Closed tender

C394886 Courier Services

Details

Published
5 November 2025
Submission
3 December 2025

Tender description

The NHSBSA is seeking to procure a contract for the provision of Courier Services via CCS Framework RM6171 Courier and Specialist Movements, Lot 1 - Collection and Delivery. Only Suppliers listed under this Framework and Lot will be able to participate in this tender. This contract will provide courier services primarily for overnight, next day collections and deliveries to/from a range of the NHSBSA's UK sites and homeworking staff locations. It will also include secure, bulk, or same day deliveries under the scope of the contract.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published5 November 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date3 December 2025

About the buyer

NHS Business Services Authority operates as a healthcare buyer, delivering national support services across the NHS in England. Contract opportunities are advertised through the Health Family Single eCommercial System, its dedicated procurement portal. Larger tenders appear on Find a Tender, with smaller notices published on Contracts Finder. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service. Commercial teams grade contracts as Gold, Silver or Bronze according to value and risk. Suppliers register on the Central Digital Platform to complete pre-qualification checks.

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 Business Services Authority's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and business services.

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