South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentSouth East EnglandBicester

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Open now1next deadline 9 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months15+275% vs prior 12 months (4)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share64%of 14 awarded procedures · 7 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.

14 awarded tenders, 7 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months33 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£11mnet · on 13 of 13 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 96%
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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

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Occupational Health Services9 Oct 20269d£12,600,000

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 · 19 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 100% (19 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 47% (9 notices)
  • Open 32% (6 notices)
  • Selective 11% (2 notices)
  • Direct award 5% (1 notices)
  • Route not published 5% (1 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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

8indicative · n=10% 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 19 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

02 of 19 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

25% below estimateindicative · n=1

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
VISION DESIGN LIMITED428.6%441 May 2026
SEE Rail Ltd trading as SEE Services321.4%3330 Aug 2026
QUAYSTONE PROJECTS LIMITED214.3%221 May 2026
East Berkshire Primary Care214.3%127 Feb 2025
P.H.BECK LIMITED17.1%111 May 2026
Salnor Roofing Services Ltd17.1%111 May 2026
Lorne stewart PLC17.1%1117 Sept 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 64% of 14 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 7 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.

£11mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 13 of 13 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 96%.
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.

£83k middle valuerobust · n=13Middle half £67k–£111k.
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
Hard FM ServicesLorne stewart PLC——£7,500,000 †
GP Clinical Assessment Service - Cat 3 & 4East Berkshire Primary Care——£2,733,000 †
Pharmacy CD Safe InstallationVISION DESIGN LIMITED—6 mo£225,000 †
Gosport Re-roofing and associated worksSalnor Roofing Services Ltd—11 mo£111,053 †
Portable EV ChargersSEE Rail Ltd trading as SEE Services7 Aug 20263 yrs£85,438
≈ £28k/yr

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 · 11 of 13 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 32 of 32 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Tender for Computer-Aided Dispatch System For South Central Ambulance Service and Isle of Wight Ambulance Service 999 OperationsAmbulance servicesOpen29 Jan 2024£8,780,000
Tender for the provision of Emergency & Urgent Care Services Additional Hours Dec22-Mar23Ambulance servicesOpen18 Oct 2023£3,800,000
GP Clinical Assessment Service - Cat 3 & 4General-practitioner servicesAwarded / complete30 Mar 2023—
Facilities and Operational Janitorial Services - Competitive Dialogue 20223 lotsCleaning and sanitation servicesOpen3 Jan 2023£4,500,000
Planned & Reactive Maintenancecentral purchasing bodyRepair and maintenance services of building installationsPlanned11 Nov 2022—
Market Engagement for Commercial Strategy Implementation for Urgent Care PPsAmbulance servicesPlanned3 Nov 2022£180,000,000
Make Ready Tender 20223 lotsBuilding and facilities management servicesOpen17 May 2022£11,000,000
Market Engagement for Commercial Strategy for Urgent Care PPsAmbulance servicesPlanned25 Mar 2022—
Stock Control SystemSoftware package and information systemsPlanned16 Mar 2022£500,000
Workforce Management SystemSoftware package and information systemsOpen18 Jan 2021£29,640,000
HSH IUC Partners Direct AwardHealth and social work servicesNot published29 Apr 2021—

Search all 32 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 (£305m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 13 award records on 13 procedures (13 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 11 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: 11 of 13 published contracts carry a period end; 3 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (22 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-110381GB-FTS-114885GB-FTS-1824GB-FTS-185898GB-FTS-19456GB-FTS-2042GB-FTS-30042GB-FTS-31009GB-FTS-3592GB-FTS-40332GB-FTS-44853GB-FTS-46736GB-FTS-51044GB-FTS-52892GB-FTS-53007GB-FTS-67537GB-FTS-68325GB-FTS-71846GB-FTS-71924GB-FTS-75504GB-NHS-NoneGB-NHS-RYE

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