East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentEast MidlandsNottingham

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Open now2next deadline 27 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months6-60% vs prior 12 months (15)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot70% single-bid · 5 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share50%of 20 awarded procedures · 87 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

20 awarded tenders, 87 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months141 within 6 months · 11 estimated
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£60mnet · on 12 of 12 published values · top 5 = 78%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) 202727 Oct 20261d£40,000,000
Dynamic Market for Non Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) Taxi Support ProvisionDPS3 lots31 Mar 20301252d—

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 21 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract95%(20 notices)
    20 of 21 notices are Contract (95%).
  • Dynamic purchasing system5%(1 notices)
    1 of 21 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (5%).
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Limited / restricted43%(9 notices)
    9 of 21 notices are Limited / restricted (43%).
  • Open38%(8 notices)
    8 of 21 notices are Open (38%).
  • Route not published14%(3 notices)
    3 of 21 notices are Route not published (14%).
  • Selective5%(1 notices)
    1 of 21 notices are Selective (5%).
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

7robust · n=50% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 21 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

08 of 21 notices amended

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
central medical services ltd735%77—
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITEDframework/DPS on 1210%12—
HALLS ELECTRICAL LTDframework/DPS on 2210%02—
Elite Medical and Ambulance services ltd15%12—
Bluelight UK Ltd (Backup Provider)15%1226 Aug 2026
Emergency Services Training & Resilience (Primary Provider)15%1226 Aug 2026
Elite EMS15%11—
DACK LINCOLN LTD15%1126 Aug 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 50% of 20 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 87 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£60mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 12 of 12 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 78%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£5.0m middle valuerobust · n=12Middle half £289k–£8.1m.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Private Ambulance Servicescentral medical services ltd——£12,000,000 †
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) FY 25/26 - ELITEElite Medical and Ambulance services ltd——£10,080,900 †
Private Ambulance Service ElitElite EMS——£10,080,900 †
Private Ambulance Servicescentral medical services ltd——£7,450,118 †
Private Ambulance Servicecentral medical services ltd——£7,450,118 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

31 of 49 contracts carry an end date, 19 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Private Ambulance Servicescentral medical services ltd31 Mar 2027£12,000,000
Lot 1a - Mechanical Works £50,000 to £500,000Building Services NOW Ltd, C Watkins, CBES Ltd +2725 Jul 2027 estimated£25,000,000
Lot 3b - Mechanical and Electrical Works £500,000 to £1,000,000Briggs and Forrester Engineering Services Ltd, C Watkins, CBES Ltd +2725 Jul 2027 estimated£137,500,000
Lot 3c - Mechanical and Electrical Works £1,000,000 to £3,000,000Briggs and Forrester Engineering Services Ltd, C Watkins, Chris Bowker Limited +2425 Jul 2027 estimated£137,500,000
Lot 3d - Mechanical and Electrical Works £3,000,000 or moreBriggs and Forrester Engineering Services Ltd, C Watkins, Dodd Group Limited +1925 Jul 2027 estimated£137,500,000
Lot 1b - Mechanical Works £500,000 to £1,000,000Building Services NOW Ltd, C Watkins, Chris Bowker Limited +2525 Jul 2027 estimated£25,000,000
Lot 1c - Mechanical Works £1,000,000 to £3,000,000Building Services NOW Ltd, C Watkins, Chris Bowker Limited +1825 Jul 2027 estimated£25,000,000
Lot 1d - Mechanical Works £3,000,000 or moreC Watkins, Chris Bowker Limited, Dodd Group Limited +1425 Jul 2027 estimated£25,000,000
Lot 2b - Electrical Works £500,000 to £1,000,000Chris Bowker Limited, Countrywide Electrical Services Ltd, Dodd Group Limited +1925 Jul 2027 estimated£87,500,000
Lot 2c - Electrical Works £1,000,000 to £3,000,000Chris Bowker Limited, Countrywide Electrical Services Ltd, Dodd Group Limited +1825 Jul 2027 estimated£87,500,000

Soonest 10 of 14 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 28 of 28 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of External Tutors for Ambulance Driver TrainingFramework2 lotsEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete1 Oct 2026£4,000,000
Purchase of 13 x Toyota Proace Electric Vehicles (One-Off) to replace existing internal logistics fleetLight vansAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Door Access Control SystemIT software packageAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026£150,000
Short-Term Rental/Lease of Ambulance Driver Training VehiclesAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026£300,000
Purchase of 9 x Ford Double Crewed National Specification Ambulances (DCA) Electric Vehicle Base ChassisFramework10 lotsAmbulance bodiesAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026£4,000,000,000
Heat Decarbonisation for 4 Ambulance Stations at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TrustFramework12 lotsElectrical installation workAwarded / complete2 Sept 2026£1,000,000,000
Private Ambulance ServicesAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete1 Jul 2026£12,000,000
Taxi Support Provision for the Patient Transport Service (East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust)2 lotsTaxi servicesOpen18 May 2026£10,000,000
Provision of 50 x Non-Emergency Patient Transport Vehicles (Lease)Frameworkcentral purchasing body8 lotsAmbulance bodiesAwarded / complete23 Apr 2026£500,000,000
Provision of Bunkered Fuel to East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trustcentral purchasing bodyDiesel fuelAwarded / complete24 Mar 2026£6,000,000
Provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) 3rd Party Private Ambulance Provider for PTS Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire Regions3 lotsAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete16 Dec 2025—
Supply of Traffic Film Remover & Exterior Ambulance Cleaning Consumables3 lotsCleaning productsOpen15 Sept 2025£500,000
Provision of Welfare Vehicles Lease HireAwarded / complete26 Aug 2025—
Purchase of 6 x Ford Electric Vehicle EV Base Chassis National Specification Double Crew AmbulancesAmbulancesAwarded / complete16 Jul 2025—
Provision of Hard Facilities Management (Hard FM) to East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TrustBuilding and facilities management servicesAwarded / complete4 Jun 2025£10,000,000
Provision of Emergency Services Fuel CardDiesel fuelPlanned19 May 2025£7,000,000
Supply of Medical GasMedical gasesPlanned19 May 2025£3,200,000
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) FY 25/26 - ELITEHealth servicesAwarded / complete3 Apr 2025—
Private Ambulance ServiceHealth servicesAwarded / complete3 Apr 2025—
Private Ambulance Service ElitHealth servicesAwarded / complete11 Mar 2025—

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About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
  • Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
  • Contract end dates. 31 of 49 published contracts have an end date; 19 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.