Surgical Tenders and Contracts

Surgical procurement covers theatre consumables such as clips, energy and stapling devices, trocars, laparoscopic instruments, gloves and vascular grafts. Capital equipment also comes up, such as surgical robots, diathermy machines, operating tables and theatre lighting. Instrument servicing, repair and decontamination are bought as well.

Stotles brings together surgical 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. Surgical consumables are mostly called off from NHS Supply Chain and NHS Shared Business Services frameworks, and capital equipment is often a direct award under an existing agreement.

Surgical products must be UKCA or CE marked under the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 and registered with the MHRA, and reusable instruments must suit the buyer's decontamination process. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

A large share of them. Multi-supplier framework agreements and call-offs against them are how theatre consumables reach a hospital. For a surgical supplier, getting onto the agreement matters more than watching for one-off tenders.

Trusts and health boards buy the capital kit, usually calling off a national agreement rather than tendering from scratch. Consumables are bought collectively: national supply bodies and regional consortia run the large multi-supplier frameworks that individual hospitals then draw on. Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland each run their own equivalents, so the same product reaches tender several times under different names.

Read theatre development plans, capital equipment programmes, national framework renewal dates and regional purchasing hub workplans, which show surgical 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.

Surgical notices carry 33169000 (Surgical instruments), 33162100 (Operating-theatre devices), 33161000 (Electrosurgical unit) and 33141420 (Surgical gloves). Plenty of surgical notices carry only a general medical equipment code, or no code at all.