Stale Pre-tender

Mailing and Fulfilment

Details

Topic
Mailing services
Published
11 November 2025
Submission
17 November 2025

Tender description

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is inviting interested suppliers to take part in an early market engagement exercise for the provision of Direct Marketing, Print, and Fulfilment Services. This exercise aims to gather information on market capability, innovation, and indicative pricing to help shape a future procurement. NHSBT delivers large-scale donor communications to support recruitment and retention across blood, platelet, plasma, stem cell, and organ donation programmes. The scope may include: Print management, fulfilment, and mailing of donor communications Secure handling of personal data and GDPR compliance Postal management and performance reporting Support for digital and hybrid communication channels Sustainability, social value, and continuous improvement initiatives Suppliers are invited to complete a short capability questionnaire covering experience, service capacity, data handling, innovation, quality standards, and indicative cost models. This engagement is conducted under the Procurement Act 2023 as a preliminary market engagement activity. It is for information only and does not form part of a procurement process. Participation will not confer any advantage in any future competition.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published11 November 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Blood and Transplant runs the UK's blood and organ donation services, and buys as a national healthcare organisation with its own procurement team. Every tender is advertised through Atamis, the e-tendering platform used across the NHS. Much of its buying flows through framework agreements with the Crown Commercial Service, NHS Supply Chain and NHS Shared Business Services. Four internal teams commission separately, covering Operations, Information Technology, Strategic Goods and Estates and Services. Strategic Goods sources blood bags and testing equipment through collaborative agreements with Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

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 Blood and Transplant's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 79571000 · Mailing services

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