The Urine Managed Service Contract covers processing of urine samples for Microscopy and positive culture set up. The refresh of the current contract aims to provide the same current service level as a minimum, however, to further improve workflow, the refresh is looking to explore and adopt technology advances. It is proposed the refresh includes automated culture readers and Antimicrobial Susceptibility reading embracing solutions available on the market that utilise AI, to improve patient outcomes and efficiency.
Market Engagement - Learning Disability Provision in the Residential, Nursing and Supported Living Sector - South Eastern Trust in Northern Ireland
Title: Market Engagement - Learning Disability Provision in the Residential, Nursing and Supported Living Sector - South Eastern Trust in Northern Ireland
Recent changes regarding capacity provision for Learning Disability placements in residential, nursing and supported living environments in the South Eastern Trust has resulted in pressures being placed on Trust services. As a result the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust are developing plans for the future of this provision across our Trust area and would like to talk to Learning Disability providers within the Northern Ireland market and potential new providers to the Northern Ireland market, to assist the Trust in developing future service provision.
The purpose of this Market Engagement is to gauge market interest, invite discussion on how best to develop these services including innovative approaches that could be taken.
If your organisation is interested, please email your expression of interest to
domcare.contracts@setrust.hscni.net
before 3pm on Friday 24th April 2026 and include the following:
1. Organisation Name;
2. Organisation Web address;
3. Brief description of services you currently provide including where these services are delivered;
4. Name, title and contact details for Organisation representatives that will attend discussions with the Trust (max 2 representatives).
Please include above title in your response.
Meetings with interested providers will be arranged for 30th April 2026 in the Trust area, alternatively conference calls can be arranged. Please indicate whether a meeting or conference call is preferable. Details of the venue, time of the meeting or call will be confirmed by return email.
See www.southeasterntrust.hscni.net for further details regarding the Trust.
Note - this is not a Call for Tender and there is no guarantee a procurement process will be run. Any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in a procurement exercise. Failure to show interest does not restrict providers from participating in any future procurement exercise.
South Eastern Health & Social Care TrustNorthern IrelandWAC-581292
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust are undertaking this Pre-Market Engagement for a Finance and Procurement Purchase to Pay System to better understand the market and help inform future procurement activity.
This preliminary market research is a Request For Information (RFI) to inform NHSBSA of a content management system. This will be used by NHSBSA.
Further details can be found in the RFI document itself. To access the RFI document and provide a response to NHSBSA, you will need to register via Atamis, the Health Family e-Commercial System (found at: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome).
Once you register an account, navigate towards the "View our Live Opportunities" page. From this page, you can find this specific RFI opportunity, with the following details:
Title: W230508 NHS Jobs Content Management System
Ref: C436583
This will allow you to access the documentation or register for the opportunity.
Any communication regarding this RFI should be made via the Messaging functionality within Atamis.
NHS Business Services AuthorityNorth EastWAC-578430
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and Synchronicity Care Limited are inviting suppliers to take part in pre-market engagement, to review the procurement opportunity to provide a lease car management service.
The suitable supplier must provide the administrative and management service of offering available cars to the employees of the trust; inclusive of salary sacrifice, salary deduction, lead-in vehicles and business use vehicles.
The pre-market engagement will contribute to finalising the Service Specification and Technical Questions, an Open Tender is expected to be published in Atamis in July 2026.
COUNTY DURHAM AND DARLINGTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTNorth EastWAC-578676
National Centre for Sport & Exercise Medicine-East Midlands: Healthcare Partner
Loughborough University, on behalf of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine – East Midlands (NCSEM-EM), is conducting pre-market engagement to explore viable healthcare partnership models for expanding clinical services, diagnostic imaging, and sport and exercise medicine provision at our Olympic legacy facility.
We seek market intelligence to inform whether to proceed to formal procurement and, if so, how best to structure specifications, commercial models, and procurement approach.
Partnership with healthcare provider(s) to operate and/or expand:
•Clinical services: Sport and exercise medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, orthopaedics
•Diagnostic imaging: 3T MRI, X-ray, DXA, ultrasound, C-arm fluoroscopy
•Operating model
Purpose-built facility at Loughborough University campus:
•11 clinical consulting rooms (~1,500 sq ft)
•343 sq m rehabilitation/gait laboratory
•Advanced diagnostic suite (3T MRI, X-ray, DXA, ultrasound, C-arm)
•Reception, IT infrastructure, security, parking
Any partner must:
•Hold (or be able to obtain) CQC registration for proposed services
•Demonstrate alignment with sport and exercise medicine focus (not general acute healthcare)
•Contribute to teaching / Research
This is an academic healthcare partnership, not a purely commercial tenancy.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Loughborough:-Health-services./ZBJ86Z66CZ
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/ZBJ86Z66CZ
This Pre-Market Engagement (PME) process is to allow the market the opportunity to assist, recommend and input into the development of NHS LPP’s new Clinical Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Framework Agreement prior to the release of the Invitation to Tender (ITT). The CAI framework will compliantly allow for both innovation of products/solutions within the lifetime of the framework, as well as maintain a comprehensive direct award mechanism for all framework suppliers and contracting authorities, by utilising the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023) Section 49 – Open Frameworks.
Open Frameworks facilitate growth, utilising this route to market enables NHS LPP’s ability to correspond to the increased demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) enablement across both the NHS and social care. The framework will be split into three lots: Direct Clinical Support, Indirect Clinical Support and NHS England’s Federated Data Platform Solution Exchange (FDP SX).
To participate, please search the live opportunities within the Atamis Health Family Portal, reference: C432964.
https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondonWAC-574099
Sustainable Waste Management and Recycling Services
NHS Shared Business Services Limited (NHS SBS) intends to put in place its 4th generation Framework for the provision of waste management services to be used by Approved Organisations for the following proposed Lots, which are under consideration during this preliminary market engagement (PLEASE NOTE: The proposed Framework is intended to cover the provision of waste management services, together with services and goods relating to waste minimisation, recycling, and resource recovery):
Lot 1 - Recycling and Waste Consultancy
Lot 2.1 - Sustainable Asset Management Solutions
Lot 2.2 - Waste Re‑Purposing Technological Platforms
Lot 3.1 - Clinical Healthcare Waste
Lot 3.2 - Re-usable Sharps
Lot 4 - Sanitary and Washroom Services
Lot 5.1 - Commercial and Household Waste: Healthcare and NHS
Lot 5.2 - Commercial and Household Waste: Local Authority and Wider Public Sector
Lot 5.3 - Food Recycling Management Services
Lot 5.4 - Hazardous Waste
Lot 5.5 - WEEE Waste
Lot 6 - Confidential Waste: Recycling, Destruction, and Disposal
Lot 7.1 - Recycling and Waste Minimisation Products: Food Waste Processing Equipment
Lot 7.2 - Recycling and Waste Minimisation Products: Compactors
Lot 7.3 - Recycling and Waste Minimisation Products: Bins
Lot 8.1 - Sustainable Waste Management Technology: Pyrolysis
Lot 8.2 - Sustainable Waste Management Technology: Microwave Solutions
Lot 9 - Total Recycling and Waste Management (TRWM)
NHS Shared Business Services LimitedLondonWAC-572483
Maintenance, Repair and Dose Mapping of GRS Gamma Irradiators
Preliminary Market Engagement ONLY and is separate from tender opportunity.
NHSBT wishes to hear from any Suppliers who have the capability, capacity and licence to provide Maintenance, Repair and Dose Mapping of existing NHSBT owned GRS Gamma Irradiators.
Any applicable suppliers should contact Samantha.rix@nhsbt.nhs.uk for further information by 24th April 2026.
HealthTrust Europe is establishing an Open Framework Agreement to appoint suppliers capable of providing a full range of Goods and Services, including: Managed Service Solutions, Dental Consumables, Orthodontic Materials, Dental Implants, Biologics and Facial Aesthetics, Practice Management Software, Dental Equipment and Pathway Solutions, and Mobile or Modular Dental Health Units.
It is intended the framework will be divided into the following lots:
Lot 1 Dental Solutions Managed Service incorporating a suite of goods and services:
Dental Consumables
Dental Equipment (inclusive of any ongoing Repairs, Maintenance and Total Asset Management)
Dental Patient Management Software Solutions
Clinical Dental Technicians and Workforce
Digital Dental Technologies
Dental Practice TurnKey / refurbishment Solutions
Dental Mobile/Modular Health Units
Lot 2 - Dental Consumables
Lot 3 - Orthodontic Materials
Lot 4 – Dental Implants, Biologics and Facial Aesthetics
Lot 5 – Practice Management Software Solutions
Lot 6- Dental Equipment and pathway solutions
Lot 7 - Mobile and modular units
The bodies to whom the use of this framework will be open include all contracting authorities in the United Kingdom as defined in Section 1 of the Procurement Act 2023.
In particular, the entities in the UK (especially those of a health and/or social care nature) listed in the downloadable spreadsheet at the following link are envisaged as framework users:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/economicstatisticsclassifications/introductiontoeconomicstatisticsclassifications
This list includes each organisation’s successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations, and associated organisations created due to any organisational changes.
This framework will be open to:
Any bodies or organisations operating in the UK of a health and/or social care nature;
Any organisations with similar procurement needs;
Any UK-based central government authority listed in Annex I of Directive 2014/24/EU, to the extent still relevant under retained EU law and consistent with the Procurement Act 2023.
The Independent Learning Responses Framework will replace what was previously known as the Independent Investigations Framework.
This proposed procurement is required to modernise and strengthen the independent investigations supply market, to align with national expectations for learning responses. The proposed framework will be used by NHS England independent investigation teams, national commissioning teams and other authorised NHS commissioners who require independent, system‑based investigations or assurance/learning reviews.
The framework will be divided into the proposed Lots:
Lot 1. Specialist Advisor Role(s)
Including: - Chair/Lead
- Clinical Expert
- Safety/Investigations Expert
- Family Liaison
Lot 2. Quality Governance Review
Lot 3. Patient Safety Incident Investigation
Lot 4. Thematic Review
Lot 5. Pathway/service Review
Lot 6. Post Response Impact Assurance Review
The open framework will run under the new regulations, the Procurement Act 2023 and under Light Touch Regime. The framework will run for a maximum of 8 years. The estimated start date for the framework agreement is 4th May 2027.
East Of England NHS Collaborative Hub c/o West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustWAC-574625
CS-People: Provision of Broker Services for Medical Insurance Scheme for CBS staff - British High Commission Dar es Salaam
The purpose of the Tender is to identify a single medical aid brokerage service provider in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to deliver comprehensive health insurance solutions aligned with organizational needs, local regulations, and cost-efficiency goals. The contract will be for a period of 3 years with an option to renew for 2 years subject to good performance of the service provide
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeLondonWAC-583884
Provision of medical aid insurance at British Embassy Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Service Provider will be required to provide medical cover to members of staff and their dependents registered under the policy to an identified appropriate ceiling and premium per family.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeLondonWAC-583196
Theatres Managed Service - Request for Information
GHFT (Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) “the Authority” invites Bidders to respond to a Preliminary Market Engagement exercise for a Theatres Managed Equipment Service
GHFT is embarking on the re-procurement of its Theatres Managed Equipment Service (MES). The Trust currently operates a Theatres MES valued at approximately £25m per year, including equipment provision, theatre related consumables, sterile services, refurbishment, engineering support, specialist cleaning, waste management, and facilities maintenance across both Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital.
The current contract is approaching the end of its full term, and the Trust are looking to explore the re-procurement of the Theatres MES. As the development of the future service model and commercial strategy progresses, we are seeking valuable insight and expertise from suppliers with the capability to deliver a comprehensive Theatres MES, required to operate the surgical facilities across both sites, in addition to potential wider expansion across adjacent areas including interventional radiology, cardiology, endoscopy, and other areas
This Preliminary Market Engagement is being administered in line with PA23 procedures.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWAC-582357
Invitation to Supplier Engagement Session: NHS England – Workforce, Training and Education (WTE)
NHS England’s Workforce, Training and Education (WTE) Directorate is inviting suppliers from across the education and training sector who currently work with, or are interested in working with, NHS training programmes to attend an upcoming supplier engagement session.
Purpose of the session
This session will provide suppliers with early insight into the strategic priorities, future direction, and planned activity of the WTE Directorate. It will also offer an opportunity to improve understanding of how NHS England approaches commercial engagement and how suppliers can best position themselves for future opportunities.
What suppliers can expect
Attendees will hear directly from colleagues across WTE and commercial teams on:
• The pipeline of planned activity and forthcoming procurement across workforce education and training
• Strategic priorities and direction of the WTE Directorate
• How WTE is shaping and delivering education and training to support the NHS workforce
• Commercial practices and expectations, including key principles that underpin NHS England procurement
• Practical guidance on how suppliers can monitor opportunities and set themselves up for success
There will also be opportunities for questions and discussion to support shared understanding and transparency.
Who should attend
This session is aimed at organisations across the workforce education and training sector, with experience of delivering, or interest in delivering, services to NHS training programmes. Attendance is open to both existing and prospective suppliers.
Next steps
Please register your interest by registering on our procurement portal here: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome and searching for C435457.
Suppliers are encouraged to attend to gain valuable insight into future opportunities and to support constructive engagement with NHS England.
If there are key questions that you would like NHS England to answer on the day you can submit these via the Atamis portal once registered and NHS England will do our best to respond. If you are unable to attend, please register and we can share any materials after the event.
Date & Time
To be held online on May 6th 2026 (time TBC). Sharing instructions will be sent to suppliers who register their interest following the above process.
PLEASE NOTE THIS NOTICE IS BEING USED TO INVITE SUPPLIERS TO AN INFORMATION SHARING SESSION THAT WILL COVER MULTIPLE PROCUREMENTS AND IS NOT LINKED TO A SINGLE PROCUREMENT
NHS National Framework for Aripiprazole prolonged release injection
Project title: NHS National Framework for Aripiprazole prolonged release injection
Offer reference number: CM/TNS/26/5741
Period of framework: 1 November 2026 to 31 October 2027 with an option or options to extend (at the Authority’s discretion) for a period or periods up to a total of 24 months.
Published By: Medicines Procurement and Supply Chain - NHS Medicines Value & Access, NHS England
NHS National Framework for RALTEGRAVIR 400mg tablets, Etravirine 200mg tablets, Ritonavir 100mg
Project title: NHS National Framework for RALTEGRAVIR 400mg tablets, Etravirine 200mg tablets, Ritonavir 100mg
Offer reference number: CM/TNS/26/5745
Period of framework: 1 November 2026 to 31 October 2027 with an option or options to extend (at the Authority’s discretion) for a period or periods up to a total of 24 months.
Published By: Medicines Procurement and Supply Chain - NHS Medicines Value & Access, NHS England