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Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy

  • NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
  • NHS DEVON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
  • NHS SOMERSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-043139

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15 (view related notices)

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Scope

Reference

C377027

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.

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 Authorises .

Total value (estimated)

  • £5,000,000 excluding VAT
  • £6,000,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2031
  • Possible extension to 31 March 2035
  • 9 years

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 90524100 - Clinical-waste collection services
  • 90524200 - Clinical-waste disposal services

Contract locations

  • UKK1 - Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
  • UKK2 - Dorset and Somerset
  • UKK4 - Devon

Engagement

Engagement deadline

15 August 2025

Engagement process description

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.


Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)


Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

1 November 2025


Contracting authorities

NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

  • NHS Organisation Data Service: QUY
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PPCD-6597-HCDW

Floor 2, North Wing, 100 Temple Street

Bristol

BS1 6AG

United Kingdom

Region: UKK11 - Bristol, City of

Organisation type: Public authority - central government

NHS DEVON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

  • NHS Organisation Data Service: QJK
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PRDC-6266-CBRR

Aperture House, Pynes Hill, Rydon Lane,

Exeter

EX2 5AZ

United Kingdom

Region: UKK43 - Devon CC

Organisation type: Public authority - central government

NHS SOMERSET INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWYW-4754-LMYV

2nd Floor Mallard Court Express Park Bristol Road

Bridgwater

TA6 4RN

United Kingdom

Region: UKK23 - Somerset

Organisation type: Public authority - central government


Other organisation

These organisations are carrying out the procurement, or part of it, on behalf of the contracting authorities.

NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (hosted by NHS England)

Summary of their role in this procurement: Procurement Advisor

  • NHS Organisation Data Service: 0DF
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PXTZ-5316-XWPW

Omega House, 112 Southampton Road

Eastleigh

SO50 5PB

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ35 - South Hampshire


Contact organisation

Contact NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (hosted by NHS England) for any enquiries.