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Awarded · ResultStage · award

NHS England

DEFRA Food Procurement Sustainability with the NHS

ValueValue not published
Awarded
Published20 Feb 2026
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
Soil Association

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
england.commercialqueries@nhs.net

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The brief

We require the Soil Association to link directly with hospital sites that are striving to improve their food services, exchanging information on Higher Environmental Standards of food in the NHS.

The Soil Association resource contracted as part of the project will draw up the spread of sites currently covered by their assurance scheme and identify the gaps to obtain as representative a sample of sites as possible that cook food in the NHS, based on their meal service type and their site type.

As a purposeful gauge across healthcare sites: acute, community and mental health care sites will be used.

This will include a full range of service types to include cook-fresh, cook-freeze and plated.

Funding is from DEFRA The Soil Association brings nationally recognised expertise, credibility, and an established track record in supporting organisations to provide high-quality, sustainable meals.

Their Food for Life framework champions fresh,

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The Soil Association brings nationally recognised expertise

The Soil Association brings nationally recognised expertise, credibility, and an established track record in supporting organisations to provide high-quality, sustainable meals.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065975
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
015759-2026
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