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Awarded contract

Clinical and Sharps Waste Management 2023

Details

Buyer
NHS Supply Chain
Supplier(s)
14 suppliers
Value
£69,840,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Medical consumables
Published
20 June 2023
Source
uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Clinical and Sharps Waste Management covers the disposal of all sharps and non-sharp medical waste. This includes waste containers such as polypropylene based sharps and non-sharps containers, board-based containers and swab holders as well as sharps management products such as sharps pads, sharps boxes and blade removers. Precise quantities are unknown. It is anticipated that initial expenditure will be in the region of £16.4m to £17.5m in the first year of this Framework Agreement, however this is approximate only and the values may vary depending on the requirements of those bodies purchasing under the Framework Agreement.

Timeline

  1. Award published20 June 2023
    Current notice
  2. Award date23 October 2023
  3. Contract expiry date22 October 2027in 13 months

About the buyer

NHS Supply Chain buys as a central healthcare organisation, run by Supply Chain Coordination Limited on behalf of NHS England. Suppliers tender through the Jaggaer eProcurement portal, and opportunities above threshold are advertised on Find a Tender. Successful bids are listed on framework agreements managed by category teams. The NHS Core List aggregates trust demand into national contracts for standard commodities. Category teams coordinate key supply markets with NHS England and clinical networks. Procurement follows the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025.

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 NHS Supply Chain's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, food and drink and furniture and furnishings.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33140000 · Medical consumables

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