GOSH Children’s Acute Transport Services (CATS)

Direct award

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published

Awarded value£981,350published award · exc. VAT

Award in standstill 12 Mar 2026no call for competition

Award (standstill) to ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of Children’s Acute Transport Services (CATS) for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH)

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

From the official record

Why no open competition

Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement

Published justification

This procurement is compliant with PSR 23 – Direct Award Process C as:

The existing provider is currently delivering the services under the current contract which was tendered;
The proposed 13-month contract represents a continuation of existing services with no material change to service specification;
The total contract value increase of 2.5% remains below the 25% threshold for a “considerable change” as defined within the PSR 23.

20 Mar 2026 → 31 Mar 2026 · 2 dates

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Mar 2026

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £981,3501 award exc. VAT

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
ST. JOHN AMBULANCEVCSE1 Jun 2026 – 30 Sept 2027	£981,350	12 Mar 2026standstill to 31 Mar 2026	Standstill

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PPYL-1513-MZZL Great Ormond Street, London, London, WC1N 3JHContact email

1 commercial party on the notice

St John AmbulanceAwarded supplierGB-COH: 03866129 ST JOHN'S GATE ST. JOHN'S LANE, LONDON, London, EC1M 4DAContact email

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Notices published for this procedure

Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender20 Mar 2026, 12:21 GMT
Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender2 Mar 2026, 15:56 GMT