Laundry Collection Tenders and Contracts

Laundry collection tenders cover collection, washing and dry cleaning of bed linen, towels and staff uniforms. Some contracts also include specialist PPE decontamination laundry, laundry chemicals and the equipment used to process it, such as washing machines and ironing presses.

Stotles brings together laundry tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. NHS linen and laundry services are often called off from national frameworks, so many opportunities reach only suppliers already on them.

Laundry tenders are scored on price per item or per kilo, turnaround and collection schedules, quality and infection control, and stock management. Hospitals and care settings score decontamination standards closely.

Healthcare laundry must meet NHS decontamination guidance for linen, and laundry sites need the environmental permits for their operations. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Buyers publish open tenders for new laundry contracts and also award through frameworks, so a single agreement can cover collection for several sites or organisations.

Some contracts add linen supply, workwear provision or specialist decontamination laundry to the collection service itself.

NHS trusts, universities, defence organisations, councils, prisons and central government bodies are regular buyers. Some contracts run through consortium frameworks that let multiple public sector members call off the same laundry service.

Read estates and facilities strategies, linen and uniform contract expiry dates, hospital laundry investment plans and consortium framework renewal notices, which show when a service is due to be retendered. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Laundry notices carry 39518000 (Hospital linen), 39291000 (Laundry supplies) and 42716000 (Laundry washing, dry-cleaning and drying machines). Rental and installation of washing machines also carry 39713200 (Clothes-washing and drying machines) and 51543400 (Installation services of laundry washing, dry-cleaning and drying machines).