Official UK procurement notice
Cheshire and Merseyside ICS - Linen and Laundry Services
Authority: MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (NHS & healthcare)·On behalf of: HealthTrust Europe LLP
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLinen and Laundry Services including collection, wash, finish, return and linen hire.
The service includes processing (wash and finish), transportation (collection and return) and linen hire (inc. mops) service.
Service Requirements include:
- A linen hire service.
- Processing (wash and finish) service for hired linen and/ or Participating Authority’s owned linen.
- Linen and laundry transportation (collection and delivery) service to and from Participating Authority site locations/ designated pick up and drop off points.
- Express Service (collection, wash, finish, and return) for Participating Authority’s owned linen where requested.
- Any other product or service that is determined to be within scope of linen and laundry services
CPV: Hospital linen
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 May 2025, 15:22 BST
- Last source update
- 12 May 2025, 15:22 BST
- Authority reference
PR-3917- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-020568- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051131Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 May 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published12 May 2025, 15:22 BST
- Market engagement12 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
Cheshire and Merseyside ICS (the ICS) has engaged the services of HealthTrust Europe (HTE), to support in the renewal of Linen and Laundry Service contracts.
The engagement will be conducted through meetings. Each supplier that has expressed an interest to take part in this pre-market engagement will receive a Supplier Briefing Pack which contains details of the Contracting Authorities in scope, overview of current position, current linen requirements, Agenda for the meeting and issues the Trusts intend to overcome through the resulting procurement. Suppliers will be invited to a meeting to present to stakeholders from the Contracting Authority and HealthTrust Europe.
Date of Pre-Market Engagement Meetings: Wednesday 11th June 2025and Thursday 12th June 2025
Venue: TBC
Time of Meetings: To be arranged directly with Supplier
Representatives from the Trusts: This will include representatives from Procurement, Facilities and Linen Services across the Trusts.
Representatives from the Supplier: No more than 2 representatives – names to be provided prior to arrival
The engagement exercises aims to establish the following
- Developing the authority’s requirements and approach to the procurement;
- Designing a procedure, conditions of participation or award criteria;
- Preparing the tender notice and associated tender documents;
- Identifying suppliers that may be able to supply the goods, services or works required;
- Identify likely contractual terms; and
- Building capacity among suppliers in relation to the contract being awarded.
Expression of Interest should be made to: demelza.leadbetter@htepg.com
- Tender notice expected1 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts57 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 May 2025, 15:22 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
8 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Countess of ChesterContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- HealthTrust Europe LLPProcess contact pointProcuring entityOn 11th August 2021, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE) published a contract notice for procurement partner services. HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) was selected to provide these services under the MSE Framework, including access to HTE's public sector frameworks. HTE is now conducting this procurement exercise as part of its services to the Customers under the MSE Framework.
- Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender