East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentEast MidlandsNottingham

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Open now2next deadline 27 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months12-8% vs prior 12 months (13)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot8.50% single-bid · 6 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share56%of 18 awarded procedures · 85 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

18 awarded tenders, 85 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£55mnet · on 10 of 26 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 88%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) 202727 Oct 202627d£40,000,000
Dynamic Market for Non Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) Taxi Support ProvisionDPS3 lots31 Mar 20301279d—

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 25 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 84% (21 notices)
  • Framework 12% (3 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 4% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Limited / restricted 40% (10 notices)
  • Open 36% (9 notices)
  • Selective 12% (3 notices)
  • Route not published 12% (3 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

8.5robust · n=60% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 25 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

114 of 25 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
central medical services ltd738.9%771 Jul 2026
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITEDframework/DPS on 1211.1%2215 Sept 2026
HALLS ELECTRICAL LTDframework/DPS on 2211.1%2215 Sept 2026
Irwin M&E Limitedframework/DPS on 115.6%1132 Sept 2026
Sudlows Limitedframework/DPS on 115.6%1122 Sept 2026
Geoffrey Robinson Limitedframework/DPS on 115.6%1122 Sept 2026
Dodd Group Limitedframework/DPS on 115.6%1122 Sept 2026
Dowds Groupframework/DPS on 115.6%1122 Sept 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 56% of 18 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 85 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£55mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 10 of 26 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 88%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£5.0m middle valuerobust · n=10Middle half £711k–£10m; 5 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Private Ambulance Servicescentral medical services ltd——£12,000,000 †
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) FY 25/26 - ELITEElite Medical and Ambulance services ltd——£10,080,900 †
Private Ambulance Service ElitElite EMS——£10,080,900 †
Provision of Hard Facilities Management (Hard FM) to East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TrustCBRE MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED——£10,000,000 †
Provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) 3rd Party Private Ambulance Provider for PTS Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire Regionscentral medical services ltd——£6,000,000 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 12 of 48 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Private Ambulance Servicescentral medical services ltd31 Mar 2027£12,000,000

Recent procedures

Latest 27 of 27 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Purchase of 13 x Toyota Proace Electric Vehicles (One-Off) to replace existing internal logistics fleetLight vansAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Door Access Control SystemIT software packageAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026£150,000
Short-Term Rental/Lease of Ambulance Driver Training VehiclesAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026£300,000
Purchase of 9 x Ford Double Crewed National Specification Ambulances (DCA) Electric Vehicle Base ChassisFramework10 lotsAmbulance bodiesAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026£4,000,000,000
Heat Decarbonisation for 4 Ambulance Stations at East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TrustFramework12 lotsElectrical installation workAwarded / complete2 Sept 2026£1,000,000,000
Private Ambulance ServicesAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete1 Jul 2026£12,000,000
Taxi Support Provision for the Patient Transport Service (East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust)2 lotsTaxi servicesOpen18 May 2026£10,000,000
Provision of 50 x Non-Emergency Patient Transport Vehicles (Lease)Frameworkcentral purchasing body8 lotsAmbulance bodiesAwarded / complete23 Apr 2026£500,000,000
Provision of Bunkered Fuel to East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trustcentral purchasing bodyDiesel fuelAwarded / complete24 Mar 2026£6,000,000
Provision of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) 3rd Party Private Ambulance Provider for PTS Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire Regions3 lotsAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete16 Dec 2025—
Supply of Traffic Film Remover & Exterior Ambulance Cleaning Consumables3 lotsCleaning productsOpen15 Sept 2025£500,000
Provision of Welfare Vehicles Lease HireAwarded / complete26 Aug 2025—
Purchase of 6 x Ford Electric Vehicle EV Base Chassis National Specification Double Crew AmbulancesAmbulancesAwarded / complete16 Jul 2025—
Provision of Hard Facilities Management (Hard FM) to East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TrustBuilding and facilities management servicesAwarded / complete4 Jun 2025£10,000,000
Provision of Emergency Services Fuel CardDiesel fuelPlanned19 May 2025£7,000,000
Supply of Medical GasMedical gasesPlanned19 May 2025£3,200,000
Private Ambulance Service (PAS) FY 25/26 - ELITEHealth servicesAwarded / complete3 Apr 2025—
Private Ambulance ServiceHealth servicesAwarded / complete3 Apr 2025—
Private Ambulance Service ElitHealth servicesAwarded / complete11 Mar 2025—
Private Ambulance ServicesHealth servicesAwarded / complete10 Mar 2025—

Search all 27 procedures for this authority →

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£107m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 49 award records on 18 procedures (26 to a single canonical supplier, 23 multi-supplier). 9 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 12 of 48 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (12 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-140416GB-FTS-30039GB-FTS-3589GB-FTS-40330GB-FTS-48184GB-FTS-49591GB-FTS-50936GB-FTS-51043GB-FTS-71441GB-FTS-75502GB-FTS-88225GB-NHS-RX9

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