Official UK procurement notice
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) 2027
Authority: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEast Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (“EMAS”) is issuing this invitation to tender (ITT) under the provider selection regime (PSR), competitive process for the provision of Private Ambulance services where needed. <br/><br/>The intention is to award as separate lots and providers may bid for one or more of the lots if they are able to provide the necessary service within that area. This tender is based upon additional resource to EMAS using double crewed ambulance under blue light with a mix of Paramedic, Technicians and Emergency Care Assistants (ECA).<br/><br/>There is a total of 4 lots associated with this procurement as follow:<br/>Lot 1 - South Lincolnshire<br/>Lot 2 - Leicestershire<br/>Lot 3 - Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire<br/>Lot 4 - Northamptonshire <br/><br/>Providers must be CQC registered and hold all relevant licences required for carrying out this work. <br/><br/>The contract is for a 12 month period commencing on 1st April 2027 with an option to extend 12 months.<br/><br/>This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Act 2024 do not apply to this award.
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).
- Suitability
As per tender documents
- Technical & professional ability
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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 29 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid0% / 11%
2–30% / 16%
4–633% / 37%
7+67% / 37%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate20%
Within ±2%60%
Above estimate20%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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£40m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–318%
4–615%
7+52%
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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.
Based on 11 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£40m
Estimate£40m
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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| central medical services ltdLive contract | Private Ambulance Servicesruns to Mar 2027 | — | £12m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Elite EMSWorked for this buyer | Private Ambulance Service Elitnotice published Mar 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £33m7 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £12m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 | |
EMED GROUP LIMITEDLarge | £314m5 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £222m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 |
| £28m37 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 19 live · £30m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £12m28 awards in 36m · last this month | 11 live · £3.1m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £14m38 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 12 live · £25m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
71% title match.
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.
71% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (71% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Private Ambulance Services — held by central medical services ltd; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2027.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 26 Jun 2026, 10:40 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 15:48 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 27 Oct 2026 – …
- Authority reference
C471686- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091124- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bdcdFind a Tender
- Performance terms
As per tender documents
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Act 2024 do not apply to this award.<br/><br/>EMAS will assess against the 5 key criteria required under the provider selection regime with the following weighted criteria:<br/><br/>1. Key Criteria 1 – Quality and Innovation - 22%<br/>2. Key Criteria 2 - Value - 40%<br/>3. Key Criteria 3 – Integration, Collaboration and Service Sustainability - 15%<br/>4. Key Criteria 4 – Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice - 13%<br/>5. Key Criteria 5 – Social Value - 10%<br/><br/><br/>EMAS is utilising an electronic tendering tool to manage this competition and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with EMAS, including response submissions, will be conducted via the Atamis portal at:<br/><br/>Atamis Tender Opportunities - https://atamis-1928.my.salesforce-sites.com/?searchtype=Projects<br/><br/>You can also register your interest via this page. You can search for the opportunity by entering the following contract reference: <br/>Private Ambulance Service (PAS) 2027 (PSR Competitive Process) - C471686.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Submission deadline
- 27 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 27 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
Timeline
26 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published122 days ago26 Jun 2026, 10:40 BST
- Latest notice published31 days ago25 Sept 2026, 15:48 BST
- Tender notice expected25 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 4h27 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 4h27 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 Jun 2026- Pipeline notice published26 Jun 2026, 10:40 BSTUK1
- Status changed to active25 Sept 2026, 15:48 BST
- Deadline published: 27 Oct 2026, 13:00 GMT25 Sept 2026, 15:48 BST
- Buyer details updated25 Sept 2026, 15:48 BST
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
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court and Court of Appeal of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
Notices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender