Awarded contract

Fresh Bread

Details

Supplier(s)
Hovis Ltd
Value
£7,679,197.59
Duration
3 years
Topic
Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
Published
13 October 2025

Tender description

Business Services Organisation (BSO), Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS) sought through this tender opportunity to appoint a supplier for the supply and delivery of fresh bread to Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI). ## Contract award Title: Fresh Bread

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published13 October 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date13 October 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 October 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust delivers hospital and community care across Belfast, and buys as a Health and Social Care trust through a shared regional service. The Procurement and Logistics Service, part of the Business Services Organisation, buys on behalf of the Trust and every HSC body in Northern Ireland. PaLS holds Centre of Procurement Expertise status under Northern Ireland's procurement policy. Competitions are advertised through the eTendersNI portal, with quotations invited for smaller opportunities. Most contracts run for three years, with options to extend for two.

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 Belfast Health and Social Care Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and food and drink.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 15000000 · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
  • 15811000 · Bread products
  • 15811100 · Bread
  • 15811200 · Rolls
  • 15811500 · Prepared bread products
  • 15813000 · Morning goods

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