Stale Pre-tender

Supply of Industrial Laundry Detergent, Dosing Equipment & Associated Services

Details

Buyer: Ministry of Justice
Value: £4,550,000
Topic: Laundry supplies
Published: 21 May 2025
Submission: 10 July 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) currently operates 27 industrial laundries across prisons in England and Wales, as well as 7 smaller launderettes dedicated to processing prisoners' personal clothing. These facilities are critical to maintaining hygiene standards and decency within our estate. We are preparing to issue a new tender for the supply of laundry chemicals across our estate. In advance of this, we wish to engage with the supplier market to ensure our proposed approach is robust, commercially viable, and conducive to encouraging broad supplier participation. The purpose of this engagement is to: Share our initial thinking on the scope, structure, and requirements of the upcoming tender. Gather supplier feedback on the viability and attractiveness of our proposed procurement strategy. Identify any barriers to participation and discuss how these might be mitigated. Invite innovative suggestions that could improve service quality, sustainability, or value for money.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published21 May 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

The Ministry of Justice is a central government ministerial department with its own Commercial Standards team providing procurement guidance. Procurement now follows the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025. Higher-value contracts appear on Find a Tender, with Contracts Finder used for lower-value opportunities. Suppliers register and bid through the MOJ Sourcing Portal, the department's e-procurement platform. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems. HM Courts and Tribunals Service, HM Prison and Probation Service and the Legal Aid Agency are the department's main delivery bodies.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Ministry of Justice's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and public administration and defence.

Relevant CPV codes

39291000 · Laundry supplies
98311200 · Laundry-operation services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@ministry-of-justice.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@ministry-of-justice.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@ministry-of-justice.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@ministry-of-justice.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@ministry-of-justice.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@ministry-of-justice.gov