Official UK procurement notice
Non Emergency Patient Transport Services Framework Market Engagement
Authority: London Procurement Partnership
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS London Procurement Partnership (Hosted by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust) is preparing to procure a new framework agreement for Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services under the NHS Provider Selection Regime (PSR).<br/><br/>The planned procurement will cover Non-emergency Patient Transport Services, for all mobility types, 24/7, 365/6 days a year. <br/><br/>Relevant authorities can access the Framework and award a contract by further competition or direct award.<br/><br/>The anticipated Lot structure includes Core for standard NEPT, Renal, Secure, High Dependency and Resilience. NHS LPP reserves the right to change this Lot structure. <br/><br/>Geographical coverage: Aligned to all ambulance trusts regions within England<br/><br/>This procurement will be run in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime (Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023). NHS London Procurement Partnership intends to follow Competitive Process for this framework agreement.<br/><br/>NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) will be hosting a market engagement event on 1st December 2025 to discuss the upcoming Framework for Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services. <br/><br/>To register your interest, please email gstt.lppefps1@nhs.net with the following details by midday on 28th November 2025:<br/><br/>Name:<br/>Job title:<br/>Organisation:<br/>Contact email:<br/><br/>with the subject “PIN Registration – Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services” . <br/><br/>All registered providers will receive further information.<br/><br/>All engagement will be run in accordance with PSR statutory guidance. No decision on contract award will be made at this stage. This PIN is issued for information and engagement purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition nor a commitment to tender.
CPV: Ambulance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Non Emergency Patient Transport Services Framework Market Engagement” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Procurement Partnership buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
London Procurement Partnership has little published record in this market. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 66% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 65% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 74 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 44% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid4%
2–311%
4–614%
7+71%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8514Published estimate£1.4bn
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–311%
4–614%
7+71%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- 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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-075385- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e4bfFind a Tender
How it was run
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- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
19 Nov 2025 → 28 Feb 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published342 days ago19 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
- Tender notice expected242 days ago28 Feb 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.