Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- ERS Medical 1
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Vehicles & transport equipment · Ambulances (CPV 34114121)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 082128-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Aug 2026
- Published28 Aug 2026Published 16 days after the contract date
Description
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice<br/><br/>Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust ("the Authority") is seeking to procure Patient Transport Services for the South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS).<br/><br/>STRS is a specialist paediatric critical care retrieval service based at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. The service provides emergency and urgent retrieval and transfer of critically ill children between referring hospitals and specialist paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) across a regional network.<br/><br/>The Authority is seeking to procure a dedicated specialist patient transport service operating on a 24/7 basis. The proposed service is expected to support the rapid deployment and transfer of specialist clinical retrieval teams and critically ill paediatric patients.<br/><br/>The anticipated scope of services includes, but is not limited to:<br/>Provision of specialist ambulances suitable for paediatric critical care transport; Prov…
About the supplier
ERS Medical 1: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10783395).