Consultant SME - for Catering Managed Services Tender

About the buyer

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust runs Broomfield, Basildon and Southend hospitals as a single NHS trust serving central and south Essex. Suppliers register and bid for opportunities through Atamis, the Trust's e-procurement and contract-management platform. HealthTrust Europe operates as an extension of the Trust's own procurement team under a partnership agreement. A strict no purchase order, no pay policy applies to every supplier. Every purchase requires a form of contract before goods or services are supplied.

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 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in education and training, repair and maintenance and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.