Market Engagement for Commercial Strategy Implementation for Urgent Care PPs

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is tendering for A&E Private Ambulance Services. SCAS has used Private Ambulance Services for over 10 years to supplement its internal capacity. Following a strategic review of existing contracts, SCAS is planning to replace existing contracts, purchased under a dynamic purchasing system with longer term contracts to provide increased certainty and stability of private service provision. Services will be required 24 hours per day, 365 days per year including all public holidays. The procurement activity is expected to commence in December 2022, with new contracts to be operational in the period June 2023 – December 2023. Existing contracts will be extended to support a phased transition to the new service. SCAS is undertaking service and contract design activity and would encourage the input of interested suppliers via market engagement activity over November and December 2022. We will commence with a market engagement event on 17th November at 13:30 pm. This will be conducted as a hybrid face to face and online meeting. Due to capacity limitations, attendance in person will be restricted to twAdd supplementary code II.1.3. Type of contract Services II.1.4. Short description (Maximum 4000 characters) o delegates per supplier on an invitation only basis. To register your interest in attending the event please contact Sandra Milburn at sandra.milburn@scas.nhs.uk.