Stale Pre-tender

Express Freight Service

Details

Value
£3,384,000
Topic
Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
Published
28 April 2025
Submission
5 June 2025

Tender description

We are intending to procure for an express / emergency capability to help maintain the uninterrupted supply of medical products where there is an urgent need and/or where a suppliers' own logistics arrangements may be disrupted. If you would like to register your interest to attend the market engagement event for this procurement, please email Stuart Merritt at the Department of Health and Social Care by 5pm on Monday 2nd June 2025 (stuart.merritt@dhsc.gov.uk)

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published28 April 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

The Department of Health and Social Care sets health and social care policy for England, and buys as a central healthcare organisation through contracts tiered by value. Suppliers register on Atamis, the department's e-tendering portal, to see live opportunities. Larger contracts also appear on Find a Tender once government thresholds are passed. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service. Every contract carries a 30-day payment term under the Procurement Act 2023.

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 the Department of Health and Social Care's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 60000000 · Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
  • 60160000 · Mail transport by road
  • 60400000 · Air transport services
  • 60420000 · Non-scheduled air transport services
  • 60423000 · Air-charter services
  • 60600000 · Water transport services
  • 63100000 · Cargo handling and storage services
  • 63521000 · Freight transport agency services
  • 64100000 · Post and courier services
  • 64120000 · Courier services
  • 64121000 · Multi-modal courier services
  • 64121200 · Parcel delivery services

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