Stale Pre-tender

Secure Patients Transport- Market Engagement

Details

Topic
Health services
Published
31 October 2025
Submission
17 November 2025

Tender description

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust are looking to develop a multi-agency collaborative to provide a Secure Patient Transport service for patients, to be conveyed in appropriate vehicles depending on security requirements and mobility type. It is intended to provide a high quality, patient led service to support patients detained under the Mental Health Act sectioned and voluntary patient at risk of absconding, causing harm to themselves, causing harm to others and in the interest of safety. The Contract is for the supply of secure vehicle patient transportation Service. This will be 24 hours per day, 365 days per year during the period of the contract including Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays and the service provided must be promptly executed. Vehicles must be available day and night to provide the service to the Trusts as required.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published31 October 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust providing mental health services across Birmingham, Solihull and the wider West Midlands. Procurement runs through the BSOL Procurement Collaborative, hosted by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. That collaborative covers five NHS trusts across the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System, including this Trust. Tenders appear on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, alongside NHS-wide procurement portals. The Trust has used the Provider Selection Regime for forensic inpatient GP services, run through the BSOL collaborative.

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 Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in health and social work, education and training, and construction work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 85100000 · Health services

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