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NHS Lanarkshire

Ward Curtains and Bed Screens Cleaning Service

Community ServicesCPV 98311000
Value£875,000
Deadline
Published10 Aug 2023
RegionNationwide

£875,000 — stated in the notice.

Who to contact
Sarah Cockram
tenders@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
+44 1698752649

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£875ktotal contract value
median £134k
this tender£0£4.1m

This is a large award for Other Community & Personal Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,835 valued Other Community & Personal Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

NHS Lanarkshire's Other Community & Personal Services cycle is past due — it ran about every 14 months across 4 notices, and the door is open now. It may re-tender at any time.

41% of NHS Lanarkshire’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

NHS Lanarkshire require a cleaning service for bed screens and ward curtains.

The service should include the uplift of screens and curtains, laundering, and return to the following locations: West of Scotland Laundry, Hairmyres Hospital, Wishaw General Hospital, and Monkland Hospital, on an agreed frequency.

The services provided must adhere to the highest quality standards, and in line with agreed HSE/Infection control guidelines.

The successful supplier must meet all legislative requirements, in particular Infection Control Guidelines HSG (95) 18 (Laundry treatments at high and low temperatures) eliminating the risk of cross infection within the locations supplied with screens/curtains.

The successful supplier must also have a Quality Management System in place (ideally ISO9001) and have an Environmental Management Policy (ideally ISO14001) Independent verification of compliance will be required relating to HSG (95) 18, Quality Assurance Attainment (e.g.

ISO Accreditation), and the Environmental Management Policy.

NHS Lanarkshire wish to invite suppliers who can provide these requirements, to register interest.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The service should include the uplift

The service should include the uplift of screens and curtains, laundering, and return to the following locations: West of Scotland Laundry, Hairmyres Hospital, Wishaw General Hospital, and Monkland Hospital, on an agreed frequency.

02

The services provided must adhere to

The services provided must adhere to the highest quality standards, and in line with agreed HSE/Infection control guidelines.

03

The successful supplier must meet all legislative

The successful supplier must meet all legislative requirements, in particular Infection Control Guidelines HSG (95) 18 (Laundry treatments at high and low temperatures) eliminating the risk of cross infection within the locations supplied with screens/curtains.

04

The successful supplier must also have

The successful supplier must also have a Quality Management System in place (ideally ISO9001) and have an Environmental Management Policy (ideally ISO14001).

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ISO 14001 (environmental management)says mustStandards you certify to
The successful supplier must also have a Quality Management System in place (ideally ISO9001) and have an Environmental Management Policy (ideally ISO14001)
ISO 9001 (quality management)says mustStandards you certify to
The successful supplier must also have a Quality Management System in place (ideally ISO9001) and have an Environmental Management Policy (ideally ISO14001)

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03ee9c
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
023376-2023
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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