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# Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/healthcare-waste-services-in-general-practice-and-community-pharmacy-ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Bristol North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board: "Healthcare Waste Services in General Practice and Community Pharmacy". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: £5,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHS Bristol North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-bristol-north-somerset-south-gloucestershire-integrated--nhs-quy)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £5,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Clinical-waste collection services, Clinical-waste disposal services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK1, UKK2, UKK4
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/healthcare-waste-services-in-general-practice-and-community-pharmacy-ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/healthcare-waste-services-in-general-practice-and-community-pharmacy-ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15#tl-md)

## Description
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.
This is the second round of market engagement for this requirement, following a previous market engagement (REF2025/S 000-010158) published 19th March 2025 . The specification and supporting documentation has been updated significantly since then and we would encourage all interested parties that have previously submitted market engagement responses to view our updated question set and respond accordingly. Equally we also welcome newly interested parties to engage with and respond to our question set.
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 Authorities .

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 90524100, 90524200
- **Delivery regions:** UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2026 to 31/03/2031
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F043231-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-07-25T14:26:20.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T03:51:43.123Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04ef15