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Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Dedicated Discharge Vehicle to support Winter Pressures Programme at Musgrove Park Hospital

Transport EquipmentCPV 34000000 34100000 34110000 34114000
Value£30k
Awarded14 Oct 2018
Published25 Oct 2018
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£30ktotal contract value
median £102k
this tender£0£2.9m

This sits below the typical range for Transport Equipment contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Authority requires a Dedicated Discharge vehicle to support the current transport provisions during the busy winter period, under the Dynamic Purchasing System to provide Extra Vehicle and Staff Capacity to deliver Non-emergency Patient Transport Services established by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

Contract Period: 4 (four) months plus the option of 2 (two) additional one month extensions, Contract Start Date: 1st November 2018

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Authority requires a Dedicated Discharge vehicle

The Authority requires a Dedicated Discharge vehicle to support the current transport provisions during the busy winter period, under the Dynamic Purchasing System to provide Extra Vehicle and Staff Capacity to deliver Non-emergency Patient Transport Services established by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
The Authority requires a Dedicated Discharge vehicle to support the current transport provisions during the busy winter period, under the Dynamic Purchasing System to provide Extra Vehicle and Staff Capacity to deliver Non-emergency Patient Transport Services established by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

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Source & provenance
OCID
5d7d6610-1903-489d-8fa9-656564b5f9d2
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
TSNHS001-DN368661-68045908
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