Unawarded contract
This contract will not be signed.
Date of decision not to sign contract
14 November 2025
Reason for not signing contract
On 29th October 2025, it was announced that South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) and South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust (SECAmb) would move to a group model, the 'South Central and South East Ambulance Group'. The group will share a single Chief Executive and Chairperson, to strategically align ambulance services within the South East Region, and will collaborate on "digital innovation, clinical best practice, and workforce development". This collaboration is underpinned by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two Trusts, in which both Trusts have committed to a collaborative approach to service transformation, including joint procurement opportunities. On 14th November 2025, it was formally agreed by both Trusts that alignment of a 999 CAD system would form part of the collaborative model and underpin the strategic collaboration, and therefore would be subject to a joint collaborative tender for the two Trusts. Therefore, SCAS would abandon its current tender process in order for both Trusts to tender collaboratively.
Contracting authority
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PVXR-6533-XJPY
Unit 7 & 8 Talisman Business Centre, Talisman Road
Bicester
OX26 6HR
United Kingdom
Email: ben.jones@scas.nhs.uk
Website: https://www.scas.nhs.uk/
Region: UKJ14 - Oxfordshire
Organisation type: Public authority - central government