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SWBT & DGFT - Provision of Funeral, Storage & Transportation Services

Buyer: Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust →

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BuyerSandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
StatusClosed
Deadline3 Jun 2026
Value£80,000
Published30 Apr 2026

What is being bought

The scope of this Procurement is Funeral Services for deceased patients who do not have a next of kin to organise their funeral. The contract also includes the cost of funerals following miscarriage and stillbirth and the transporting of deceased between hospital sites. The BCA (Black Country Alliance) Procurement department will be undertaking this exercise on behalf of both The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. The anticipated contractual period is an initial 3 year duration with the option to extend for a further 2 periods of up to 12 months each.

Categories

Funeral and related services 98370000Funeral services 98371000

Lot details

Lot 1 - Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust

The BCA (Black Country Alliance) Procurement department will be undertaking this exercise on behalf of both The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. This Lot is specifically for Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. Suppliers shall submit an individual response to each lot being tendered for; individual documents applicable to each lot have been supplied in separate folders uploaded to the portal. The agreement is for a funeral service provision, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year.

Statusactive
Value£40,000
Contract periodFrom 13 Jul 2026 to 12 Jul 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Lot 2 - The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

The BCA (Black Country Alliance) Procurement department will be undertaking this exercise on behalf of both The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. This Lot is specifically for The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. Suppliers shall submit an individual response to each lot being tendered for; individual documents applicable to each lot have been supplied in separate folders uploaded to the portal. The agreement is for a funeral service provision, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year.

Statusactive
Value£40,000
Contract periodFrom 13 Jul 2026 to 12 Jul 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Funeral and related services, Funeral servicesNot published
2Funeral and related services, Funeral servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 98. The category anchor is Funeral and related services (98370000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 984,2303 median · 49.9 average (1,583 of 4,230 with a bid count)3.4 average (1,771 of 4,230 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)197Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-068fd2
Latest release ID040205-2026
Latest release timestampThu Apr 30 2026 18:07:59 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040205-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-06-03T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-05-15T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsThe Contracting Authority is utilising an electronic Tendering system (“E-Tendering Portal”) to manage this procurement and communicate with Tenderers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to Tenderers and all communications with the Contracting Authority, including the submission of Tender responses will be conducted solely via the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome User Guide: https://services.atamis.co.uk/docs/Supplier_User_Guide.pdf
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£80,000
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source2
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
30 Apr 2026tender040205-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
30 Apr 2026 · 040205-2026 · tender
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