Nutritional Products Framework
- Buyer
- Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT)
- Value
- £9,261,120
- Closes
- 28 October 2026
- Where
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust is buying nutritional products and related services for patients. This includes oral supplements, tube feeds, pumps, administration equipment, consumables, and homecare delivery services across five separate product/service categories.
What the buyer wants
• Supply oral nutritional supplements (drinks, powders, etc.) for patients who cannot eat normally • Supply tube feeds and feeding solutions for patients with swallowing or digestive difficulties • Supply and possibly service pumps, administration sets and related delivery equipment • Supply consumables such as syringes, bags, and other single-use medical items • Deliver and manage homecare services to patients in their homes, including setup and support
Lots
- Oral Nutritional Supplements
- Tube Feeds
- Pumps, Administration Sets and Associated Services
- Consumables
- Homecare Services
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a framework contract worth £9.3 million supplying specialist medical nutrition and homecare services: you will almost certainly need to be an established pharmaceutical/medical device distributor or homecare provider, hold relevant licences and accreditations, and have the infrastructure to manage temperature-controlled supply chains and trained clinical staff. Most small traders will lack these.
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.
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