Closed tender

NENC065 Mental Health Secure Patient Transport Service Market Engagement - EOI

Details

Published
28 August 2026
Submission
4 September 2026

Tender description

NHS North East North Cumbria Integrated Care Board is undertaking market engagement in relation to the future provision of a Mental Health Secure Patient Transport Service across the North East and North Cumbria Region. NENC ICB is hosting an information session for providers interested in the future delivery of Mental Health Secure Patient Transport Services across the North East and North Cumbria at 3:00pm on Monday 07 September. The session will provide an overview of a number of potential service delivery models currently being explored and explain how local framework arrangements could potentially be applied to support service delivery across the region.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published28 August 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date4 September 2026

About the buyer

NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board commissions health and care services as an NHS integrated care board, formed from a merger of local clinical commissioning groups. Procurement and payment services run through NHS Shared Business Services, whose Supplier Portal suppliers use for invoices and payments. NHS SBS delivers this through framework agreements open to the NHS and the wider public sector. Supplier invoicing runs separately through the Tradeshift platform. Existing contracts are managed through the commissioning representative named in each contract.

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 North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board's contract awards have been in health and social work, software and information systems and IT services.

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