Occupational Health Contracts and Tenders

Occupational health procurement covers services that keep an employer's own workforce fit for work, such as health surveillance, pre-employment medicals, fit for work assessments and employee health screening, rather than clinical care for the public. Buyers range from single-site colleges to national bodies covering thousands of staff.

Stotles brings together occupational health tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Much occupational health is called off from the national occupational health dynamic purchasing system, and NHS bodies publish on the Department of Health and Social Care's Atamis portal.

Occupational health tenders are scored on clinical quality and accreditation, the range of services, turnaround times for referrals and price. Many public bodies buy through national frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems, so joining them is usually the first step.

Occupational health clinicians must be registered with their professional regulator, such as the General Medical Council or the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and buyers often ask for SEQOHS accreditation. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Occupational health is bought wherever an employer needs to keep staff fit for physically or mentally demanding work: NHS trusts and hospitals, universities and colleges, local councils, housing associations and transport operators all buy it. Many run it as a stand-alone contract with a specialist occupational health provider; some bundle it with employee assistance and counselling under one framework.

Read workforce and wellbeing strategies, HR service reviews and expiry dates for existing occupational health contracts, which show occupational health work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Occupational health notices carry 85147000 (Company health services) and 71317200 (Health and safety services).