Vending Solutions
Details
- Buyer
- NHS Supply Chain
- Value
- £120,000,000
- Topic
- Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
- Published
- 3 June 2026
- Submission
- 22 October 2026in 4 weeks
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
NHS Supply Chain: Food is planning to establish a Framework Agreement for the supply of products including but not limited to: Cold Drinks, Snacks and Confectionery Vending Machines, Chilled & Hot Food Vending Machines, Hot Beverage Vending Machines, Coffee Shop Solutions, Ward Beverage Trolleys, Water Dispensers, Reverse Vending, Smart Technology & Shop Solutions, Maintenance and Servicing. The Framework Agreement is expected to be divided into lots. Final lot structure and scope will be detailed in the future tender notice. The current intention is to use a Framework Agreement. However, NHS Supply Chain: Food reserves the right to adopt a different procurement approach if deemed more suitable.
Timeline
- Completed: Pre-tender published3 June 2026Current notice
About the buyer
NHS Supply Chain buys as a central healthcare organisation, run by Supply Chain Coordination Limited on behalf of NHS England. Suppliers tender through the Jaggaer eProcurement portal, and opportunities above threshold are advertised on Find a Tender. Successful bids are listed on framework agreements managed by category teams. The NHS Core List aggregates trust demand into national contracts for standard commodities. Category teams coordinate key supply markets with NHS England and clinical networks. Procurement follows the Procurement Act 2023, in force since February 2025.
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 Supply Chain's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, food and drink and furniture and furnishings.
Relevant CPV codes
- 15000000 · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
- 15894500 · Vending-machine ingredients
- 31141000 · Water coolers
- 42200000 · Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts
- 42933000 · Vending machines
- 42933300 · Automatic goods-vending machines
- 51542200 · Installation services of beverage-processing machinery
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-supply-chain.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-supply-chain.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-supply-chain.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-supply-chain.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-supply-chain.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@nhs-supply-chain.gov |
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