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title: "Market Engagement for Commercial Strategy Implementation for Urgent Care PPs"
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# Market Engagement for Commercial Strategy Implementation for Urgent Care PPs

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-for-commercial-strategy-implementation-for-urgent-care-pps-ocds-h6vhtk-037ec6). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust: "Market Engagement for Commercial Strategy Implementation for Urgent Care PPs". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £180,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/south-central-ambulance-service-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rye)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £180,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Ambulance services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-037ec6`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-for-commercial-strategy-implementation-for-urgent-care-pps-ocds-h6vhtk-037ec6#tl-md)

## Description
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is tendering for A&E Private Ambulance Services. SCAS has used Private Ambulance Services for over 10 years to supplement its internal capacity.  Following a strategic review of existing contracts, SCAS is planning to replace existing contracts, purchased under a dynamic purchasing system with longer term contracts to provide increased certainty and stability of private service provision. Services will be required 24 hours per day, 365 days per year including all public holidays.
The procurement activity is expected to commence in December 2022, with new contracts to be operational in the period June 2023 – December 2023. Existing contracts will be extended to support a phased transition to the new service.
SCAS is undertaking service and contract design activity and would encourage the input of interested suppliers via market engagement activity over November and December 2022.
We will commence with a market engagement event on 17th November at 13:30 pm.  This will be conducted as a hybrid face to face and online meeting.  Due to capacity limitations, attendance in person will be restricted to twAdd supplementary code
II.1.3. Type of contract
Services
II.1.4. Short description
(Maximum 4000 characters)
o delegates per supplier on an invitation only basis.  To register your interest in attending the event please contact Sandra Milburn at sandra.milburn@scas.nhs.uk.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 85143000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** To be confirmed following market engagement

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F031086-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-11-03T13:50:40.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T14:37:16.576Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-037ec6