Closed tender

SWAST-3142-F Vehicle Roadside Recovery and Repair Services

Details

Published
9 July 2025
Submission
8 August 2025

Tender description

The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is seeking a suitably qualified provider to deliver comprehensive roadside recovery and repair services for its operational vehicle fleet. The appointed supplier will be responsible for ensuring timely and effective roadside assistance, including diagnostics, repairs, and recovery, for a range of vehicles including ambulances, passenger cars, and commercial units. This service is critical to maintaining the Trust’s emergency response capability and ensuring continuity of care across the South West region. The contract will be awarded following an open procedure and is expected to commence on 1 October 2025 for an initial term of five years, with the option to extend by up to two additional years.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published9 July 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date8 August 2025

About the buyer

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust runs emergency and urgent care across the south west of England as an NHS ambulance trust. Every tender and sourcing exercise runs through Atamis Select, the Trust's e-sourcing portal. The Trust takes part in a supplier engagement programme run with NHS England. Invoicing and purchase-to-pay processing route through NHS Shared Business Services. The Trust covers 10,000 square miles, a fifth of mainland England, from Cornwall to Gloucestershire. A public contracts register lists live agreements for suppliers to check.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in software and information systems, construction work and furniture and furnishings.

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