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title: "SWB - Supportive Discharge Transport Service"
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# SWB - Supportive Discharge Transport Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/swb-supportive-discharge-transport-service-ocds-h6vhtk-078fd3). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: "SWB - Supportive Discharge Transport Service". Published status: active. Published Value: £250,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: health-family.force.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (open for submissions, 28 days left when this document was generated)
- **Buyer:** [Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/sandwell-and-west-birmingham-hospitals-nhs-trust-nhs-rxk)
- **Published Value:** £250,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 23 November 2026 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Special-purpose road passenger-transport services
- **Delivery Location:** UK, UKG3, UKG36, UKG37
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/swb-supportive-discharge-transport-service-ocds-h6vhtk-078fd3#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-078fd3`

## 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/swb-supportive-discharge-transport-service-ocds-h6vhtk-078fd3#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [health-family.force.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhealth-family.force.com%2Fs%2FWelcome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/swb-supportive-discharge-transport-service-ocds-h6vhtk-078fd3#participate

## Description
This Tender process is being undertaken on behalf of the Black Country ICS Trusts (The Authority/Authorities) as named below:
• Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust
• The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (optional beneficiary)
A bespoke solution is required to support patients who rely on a supportive and specifically-timed transport service to co-ordinate complex discharge plans – for example, to be sure to have returned home at a specific time for a same-day social care assessment. Before the inception of a bespoke transport solutions for this patient cohort, patients were facing delays and system resource was wasted through delays in the standard patient transport offer. 
By nature, this bespoke service supports those who are vulnerable, and often frail / elderly, and such a service also requires a short additional period to ensure the person is safe and well at their destination – for example, ensuring the heating is on and that they have access to food and fluids until the care agency attend. 
Finally, the ability to include ad-hoc journeys e.g. travelling via a pharmacy to collect discharge medications, before collecting the person and taking them home, represents improved patient experience, reduction in risk and facilitates timely discharges, which might otherwise add hours or even days to a person’s hospital stay.
The Trust is committed to providing a high quality, patient focussed service. This specification reflects the overall requirements of the Trust’s requirements for a supportive transport service, for patients to be conveyed in appropriate vehicles and for their discharge arrangements to be reliably co-ordinated between system partners.
The initial contract period is estimated to be 01/02/2027 to 31/09/2030 (3 years) with the option to extend for up to 2 further years.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 60130000
- **Delivery regions:** UK, UKG
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £250,000

- **Contract Period:** 01/02/2027 to 31/01/2030
- **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%2F100854-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-10-26T10:12:43.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T14:32:13.277Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-078fd3