Funeral Services
Description: The University requests tenders from sufficiently experienced and qualified suppliers to establish a contract for the provision of Funeral Services. The School of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is responsible for the teaching of anatomy to undergraduate and post-graduate students across several medical related specialties, including trainee doctors and surgeons. The school strongly advocates the principle that working with real human bodies provides the best teaching experience for students within the University. To ensure the donor remains are handled and disposed of in a dignified, respectful and reverential manner, the Supplier shall be required to: - collect donor bodies and deliver to the Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre (QMC). Services to include the provision of suitably prepared coffins, transportation from QMC to a (read more...)
Summary: The University of Nottingham is procuring funeral services for its School of Life Sciences, which teaches anatomy to undergraduate and postgraduate students, including trainee doctors and surgeons. The service supports the respectful handling and final arrangements for donated human bodies used in medical education. The supplier will collect donor bodies and deliver them to the Medical School at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. It must provide suitably prepared coffins, transport remains from Queen’s Medical Centre to a place of rest, and manage the associated arrangements. The work requires careful treatment of donor remains, with respect for the wishes of deceased donors and their families. The procurement is for funeral and related body-handling services, classified under CPV 98371000, with delivery activity in the United Kingdom.