Pre-Market Engagement for Healthcare Waste

This is a prior information notice to seek engagement with the market place to understand the market structure and ascertain how suppliers can provide a high quality, cost effective Healthcare Waste service to public bodies within Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland and to establish how market ready service suppliers currently are.
Healthcare Waste (Clinical Waste) is defined as “waste from a healthcare activity (from medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or similar practice, investigation, treatment, care, teaching or research) that— (a) Contains viable micro-organisms or their toxins which are known or reliably believed to cause disease in humans or other living organisms; (b) contains or is contaminated with drugs or medicine that contains a biologically active pharmaceutical agent; or (c) is a sharp, swab or dressing, or a body fluid or other biological material (including human and animal tissue) containing or contaminated with a dangerous substance within the meaning of Council Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances, and waste of a similar nature from a non-healthcare activity” as stated within The Controlled Waste and Duty of Care Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013. The Clients also wish to understand the feasibility of separating the collection and transportation of the waste from the treatment and disposal/recycling/recovery service elements.
Potential tenderers for any Section of the Healthcare Waste service will need to register their business on the website www.eTendersNI.gov.uk. Go to the 'Suppliers new to eTendersNI' section and follow the registration process. Potential tenderers will be required to register against the relevant CPV codes applicable to them to ensure they receive email alerts regarding specific areas of interest. If already registered potential tenderers should review their contact details to ensure the information is up to date. Assistance is available from eTendersNI Helpdesk, telephone number: 08002404545. Please see II.2.4 for further details