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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Market Engagement for the Provision of STRS Patient Transport Services
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 12 May 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS) provides specialist paediatric critical care retrieval and transfer services for critically ill children across a network of hospitals. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to procure a dedicated 24/7 patient transport service, including specialist ambulances and Ambulance Technicians, to support the safe and timely transfer of patients to specialist paediatric intensive care units (PICUs).<br/><br/>With this Prior Information Notice (PIN), the Authority wishes to inform the market of this upcoming opportunity and undertake a Pre-Market Engagement (PME) exercise to better understand supplier capability, market capacity, mobilisation considerations, and potential delivery models ahead of any formal procurement process.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 85100000
- 85143000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 12 May 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 12 May 2026.
Release 043332-2026
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The source does not state a usable value.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-069666
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Tue 19 May 2026, 08:14 BST
- Read at
- Sat 17 Oct 2026, 01:53 BST
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