Trolleys Tenders and Contracts

Trolley procurement covers clinical trolleys, including ward, resuscitation and cardiac arrest trolleys, drug, medicine and pharmacy trolleys for medicines storage, and workstations on wheels. It also covers catering trolleys, such as hot food trolleys that keep meals warm on the way to wards and prison wings. Maintenance of catering trolley fleets and their software is bought too.

Stotles brings together trolley 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. Clinical trolleys are often bought through regional framework agreements with ward and resuscitation lots, while hospital meal trolleys come with long maintenance support.

Clinical trolleys are medical devices or medical furniture that must suit infection control cleaning regimes, and electrical meal trolleys must meet electrical safety and food temperature requirements. 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.

A hot food trolley is catering equipment: it keeps meals warm on the route from a kitchen to a ward or wing, and it is usually specified through a catering equipment or food service contract. A ward or clinical trolley is medical furniture, used to store equipment, notes or medication rather than food, and it is specified through a medical furniture or clinical equipment framework instead.

Yes. Buyers use drug trolley, medicine trolley and pharmacy trolley interchangeably for the lockable trolleys used to store and dispense medication on a ward. Contracts for them usually sit within a wider medical furniture or clinical equipment framework rather than standing alone.

NHS trusts and health boards across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are frequent buyers, alongside prison services and Ireland's health service. Purchases are often made through NHS Supply Chain or a shared services framework rather than as standalone open tenders.

Read hospital catering reviews, ward refurbishment programmes, medical equipment replacement plans and framework renewal dates, which show trolley work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Trolley notices carry 34911100 (Trolleys), 33192000 (Medical furniture) and 39310000 (Catering equipment).