Planning

Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy

NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

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25 Jul 2025 at 14:26

Planning

25 Jul 2025 at 12:48

Planning

19 Mar 2025 at 14:02

Summary of the contracting process

The NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board, along with NHS Somerset and NHS Devon Integrated Care Boards, is conducting a preliminary market engagement for the procurement of Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy. This procurement initiative, managed by the NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, aims to reevaluate the collection and disposal of clinical and pharmaceutical waste across the South West region. The process is currently in the planning stage with a milestone set for feedback on the market engagement questionnaire by the 15th of August 2025. It is expected that the formal tendering process will commence in November 2025. The procurement is classified under services, particularly focusing on clinical waste management, and is anticipated to have a contract value up to £6,000,000, spanning from 2026 to 2031, with potential renewals extending to 2035.

This tender offers significant growth opportunities for businesses specialising in clinical waste management, disposal, and recycling, especially those able to deliver sustainable, safe, and cost-efficient services. Companies offering innovative waste treatment solutions and possessing capabilities in providing both reusable and single-use containers, along with decontamination services, would be well-suited to compete for this contract. Small to medium enterprises capable of ensuring compliance, effective waste tracking, and data management are particularly encouraged to engage with this procurement process, providing them a chance to secure long-term partnerships with NHS organizations in the South West.

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Notice Title

Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy

Notice 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 6. Decontamination of reusable containers for clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste 7. 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 .

Planning Information

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: https://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.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043231-2025
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services


CPV Codes

90524100 - Clinical-waste collection services

90524200 - Clinical-waste disposal services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£5,000,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
25 Jul 20257 months ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
1 Nov 2025Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2031 Over 5 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
Additional Buyers

MISSING

NHS BRISTOL NORTH SOMERSET & SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

NHS DEVON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

NHS SOMERSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT (HOSTED BY NHS ENGLAND)

Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
d-icb.contracting@nhs.net, helena.fuller1@nhs.net, scwcsu.clinical.procurement@nhs.net, scwcsu.procurement@nhs.net
Contact Phone
Not specified

Buyer Location

Locality
BRISTOL
Postcode
BS1 6AG
Post Town
Bristol
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLJ South East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLJ35 South Hampshire
Delivery Location
TLK1 Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area, TLK2 Dorset and Somerset, TLK4 Devon

Local Authority
Eastleigh
Electoral Ward
Eastleigh Central
Westminster Constituency
Eastleigh

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