Legionella Tenders and Contracts

A legionella tender covers water hygiene compliance work: legionella risk assessment, water temperature monitoring, tank inspection and disinfection, TMV servicing, sampling and the remedial works carried out to meet HSE ACOP L8 and related water hygiene guidance. Most are let as term contracts for planned monitoring with reactive remedials priced separately, and larger estates often split risk assessment from monitoring so that two suppliers hold them.

NHS trusts, councils and housing associations are the most frequent buyers, since all three run large property estates with a statutory duty to control legionella risk. A single authority often splits the work geographically across several parallel contracts rather than running one nationwide tender.

Often, yes. Several councils run a dynamic market or multi-lot framework covering risk assessment, temperature monitoring and remedial works together, letting them call off individual sites or geographic areas without a fresh tender each time.

There is no single code. Buyers tag legionella and water hygiene work across several families: technical inspection and testing services, health and safety services, environmental monitoring and water pollution services, consulting services for water supply, repair and maintenance of building installations, and water treatment work. Plenty of it sits under a general plumbing or facilities maintenance code, and some notices carry no code at all. Set alerts on the wording buyers use rather than on a code list.