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title: "Market Engagement for Third-Party Contingency Support for Decontamination Services in Scotland"
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# Market Engagement for Third-Party Contingency Support for Decontamination Services in Scotland

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/market-engagement-for-third-party-contingency-support-for-decontamination-services-in-scot-ocds-h6vhtk-05d6e2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS): "Market Engagement for Third-Party Contingency Support for Decontamination Services in Scotland". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS)](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-common-services-agency-more-commonly-known-as-nhs-nation-GB-FTS-115937)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Decontamination equipment
- **Delivery Location:** UKM
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05d6e2`

## 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/market-engagement-for-third-party-contingency-support-for-decontamination-services-in-scot-ocds-h6vhtk-05d6e2#tl-md)

## Description
The National Decontamination Collaborative Programme is seeking market feedback and information to inform potential future procurement of reserved third-party contingency support for decontamination services across Scotland’s 14 Central Decontamination Units (CDUs) reprocessing approximately 40 million instruments every year to service all Scotland’s hospitals.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** Background:
The main objectives of NHSScotland’s decontamination services are:
-Clean, disinfect and sterilise Reusable Medical Devices (RMDs) to strict standards, set in national policy and guidance;
-deliver the correct set of products at the corre...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F069633-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-10-30T10:22:35.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T22:41:45.190Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05d6e2