Official UK procurement notice
Provision of a Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS)
Authority: NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (Central government)·Consortium: 5 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement description***This notice is for information only***
NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB wish to signal their intent to carry out a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 in the near future. The ICB intends to follow up this notice in due course to advertise a market engagement event to enable all interested parties to learn more about the intended service. Further information regarding the market engagement event and any associated published material will be made available both via a further advert on the Find a Tender Service and via the Atamis Health Family system. Please note that no further information will be available until a further notice is published.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 69 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid23%
2–331%
4–624%
7+22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate51%
Within ±2%44%
Above estimate5%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8510Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 87 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–331%
4–624%
7+22%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contract | Non-Emergency Patient Transportnotice published Apr 2026 | — | £42m | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
55% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
55% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (55% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Non-Emergency Patient Transport — held by West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 May 2026, 14:21 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2026, 14:21 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048828- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a3c0Find a Tender
Publisher note: This notice is placed under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (PSR). Any award of contract which may occur following the placement of this notice will be made subject to the provisions of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply save for those provisions specified by the Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published151 days ago26 May 2026, 14:21 BST
- Tender notice expected53 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
5 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Black Country Integrated Care BoardContracting authority
- NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care BoardContracting authority
- NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care BoardContracting authority
- NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care BoardContracting authority
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.