Tender: Supply of Single-Use Healthcare PPE (Masks, Gowns, Visors, PAPRs) for NHS 2027

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NHS is seeking a supplier for the supply of single-use healthcare personal protective equipment (PPE) and associated consumables for NHS clinical settings, including facemasks (Type IIR surgical masks, FFP3 respirators), gowns (category III isolation gowns, dignity gowns), full-face visors, powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) and accessories, fit testing equipment (qualitative and quantitative kits) and Cape Hood Type PB 6B. Solutions must provide effective infection prevention and control and meet relevant Medical Device and/or PPE legislative standards, ensure resilience and scalability with surge capacity and dynamic stock rotation for public health emergencies, support a nationally coordinated stocked supply strategy to maintain consistent availability of strategic PPE items, simplify and rationalise product ranges with robust clinical evidence, embed sustainability and ethical sourcing including carbon reduction and labour standard compliance, address high-risk modern slavery concerns with robust due diligence and independent third-party audits, offer value for money with periodic reopening of competition across Lots for aggregated national purchasing, ensure transparent product classification and intended use, and demonstrate innovation that supports value-based procurement across whole life cost, social value, efficiency and outcomes. Suppliers should demonstrate how their proposals achieve resilience, sustainability and ethical compliance.