Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- ABC Ambulance Services[UK] Ltd. SME, Alliance Ambulance Services SME, Amvale Scotland Ltd SME
- Value
- £6,500,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Transport services · Special-purpose road passenger-transport services (CPV 60130000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 052358-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Aug 2025
- Published29 Aug 2025Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
Although most of patient transport in this context is provisioned via the Scottish Ambulance Service, there are occasions where capacity is maximised and it is against this backdrop that the Health Board requires additional patient transport. The transport required is e.g. Non-ambulatory patients who require to be conveyed on a stretcher Non-ambulatory patients who require to be conveyed on a trolley/stretcher, chair or stair climbers. Some patients can be ambulant but require assistance walking to and from their homes and hospital/treatment centres. This can be for situations where: A patient is receiving palliative care and needs to be transferred home or to a care home A patient requires to be transferred from an acute hospital to another hospital. A patient requires a transfer from an acute hospital in Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Lanarkshire to another acute hospital out with Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Lanarkshire and then potentially returned
About the suppliers
ABC Ambulance Services[UK] Ltd.: every public contract they have won.
Alliance Ambulance Services: every public contract they have won.
Amvale Scotland Ltd: every public contract they have won.