Awarded contract

Hydration Units

Details

Buyer: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Supplier(s): CoolerAid Ltd
Value: £152,100
Duration: 5 years
Topic: Water coolers
Published: 9 September 2022
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) sought the provision and availability of Hydration Unit services to provide cooled drinking water, across the Trust's estate. The service includes the annual rental for 36 x Bottle Refill Station/Hydration Stations based on a 60-month agreement including all ongoing maintenance, 6 monthly sanitisation and filter changes, full breakdown cover, call out charges, parts, and labour. This contract was awarded to Cooleraid Ltd via a direct award on the ESPO Framework 900W- Model Variation.

Timeline

Completed: Award date2 September 2022
Completed: Award published9 September 2022
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date27 October 2027in 13 months

About the buyer

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust runs acute and specialist hospital care across Nottingham, and buys as a Healthcare provider with supplier invoices processed through NHS SBS. Five sites, including Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, deliver the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre. Around 20,000 staff support patient care across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Suppliers are paid under a no purchase order, no pay policy. The trust partners with Medilink East Midlands on the INSTILS programme to engage medtech suppliers.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust's contract awards have been in IT services, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

31141000 · Water coolers

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nottingham-university-hospitals-nhs-trust.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nottingham-university-hospitals-nhs-trust.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nottingham-university-hospitals-nhs-trust.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nottingham-university-hospitals-nhs-trust.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nottingham-university-hospitals-nhs-trust.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nottingham-university-hospitals-nhs-trust.gov