Official UK procurement notice
Specialist Transportation Services Required for NHS Blood and Transplant Donors
Authority: NHS Blood and Transplant (Central government)
Sectors: Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: North West (UKD)
Published estimate£30,000≈ £10k / year · £36,000 inc. VAT
Tender notice expected 30 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsup to 4 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFuneral Director Transportation Services within the North West of England for NHS Blood and Transplant
CPV: Funeral and related services · Funeral services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
98370000 Funeral and related services98371000 Funeral services
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 6 Oct 2026, 16:24 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 16:24 BST
- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078201
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today6 Oct 2026, 16:24 BST
- Market engagementin 8 days14 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
We are looking for a specialist registered funeral provider to provide transportation services of deceased donors bodies from a hospital or location within the North West region, into our Liverpool based donor facility. This will also involve return transportation service, typically within a 24-48 more…
hour period. We would need assurance that arrangements can be made at a last minute’s notice and include out-of-hour services as donors are often required without prior notice. We currently require x2 donor collections/ returns per month within the North West region. (although frequency can vary) We would be contracting under NHSBT standard purchase order terms and conditions, link below: NHS England: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-terms-and-conditions-for-the-procurement-of-non-clinical-goods-and-services/#heading-5 If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please get in touch for a detailed specification of our requirement. Please respond by no later than 14th October 2026. Many thanks NHSBT - Tender notice expectedin 55 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 55 days1 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 16:24 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender