According to Brenda Heidinga, FNV Taxi is delighted that the Silver Cross purchasing procedure for seated patient transport has ended in failure. No valid registrations have been made with the health insurer for the new national contract.Minke Jansma, driver of the FNV Taxi, is pleased with this development: 'Prior to the purchasing procedure, the FNV made it clear that the prices that carriers had to register for were unrealistically low. So low that working conditions for drivers are also under pressure. We call on Zilveren Kruis to adjust the purchasing procedure and increase the amounts to a price for which good quality transport can be provided and for which drivers can be properly paid. '

Procurement procedure Seated patient transport fiasco due to unrealistic amounts.

Jansma thinks it is a strong signal from the sector that transporters have not gone along in this race to the bottom. 'Transporters apparently do not allow themselves to be fooled and realize that they themselves have an important responsibility to make realistic registrations. We call on carriers to maintain this position. "

The Silver Cross purchasing procedure has recently come under fire. The unrealistic amount that carriers could register for indicated a bandwidth between € 1,08 and € 1,22 per kilometer driven with the customer. In addition, there was a starting rate of 6 paid kilometers, but on longer journeys, only the loaded kilometers were paid. Jansma: 

"We have indicated both by letter and in conversation with Zilveren Kruis that they will further strengthen the race downwards with this purchasing procedure."

FNV Taxi likes to enter into discussions with Zilveren Kruis to arrive at a realistic price. 25.000 taxi drivers work in health care transport, some of whom work for the transport of health insurers.