Single Use Podiatry Instruments
- Buyer
- The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS)
- Value
- £2,000,000
- Closes
- 5 November 2026
- Where
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
The NHS in Scotland is buying single-use podiatry instruments (sterile, disposable tools used by foot doctors). This is a major national supply contract covering all NHS Scotland health boards and integrated joint boards across the entire country.
What the buyer wants
• Supply sterile, single-use podiatry instruments to NHS Scotland health boards and partner organisations • Deliver products that meet medical device standards and NHS procurement requirements • Provide reliable logistics and supply chain management across Scotland
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
Most small businesses will be unable to compete. You must be an established medical device manufacturer or authorised distributor with CE-marked products, significant production capacity to supply all NHS Scotland health boards, and existing compliance with strict medical device regulations; new businesses or those without medical device certification will be rejected immediately.
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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