Stale Pre-tender

Market Engagement - oral nutritional supplements for care homes

Details

Value
£500,000
Topic
Homogenised food preparations
Published
17 July 2025
Submission
4 August 2025

Tender description

The University of Plymouth is leading the REFRESH trial to compare the effectiveness of oral nutritional supplements (ONS) and of food fortification with routine care. We are looking to procure ONS to supply to the care homes assigned. This will be approximately 30 care homes situated in Devon, West Midlands and Dorset & Hampshire, to give to a total of 510 residents, during the active study phase Oct 25 to May 28. To view more detail of the study please visit: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/penctu/refresh-trial

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published17 July 2025
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About the buyer

University of Plymouth is a higher education institution with its own procurement team based at Drake Circus. Membership of the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium gives access to shared higher education framework agreements. Suppliers are chosen through competitive tendering, or through quotations for lower-value purchases. No approved supplier list exists, only individual contracts and framework arrangements.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Plymouth's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and electrical equipment and lighting.

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