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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Provision of Secure Patient Transport for Mental Health Patients

HealthcareCPV 85143000
Value£2,600,000
Deadline
Published20 Mar 2026
RegionNationwide

£2,600,000 — stated in the notice

Who to contact
Chris Johnson
chris.johnson15@nhs.net

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.6mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have a requirement for Secure Mental Health Patient Transport Services, which involves the safe and appropriate transfer of individuals experiencing acute psychiatric or similar symptoms/crises.

This service would include transfers between hospital sites and to and from other facilities depending on the service level need.

The service must ensure the safety of the patient, transport staff, and the public.

It requires trained personnel skilled in de-escalation and restraint, specialist vehicles with appropriate safety modifications, and the use of physical or procedural controls where necessary, particularly for patients detained under the Mental Health Act.

Service requirements should be available 24/7, with journeys being adhoc nature.

A robust booking and communication system should be demonstrated.

Bookings will be made by our Bed Management team, following the appropriate risk assessment processes.

Journeys may be made on an urgent basis (30 mins), standard same day or pre-planned with 24 to 48 hours notice. **Intention is to undertake a further Competition against the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Dynamic Purchasing System - LPP/2017/013** Under Lot 3 - Mental Health and Secure Transport Services.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The service must ensure the safety

The service must ensure the safety of the patient, transport staff, and the public.

02

Service requirements should be available 24/7,

Service requirements should be available 24/7, with journeys being adhoc nature.

03

A robust booking and communication system should

A robust booking and communication system should be demonstrated.

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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
Intention is to undertake a further Competition against the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Dynamic Purchasing System - LPP/2017/013** Under Lot 3 - Mental Health and Secure Transport Services.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06706b
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
025807-2026
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