Clinical Waste Services for Cheshire and Merseyside Cluster

HealthTrust Europe (HTE) is seeking to establish a contract for the provision of Clinical Waste Services including the collection, transportation and disposal of clinical waste, including but not limited to: healthcare waste, infectious waste, pathological waste, pharmaceutical waste, offensive/hygiene waste, hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare waste for NHS Trusts within the Cheshire and Merseyside region, namely:

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust East Cheshire NHS Trust Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ("the Cluster")

Clinical Waste will be described within the following categories: Hazardous Waste, Pharmaceutical Waste and Sharps Waste.

Clinical Waste is defined as: "...any waste which consists wholly or partly of human or animal tissue, blood or other body fluids, excretions, drugs or other pharmaceutical products, swabs or dressings, syringes, needles or other sharp instruments, being waste which unless rendered safe, may prove hazardous to any person coming into contact with it; and any other waste arising from medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or similar practice, investigation, treatment, care, teaching or research, or the collection of blood for transfusion, being waste which may cause infection to any person coming into contact with it." Clauses 4.7 and 4.8, Environment and Sustainability Health Technical Memorandum 07-01: Safe management of healthcare waste.

This notice is for prior information only, publication for a further call for competition will be made as required. To assist in the strategic direction of the procurement and overall solution, HealthTrust Europe (HTE) and the Cluster is seeking supplier engagement. Please send your expression of interest along with no more than 2 representatives names to attend the event to [email protected]. The deadline for expressions of interest for the supplier engagement will be 15th July 2021. The supplier engagement will take the form of one supplier and customer joint meeting via Teams , 10.30am-12.30pm on Monday 19th July. Engagement will be carried out in accordance with Regulation 40 & 41 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

Additional information: HTE is a central purchasing body, who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an agent of UHCW.