South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentSouth West EnglandExeter

Official UK PPONPQXD-1311-BRXLWebsiteswast.nhs.uk ↗

Open now1next deadline 5 Nov 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 months56+75% vs prior 12 months (32)
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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 lot34.2% single-bid · 24 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 24 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share20%of 65 awarded procedures · 79 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.

65 awarded tenders, 79 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months2918 within 6 months
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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£52mnet · on 69 of 73 published values · 4 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 87%
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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

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
SWAST-5039-F Supply of Workshop ConsumablesFramework5 Nov 202610d£2,033,333

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 · 88 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.

  • Contract91%(80 notices)
    80 of 88 notices are Contract (91%).
  • Framework9%(8 notices)
    8 of 88 notices are Framework (9%).
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 / restricted32%(28 notices)
    28 of 88 notices are Limited / restricted (32%).
  • Open31%(27 notices)
    27 of 88 notices are Open (31%).
  • Direct award22%(19 notices)
    19 of 88 notices are Direct award (22%).
  • Route not published15%(13 notices)
    13 of 88 notices are Route not published (15%).
  • Selective1%(1 notices)
    1 of 88 notices are Selective (1%).
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 24 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=244.2% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 7 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

27 daysrobust · n=7
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 88 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

013 of 88 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 15 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=15

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
Phoenix Software Ltd69.2%66—
CENTRAL ROOFING AND BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED46.2%448 Dec 2025
Softcat Plc34.6%33—
I J Cannings & Son Ltd34.6%3330 Mar 2026
Take Me Group Ltdframework/DPS on 123.1%2315 Jun 2026
Honeyfield Property Services Ltd23.1%222 Feb 2026
Daisy Communications Limited23.1%22—
ECO NRG LTD23.1%2215 Oct 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 20% of 65 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 79 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.

£52mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 69 of 73 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 87%.
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.

£44k middle valuerobust · n=69Middle half £20k–£156k; 4 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
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
SWAST-3047-OP Private Ambulance ProvidersBristol Ambulance Ems Limited——£34,000,000 †
Mechanical Reactive & Planned Maintenance Lot 1Lorne stewart PLC11 Sept 20255 yrs · up to 9.1 yrs£4,875,000
≈ £975k/yr
Vehicle Roadside Recovery and Repair ServicesFIELD SERVICES——£3,311,233 †
Electrical (Emergency Lighting, 'PAT Testing', Fixed WiringBWS Security Systems Limited11 Sept 20255 yrs · up to 9 yrs£1,792,500
≈ £359k/yr
Ventilation & Air ConditioningK F Bartlett Ltd (T/A Bartlett)11 Sept 20255 yrs · up to 9 yrs£1,023,750
≈ £205k/yr

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.

51 of 65 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 29 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 105 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
SWAST-5149-E- Exeter Main Operating BaseConstruction workPlanned17 Sept 2026£15,000,000
SWAST-5146-COR Employee Career Development Mentoring AppSoftware package and information systemsOpen9 Sept 2026£30,000
SWAST-5143-F Clinical Training Manikins and Simulation Equipment MaintenanceRepair and maintenance services of medical equipmentPlanning27 Aug 2026£1
SWAST-5129-E Fuel Storage Infrastructure Replacement and Associated Services FrameworkFrameworkMechanical installationsOpen26 Aug 2026£1,000,000
SWAST-5141-FM Liskeard Ambulance Station Building Improvement and Minor WorksConstruction workOpen26 Aug 2026£317,000
SWAST-5130-FM Open Framework Station RefurbishmentsFramework7 lotsConstruction workOpen18 Aug 2026£5,833,333
SWAST-5126-FM Water Safety2 lotsIndustrial quality control servicesAwarded / complete14 Aug 2026£1,870,000
SWAST-5092-R1-F Annual Boat Maintenance ServicesAwarded / complete14 Aug 2026—
Sophos Intercept X AdvancedAwarded / complete11 Aug 2026—
Provision of Taxi Services for SWASFTAwarded / complete6 Aug 2026—
File Management SoftwareAwarded / complete6 Aug 2026—
SWAST-5134-F Fuel Management SystemFuel pumpsOpen29 Jul 2026£125,000
SWAST-5122-FM Grounds MaintenanceGrounds maintenance servicesOpen28 Jul 2026£300,000
SWAST-5136-COR Ambulance Specialist Manual Handling Training & ConsultancyHealth and safety consultancy servicesOpen8 Jul 2026£60,000
SWAST-5051-F Ambulance Tail Lift Maintenance and Associated Services Framework (Southern Ambulance Service Collaboration)Framework5 lotsVehicle-fleet-support servicesOpen18 Jun 2026£1,200,000
Provision of Taxi Services for SWASFTAwarded / complete1 Jun 2026—
SWAST-5007-DDaT Adobe LicencesAwarded / complete5 May 2026—
SWAST-5103W-HRW Clinical records licence and software supportAwarded / complete24 Apr 2026—
SWAST-5125-HT HART Ballistic VestsSpecial workwearOpen16 Apr 2026£100,000
Management Consultancy: Engagement & ResearchAwarded / complete10 Apr 2026—

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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. 51 of 65 published contracts have an end date; 2 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.