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# Keeping Dialysis Patients Warm & Well

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/keeping-dialysis-patients-warm-well-ocds-h6vhtk-069489). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Wales & West Utilities Limited: "Keeping Dialysis Patients Warm & Well". Published status: complete. Contract Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Wales & West Utilities Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/wales-west-utilities-limited-GB-COH-05046791)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Direct award
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL, UKM
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £1,100,000 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/keeping-dialysis-patients-warm-well-ocds-h6vhtk-069489#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-069489`

## 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/keeping-dialysis-patients-warm-well-ocds-h6vhtk-069489#tl-md)

## Description
WWU and the named gas networks, are direct awarding a contract for the provision of a nationwide service for a lifeline to dialysis patients. This is aligned to our Customer Vulnerability Strategy which focusses on supporting priority customer groups.
This will be funded through our Vulnerability and Carbon Monoxide Allowance (VCMA), which allows the gas networks to provide additional support to vulnerable customers and to promote carbon monoxide awareness. This contract will deliver specialist, non clinical support embedded within NHS renal units across the UK, alongside a dedicated, national telephone support line. Working with the GDNs, KCUK will directly address the significant medical, financial and social pressures faced by people living with chronic kidney disease by delivering a coordinated set of high impact support activities designed to improve safety, stability and quality of life for vulnerable households across the GDN regions. Building on Kidney Care UK's established national infrastructure and existing partnership with the GDNs, the service will provide immediate and long-term assistance through an integrated model of financial, emotional, practical and energy safeguarding support.
Services include:
• Direct financial support through KCUK hardship grants programme
• Income maximisation, including specialist advice on welfare entitlement and PIP
• Mitigating cost of living challenges with advice and support to access utility tariffs, energy consumption, and transport costs
• Tailored money and energy support
• KCUK holiday grants
• Free renal counselling
• Free, high quality patient information
• Peer support through our Young Adult Kidney Group (16-30)
• PSR referrals
• Carbon monoxide awareness
• CKD training for GDN teams and visits to renal units

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 80330000
- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL, UKM
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Keeping Dialysis Patients Warm & Well (active)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION(THE)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:01228114`
  - Value: £1,100,000 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 27/05/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F058356-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-06-22T09:17:28.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-21T12:33:19.316Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-069489