23_27 Cleaning Chemicals and Hand Soaps

Buyer
Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO
Value
£7,000,000
Closes
30 October 2026
Where
Leicester, the East Midlands
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Leicestershire County Council (via ESPO, a local authority buying cooperative) is looking for suppliers to stock a catalogue of cleaning chemicals, hand soaps, and soap dispensers for resale to schools, offices, and other public sector customers. This is a framework agreement divided into 4 lots, covering both major branded products and own-brand/non-leading-brand items.

What the buyer wants

• Supply cleaning chemicals and hand soaps (branded, unbranded, or private label) that meet 'professional standard' for commercial, industrial and educational use • Deliver products to ESPO warehouse in Leicester on an ongoing basis • Stock products in ESPO's online catalogue for resale to public sector customers

Lots

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

You will likely be excluded if you are a very small start-up without established market presence or existing distribution networks, and if you cannot guarantee consistent supply volumes to a centralised warehouse serving multiple local authorities.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

How framework contracts work

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