Published date: 9 April 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 23 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Other services - 98390000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£13,356

Procurement reference

101099

Published date

9 April 2018

Closing date

23 February 2018

Contract start date

1 March 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2018

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The ambulance sector of the NHS in England has a long history of working with volunteers. Traditionally, they have almost exclusively been involved in non-urgent patient transport (e.g. hospital car service, patient escorts) and as community first responders. However, emerging findings from the Q-Volunteering programme are increasing interest in working with volunteers in other ways. In particular, there is interest in using them as a peer resource to increase patients' ability for self-care (thereby reducing repeat calls and demand for ambulance conveyance), and working with volunteers in a more flexible range of ways, highly dependent on local context and priorities of the local health and care system, rather than only the traditional relatively narrow range of involvement.


Award information

Awarded date

28 February 2018

Contract start date

1 March 2018

Contract end date

31 May 2018

Total value of contract

£13,356

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The kings fund

Address

11-13 Cavendish Square,
London,
W1G 0AN

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Callum Tolladay

Address

100 Parliament Street
London
SW1A 2BQ
England

Telephone

020 7211 6824 ext 6824

Email

Callum.Tolladay@culture.gov.uk