postal town: Naas
Contact
Internet address: http://www.hse.ie 🌏
E-mail: claudia.manning@hse.ie 📧
Phone: +353 214923053 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180250&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180250&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-12-21 📅
Submission deadline: 2021-02-01 📅
Publication date: 2020-12-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 251-630869
OJ-S issue: 251
Additional information
The services being procured under this framework agreement are classified as ‘social and other specific services’ under the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016, and therefore fall under the light touch regime.
Tenderers should note that this framework agreement is not applicable to the provision of services to private patients being transferred between hospitals.
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Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 40 000 000 EUR 💰
Information about lots: Please see tender documentation for details.
Title of the lot: Lot 1: Ireland East — Low Acuity
Lot number: 1
Short description: Please see tender documentation for details.
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals: Please see tender documentation for details.
Title of the lot: Lot 2 - Ireland East - medium acuity
Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: Lot 3 - RCSI - low acuity
Lot number: 3
Title of the lot: Lot 4 - RCSI - medium acuity
Lot number: 4
Title of the lot: Lot 5 - Dublin Midlands - low acuity
Lot number: 5
Title of the lot: Lot 6 - Dublin Midlands - medium acuity
Lot number: 6
Title of the lot: Lot 7 - ULHG - low acuity
Lot number: 7
Title of the lot: Lot 8 - ULHG - medium acuity
Lot number: 8
Title of the lot: Lot 9 - South / South West - low acuity
Lot number: 9
Title of the lot: Lot 10 - South / South West - medium acuity
Lot number: 10
Title of the lot: Lot 11 - Saolta Group - low acuity
Lot number: 11
Title of the lot: Lot 12 - Saolta Group - medium acuity
Lot number: 12
Title of the lot: Lot 13 - CHI - low acuity
Lot number: 13
Title of the lot: Lot 14 - CHI - medium acuity
Lot number: 14
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: Please see tender documentation for details.
Information about a particular profession: Services
Reference to relevant legislative or regulatory provisions:
The candidate must be accredited with current Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) Clinical practice guidelines or equivalent EU accreditation.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: Please see tender documentation for details.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Number of participants to be contemplated: 28
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2021-03-08 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 9 months
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Claudia Manning
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/461 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=180250&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Estimated timing for further notices: On conclusion of contract.
The services being procured under this framework agreement are classified as ‘social and other specific services’ under the European Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016, and therefore fall under the light touch regime.
Tenderers should note that this framework agreement is not applicable to the provision of services to private patients being transferred between hospitals.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Source: OJS 2020/S 251-630869 (2020-12-21)
Contract award notice (2021-10-26)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: Head Office
Postal code: Millennium Park
Contact
Phone: +353 0214923053 📞
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-10-26 📅
Publication date: 2021-10-29 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 211-555727
Refers to notice: 2020/S 251-630869
OJ-S issue: 211
Additional information
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title of the lot: Lot 1 - Ireland East - low acuity
Additional information:
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): n/a
Quality criterion (weighting): 0
Price (weighting): 0
Reference
Additional information
Complementary information
Review body
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Source: OJS 2021/S 211-555727 (2021-10-26)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Please be advised that the procurement process will not proceed to award — for the avoidance of doubt, this applies to all lots as advertised.
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Contracting authority
Identity
Postal address: Head Office
Postal code: Millennium Park
Contact
Phone: +353 0214923053 📞
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-10-26 📅
Publication date: 2021-10-29 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 211-555727
Refers to notice: 2020/S 251-630869
OJ-S issue: 211
Additional information
Please be advised that the procurement process will not proceed to award — for the avoidance of doubt, this applies to all lots as advertised.
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title of the lot: Lot 1 - Ireland East - low acuity
Additional information:
Please be advised that the procurement process will not proceed to award — for the avoidance of doubt, this applies to all lots as advertised.
Short description: please see tender documentation for details.
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): n/a
Quality criterion (weighting): 0
Price (weighting): 0
Reference
Additional information
This notification is to advise that this procurement process has been cancelled - for the avoidance of doubt, the Contracting Authority has not proceeded to award any contracts under this procurement process and applies to all lots as advertised.
Complementary information
Review body
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Source: OJS 2021/S 211-555727 (2021-10-26)
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