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Collection, Transport & Delivery of deceased persons to public mortuaries in the London East coroners jurisdiction

Buyer: London Borough of Waltham Forest →

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BuyerLondon Borough of Waltham Forest
StatusClosed
Deadline17 Aug 2026
Value£1,250,000
Published17 Jul 2026

What is being bought

The London Borough of Waltham Forest requires to procure the provision of a discreet and dignified service for the collection of bodies within the London Boroughs of the jurisdiction of the East London Coroner from the place of death to the Mortuaries assigned for each Borough, and from time to time to and from other places of examination.

Delivery location

UKI52, GB · UKI53, GB · UKI41, GB

Categories

Post-mortem and mortuary equipment and supplies 33900000Health and social work services 85000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£1,250,000
Contract periodFrom 27 Oct 2026 to 26 Oct 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price Criteria — Bidders are to submit both standard hours and non-standard hourly rate for either a single Borough location, or combination of tenders to more than one borough (50%)
Quality Criteria — Heading Weighting (%) Service Response - 10% Service Quality/Training - 15% Capacity - 5% Vehicles - 5% Case Study - 5% (40%)
Social Value — Social Value Portal to be used to submit and evaluate responses (10%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Post-mortem and mortuary equipment and supplies, Health and social work servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 33. The category anchor is Post-mortem and mortuary equipment and supplies (33900000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 332,1542 median · 92 average (788 of 2,154 with a bid count)6 average (915 of 2,154 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI521Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)14139 median · 202.7 average (3 of 141 with a bid count)8.7 average (3 of 141 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsas per the Specification document within the tender pack

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06cde3
Latest release ID067824-2026
Latest release timestampFri Jul 17 2026 12:48:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/067824-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-08-17T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-08-06T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-09-14T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailswww.londontenders.org
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,250,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release5

Notice history

DateEventReference
17 Jul 2026tender067824-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
17 Jul 2026 · 067824-2026 · tender
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