Medical Equipment Maintenance Tenders and Contracts

A medical equipment maintenance contract covers servicing, repair and calibration of medical equipment, including X-ray machines, patient hoists and lifting equipment, ophthalmic lasers and diagnostic scanners. Framework arrangements covering multiple equipment types and single-device service contracts both appear.

Stotles brings together medical equipment maintenance 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. Medical equipment maintenance is often direct-awarded through the NHS Supply Chain medical equipment maintenance framework, or tendered as an open competition covering a whole estate of devices.

Medical equipment maintenance must follow manufacturers' instructions and MHRA guidance on managing medical devices, and engineers servicing X-ray equipment must follow the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017. 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.

Trusts and health boards tender maintenance as open competitions covering a whole estate of devices, or award a contract directly to a manufacturer through the NHS Supply Chain medical equipment maintenance framework, which is divided into lots by equipment type. Contracts typically run for several years and cover planned servicing, calibration and reactive repair.

NHS trusts and hospitals are regular buyers, buying maintenance and repair contracts for clinical equipment directly or through NHS Supply Chain. Universities also procure servicing for specialist research and diagnostic equipment.

Read medical equipment replacement plans, asset registers, maintenance contract expiry dates and preliminary market engagement notices, which show medical equipment maintenance work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the trusts behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Medical equipment maintenance notices carry 50420000 (Repair and maintenance services of medical and surgical equipment), 50421000 (Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment) and 50400000 (Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment).