SWB - Supportive Discharge Transport Service

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust is leading an open procedure for a bespoke supportive discharge transport service, with The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust named as an optional beneficiary. The service is intended for vulnerable patients, often including frail or elderly people, whose discharge depends on precisely timed transport and coordination with health and social care partners.

The provider must use appropriate vehicles, help ensure that patients are safe and settled at their destination, and accommodate ad hoc journey elements such as collecting discharge medication from a pharmacy.

The official structured notice records one active lot, a value of £250,000 excluding VAT and £300,000 including VAT, and a three-year initial term from 1 February 2027 to 31 January 2030, with two possible 12-month extensions to 31 January 2032.

The narrative notice contains an invalid end date of 31 September 2030; suppliers should use the structured dates as the published contract fields and confirm the definitive term in the procurement documents. The public Atamis page confirms reference C485549, the buyer, the open-procedure route and the response deadline, but states that no documents are publicly viewable.