Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Private Ambulance Services for Emergency (A&E/Blue Light)
Authority: East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of Private Ambulance Services for Emergency (A&E/Blue Light)
CPV: Ambulance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) covers the six counties which make up the East of EnglandPublished value£41,666,666
- Variant bids
- not allowed
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- price
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) — and who usually turns up
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust’s own published record, next to the East of England market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 8514 · 1 in division 85 · 12 in all categories (3 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 25).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 9 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 3 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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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 this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 48 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 9 notices.
East of England · Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514)
framework/DPS notices delivered in East of England in 36 months: 19 in CPV 8514 (14 competed, 2 route not published) · 218 in division 85 (135 competed, 37 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8514), last 36 months: 4 lots. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 10) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 25).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8514), last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 26 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 111 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8514), last 36 months: 57 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 9 lots (all categories), applied to the £41,666,666 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 17:11 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 17:11 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT — …
- Authority reference
26-T03 - C467306- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078126
- Review procedure
Any review proceedings should be promptly brought to the attention of the Chief<br/>Executive Officer of East of England Ambulance Services, Ambulance Headquarters,<br/>Whiting Way, Melbourn, SG8 6NA and will be dealt with in accordance with the<br/>requirements of the Provider Selection Regime. Any review proceedings more…
must be brought<br/>within the timescales specified by the applicable law. The Trust will incorporate a<br/>minimum 10 calendar day standstill period from the date information on the award of the<br/>contract is communicated to bidders.
How to participate & submission route
Apply via Atamis (Health Family)Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Notice publishedjust passed5 Oct 2026, 17:11 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsin 32 days · period end, not a bid countdown6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 32 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court and Court of Appeal of England and WalesReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.