Oxygen Tenders and Contracts

An oxygen tender covers the supply of medical oxygen, including cylinders, liquid oxygen and piped hospital systems, and oxygen therapy devices and services. Buyers let it as a standalone gas supply contract or as part of a wider medical gases framework.

Stotles brings together oxygen 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 oxygen is mostly called off national and regional medical gases frameworks, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy is commissioned by NHS England under the Provider Selection Regime.

Oxygen tenders are scored on supply resilience, delivery and cylinder management, safety, technical support and price. Supply contracts run for several years, so reliability decides renewals.

Medical oxygen must be supplied under a marketing authorisation with a Good Distribution Practice licence, and piped medical gas systems must follow HTM 02-01. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar supply contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

National and regional medical gases frameworks are a common route: hospitals and other public bodies call off supply from them rather than tendering fresh each time. Smaller buyers, such as individual fire and rescue services, sometimes tender or direct-award standalone cylinder supply contracts instead.

NHS trusts and health boards are regular buyers of medical oxygen, oxygen therapy devices and home oxygen services. Fire and rescue services and ambulance trusts also buy oxygen cylinders for first aid and resuscitation use.

Read medical gases contract expiry dates, hospital oxygen system upgrade plans, home oxygen service reviews and framework renewal dates, which show oxygen 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.

Oxygen notices carry 24111500 (Medical gases), and hyperbaric oxygen therapy services carry 85100000 (Health services).