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OpenStage · planning

NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy

Environment & WasteCPV 90524100
Value£5.0m
Deadline
Published25 Jul 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
helena.fuller1@nhs.net

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£5.0mtotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.4m

This is a large award for Environment & Waste — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is placed to inform the market of the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) for NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG), Somerset and Devon (the Authorities 's), intention to recommission Healthcare Waste Collection in Primary Care and Community Pharmacy.

The Authorities would like to understand the level of provider interest in delivering these services and requests feedback from experienced organisations using a Market Engagement Questionnaire.

The service will provide a Primary Care and pharmacy medical waste collection and disposal/recycling for the 3 ICBs in the South West; •NHS Devon ICB •NHS Somerset ICB •NHS Bristol, North Somerset & South Gloucestershire ICB These 3 ICBs are looking to re-procure in the near future (anticipated to be tendered in Nov 2025), all of their current contracts for Primary Care Clinical Waste Collection and disposal/recycling predominantly and Community Pharmacy.

The intended service for tender include: 1.

Collection & transport of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste.

2.

Storage of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste 3.

Treatment of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste 4.

Incineration of clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste 5.

Provision of reusable and single use containers for clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste 6.

Decontamination of reusable containers for clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste 7.

Promoting waste segregation and compliance 8.Clinical waste and pharmaceutical waste tracking and data The purpose of this notice is to provide a summary of the services to be procured, share the service specification and to obtain feedback that will help support a safe, sustainable, environmentally effective and cost-efficient quality service.

TUPE may apply to this process.

Please register your interest to access the supporting documentation and provide feedback by answering the Market Engagement Questionnaire against this project by 17:00 on 15/08/25 This exercise is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Authorises .

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is placed

This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is placed to inform the market of the Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) for NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG),.

02

The service will provide a Primary Care

The service will provide a Primary Care and pharmacy medical waste collection and disposal/recycling for the 3 ICBs in the South West;.

03

Provide a summary of the services

provide a summary of the services to be procured, share the service specification and to.

04

Obtain feedback that will help support

obtain feedback that will help support a safe, sustainable, environmentally effective and cost-efficient quality service.

05

This exercise is being managed by NHS

This exercise is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Authorises .

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
043139-2025
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