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Published 19 Mar 2025, 14:02 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy

Official notice

Authority: NHS Bristol North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (Central government)·On behalf of: NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (hosted by NHS England)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Cleaning & Environmental Services (90) Delivery: South West (UKK1)
Planned pipeline value£5,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Mar 2031 · up to 31 Mar 2035 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is placed to inform the market of the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) for NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG),

Somerset and Devon (the Authorities 's), intention to recommission Healthcare Waste Collection in Primary Care and Community Pharmacy.

The Authorities would like to understand the level of provider interest in delivering these services and requests feedback from experienced organisations using a Market Engagement Questionnaire.

This is the second round of market engagement for this requirement, following a previous market engagement (REF2025/S 000-010158) published 19th March 2025 . The specification and supporting documentation has been updated significantly since then and we would encourage all interested parties that have previously submitted market engagement responses to view our updated question set and respond accordingly. Equally we also welcome newly interested parties to engage with and respond to our question set.

The service will provide a Primary Care and pharmacy medical waste collection and disposal/recycling for the 3 ICBs in the South West;

•NHS Devon ICB

•NHS Somerset ICB

•NHS Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire ICB

These 3 ICBs are looking to re-procure in the near future (anticipated to be tendered in Nov 2025), all of their current contracts for Primary Care Clinical Waste Collection and disposal/recycling predominantly and Community Pharmacy. The intended service for tender include:

  1. Collection & transport of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste.
  2. Storage of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste
  3. Treatment of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste
  4. Incineration of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste
  5. Provision of reusable and single use containers for

clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste

  1. Decontamination of reusable containers for

clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste

  1. Promoting waste segregation and compliance

8.Clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste tracking and data The purpose of this notice is to provide a summary of the services to be procured, share the service specification and to

obtain feedback that will help support a safe, sustainable, environmentally effective and cost-efficient quality service.

TUPE may apply to this process.

Please register your interest to access the supporting documentation and provide feedback by answering the Market

Engagement Questionnaire against this project by 17:00 on 15/08/25

This exercise is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Authorities .

CPV: Clinical-waste collection services · Clinical-waste disposal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2035 with extensions
Delivery: South WestEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
90524100 Clinical-waste collection services90524200 Clinical-waste disposal services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
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
19 Mar 2025, 14:02 GMT
Last source update
25 Jul 2025, 15:26 BST
Authority reference
C377027
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-043231
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Clinical-waste collection servicesClinical-waste disposal services
Delivery area
South West (UKK1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

19 Mar 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    19 Mar 2025, 14:02 GMT
  2. Latest notice published
    25 Jul 2025, 15:26 BST
  3. Market engagement
    15 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST

    The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is to provide a summary of the services to be procured, share the service specification and to obtain feedback that will help

    support a safe, sustainable, environmentally effective and cost-efficient quality service.

    Please register your interest to access the supporting documentation and provide feedback by answering the Market Engagement Questionnaire against this project by 15th of August

    2025. Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities'

    from the home page, available on the following link: healthfamily.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

    Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function,

    using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the relevant information and market engagement questionnaire, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. You will find the project titled; W151059 - Market Engagement 2, Healthcare Waste BNSSG, Devon and Somerset with the Atamis reference C377027.

    The Supplier Documents folder contains the draft service specification and supporting documentation. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit your expression of interest using the correspondence function within Atamis. This event is an information gathering exercise

    rather than initiating a competitive procurement process; and therefore publication or response does not commit the ICBs or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any

    process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest.

  4. Tender notice expected361 days ago
    1 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts211 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Mar 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 Mar 2025, 14:02 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    25 Jul 2025, 13:48 BST
    UK2
  3. Buyer details updated
    25 Jul 2025, 13:48 BST
  4. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    25 Jul 2025, 15:26 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Clarification of 2nd round of Market engagement.

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

5 public bodies on the notice

NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: QUY · GB-PPON: PPCD-6597-HCDW Floor 2, North Wing, 100 Temple Street, Bristol, South West, BS1 6AGContact email

Consortium members and other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure