Stale Pre-tender

Anti-embolism Stockings, Lymphoedema Products, Compression Devices & Accessories

Details

Buyer: NHS National Services Scotland
Value: £1,200,000
Topic: Medical consumables
Published: 25 July 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This PIN (Prior information Notice) is for the renewal of Anti-embolism Stockings, Lymphoedema Products, Compression Devices & Accessories. National Procurement are giving notice of the release for the renewal of current NP536/18 Anti-embolism Stockings, Compression Devices & Accessories & Lymphoedema Products, scheduled for week commencing 11th August 2025. We will be retendering within the following specifications, still to be confirmed, for consumables & equipment: Anti-Embolism Stockings (Non-mechanical), Prevention DVT (Mechanical), Compression Pumps, Lymphoedema products & Accessories. Compression Products Flat Knit (RAL Standard), Round Knit (British Standard), Round Knit (RAL Standard), Hosiery Kit, Inelastic Adjustable Compression Garments, Compression Stroke Patient & Consumables. Please hold the following dates in your diary; Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th September 2025 for potential framework participants functional evaluations in person for lots submitted covering compression pumps (or equivalent). At National Services Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB. An additional desktop evaluation will also be completed on the same dates for consumables undertaken by our clinical advisory panel. Potential framework participants are not required to attend in person for the desktop evaluation. Sample requirements will be provided in the tender documentation and will detail delivery dates & products to be sent to National Services Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB in advance of the evaluation dates. Lot 1: We will be retendering within the following specifications, still to be confirmed, for consumables & equipment: Anti-Embolism Stockings (Non-mechanical), Prevention DVT (Mechanical), Compression Pumps, Lymphoedema products & Accessories. Compression Products Flat Knit (RAL Standard), Round Knit (British Standard), Round Knit (RAL Standard), Hosiery Kit, Inelastic Adjustable Compression Garments, Compression Stroke Patient & Consumables. Additional information: Lot structure will be provided in the finalised tender documentation.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published25 July 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

NHS National Services Scotland is a national healthcare body serving NHS Scotland, and its National Procurement arm is Scotland's largest procurement organisation. Tenders are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland under the buyer name Common Services Agency. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. Each contract record on the register names the framework, its dates, the winning suppliers and the National Procurement contract owner. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland. Innovative products can be submitted through an online innovation portal.

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 National Services Scotland's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

33140000 · Medical consumables

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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