Provision of Private, Safe and Secure Transportation for patients within Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Service Group
Details
- Duration
- 1 month
- Topic
- Patient-transport vehicles
- Published
- 19 August 2025
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
Mental Health and Learning Disabilities (MH&LD) Service Group often require the use of private transportation to safely transport patients from one placement to another due to the level of risk and patient need, whether this be from a general hospital to a psychiatric hospital (or vice versa due to medical need), or to a private placement. This notice is to award a contract for a pilot scheme for period 01/02/2025 to 31/09/2025 to review the service and determine future service requirement. This will establish a robust service specification and plan to then action a competitive tender exercise. ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published19 August 2025Current notice
- Completed: Award date19 August 2025
- Completed: Contract expiry date30 September 2025
About the buyer
NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.
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 NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.
Relevant CPV codes
- 34114122 · Patient-transport vehicles
- 85112200 · Outpatient care services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov |
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