Provision of Private, Safe, and Secure Transportation for Patients within Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Service Group.
- Buyer
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Value
- £623,602
- Closes
- 26 November 2026
- Where
- Port Talbot, Wales
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Swansea Bay University Health Board, which runs NHS services in south west Wales, wants to set up a panel of approved transport suppliers. Those suppliers will carry patients from mental health and learning disabilities services safely and securely between hospitals, specialist units, community settings, courts and other approved locations. The estimated value is £623,602.
What the buyer wants
• Provide planned and urgent passenger transport for patients with a range of clinical, behavioural, safeguarding and mobility needs, including secure or supervised journeys where required. • Staff the service with drivers and escorts who are DBS checked, trained in safeguarding and de-escalation, and able to treat patients with dignity. • Keep to the Health Board's policies, statutory duties and value-for-money expectations, and be ready to join the panel and take call-off work as it arises.
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
A business without a suitable, well-maintained fleet of accessible vehicles, DBS-checked staff with safeguarding and de-escalation training, or the insurance and financial standing the tender sets out would most likely be excluded.
How to bid
This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.
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