Air transport services

Description

The tender will include four helicopters, pilots and HEMS crew members for the operation of helicopter emergency medical services in Denmark. The contracting authorities will provide the doctors. The detailed terms of the operation of the services appear from draft ‘Contract on the operation of helicopter emergency medical services’, which is included as part of the tender documents. The draft contract is subject to negotiation. The national Danish HEMS service was established by the five regions of Denmark and provides nationwide coverage using four EC-135 helicopters. The helicopters are staffed with a pilot, a HEMS Crew Member (HCM) and a doctor. The service is primarily dispatched to patients with acute life-threatening illnesses or traumatic injury but is also used for inter-hospital patient transfers in minor scale. The HEMS service is a 24/7 single pilot operation with a HEMS Crew Member. The four helicopters complete around 4230 operations/3341 flight hours a year. The crew utilises NVIS in order to land close to the accident scene at night-time and they use point in space procedures when landing at hospitals in difficult weather-conditions. Roughly 20 percent of the operations are executed using NVIS and around 10 percent include the use of the onboard instruments (IFR). The four helicopters that constitute the HEMS-service are situated in Saltum on landside, Billund Airport, Ringsted Airfield and Skive on landside. On each location the regions have established a base with accommodation facilities for the crew and a hanger for the helicopter which allows for minor maintenance facilities. The bases are owned by the regions and are made available for the provider free of charge. The bases are designed to ensure rapid response to emergency calls, and therefore — during daytime — the crew can be airborne 4½ minutes after the sound of the alarm. The contracting authorities have provided basis for submission of parallel bids. Consequently, the tenderers must submit tenders for four small helicopters as well as a parallel tender for two larger helicopters and two small helicopters. In addition, the tenderers must submit tenders for a contract of indefinite duration as well as a fixed-term contract for 10 years.