Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 20 May 2025, 15:43 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Decontamination Services

Official notice

Authority: KCH Interventional Facilities Management LLP (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£50,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 3 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 30 Jun 2036 · starts 1 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

KCH Interventional Facilities Management LLP (KFM) are intending to issue contracts for the provision of surgical and dental instrument decontamination across King's College Hospital and the Princess University College Hospital.

The service will encompass a fully managed decontamination service, off site from both hospitals and include logistics of the instruments to between the hospital sites and the decontamination site.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 10 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jul 2026 – 30 Jun 2036 (10 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
20 May 2025, 15:43 BST
Last source update
8 Oct 2025, 14:32 BST
Authority reference
C393406
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-063346
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051935 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

20 May 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    20 May 2025, 15:43 BST
  2. Latest notice published384 days ago
    8 Oct 2025, 14:32 BST
  3. Market engagement379 days ago
    13 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST

    KFM would like to engage with suppliers before going to competition for the services to understand:

    1. The capacity of the market to contract this work.
    2. Innovation within the industry.
    3. Optimal ways to deliver social value.
    4. Expected contract length for this industry

    The market engagement will be used to help inform the specification and route to market to award this contract.

    Suppliers are encouraged to register and engage via the Health Family Single eCommercial System

    health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

  4. Tender notice expected358 days ago
    3 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts119 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    20 May 2025, 15:43 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Oct 2025, 14:32 BST
    UK2
  3. Published value updated to £50,000,000
    8 Oct 2025, 14:32 BST
    was £24,000,000

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

KCH Interventional Facilities Management LLP

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDWQ-2826-VTWP Unit 1, KCH Business Park, 129 Coldharbour Lane, London, London, SE5 9NYContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure