Ambient Foods 2025

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Value

£72,263,000

Classifications

  • Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
  • Beef and veal products
  • Canned or tinned fish and other prepared or preserved fish
  • Coated, canned or tinned fish
  • Canned salmon
  • Canned tuna
  • Preserved and/or canned vegetables
  • Baked beans
  • Canned tomatoes
  • Canned vegetables
  • Canned peas
  • Canned shelled beans
  • Canned whole beans
  • Canned goods and field rations
  • Canned goods
  • Glucose and glucose products; fructose and fructose products
  • Glucose and glucose products
  • Glucose
  • Glucose syrup
  • Fructose and fructose products
  • Fructose
  • Fructose preparations
  • Fructose solutions
  • Fructose syrup
  • Special nutritional products
  • Dietetic products
  • Thickeners
  • Cereals
  • Oats
  • Grain mill products
  • Cereal grain products
  • Ground oats
  • Cereal products
  • Prepared breakfast cereals
  • Cornflakes
  • Muesli or equivalent
  • Puffed wheat
  • Rolled oats
  • Jams and marmalades; fruit jellies; fruit or nut purée and pastes
  • Marmalades
  • Orange marmalade
  • Lemon marmalade
  • Jams
  • Apricot jam
  • Blackberry jam
  • Blackcurrant jam
  • Cherry jam
  • Raspberry jam
  • Strawberry jam
  • Miscellaneous food products
  • Condiments and seasonings
  • Vinegar; sauces; mixed condiments; mustard flour and meal; prepared mustard
  • Sauces, mixed condiments and mixed seasonings
  • Sauces
  • Soups and broths
  • Meat soups
  • Fish soups
  • Mixed soups
  • Soups
  • Soup mixes
  • Broths
  • Stocks
  • Mixes for stocks
  • Vegetable soups
  • Gravy mixes
  • Grain mill products, starches and starch products
  • Starches and starch products
  • Starches
  • Custard powder
  • Vinegar and vinegar substitutes
  • Vinegar or equivalent
  • Tomato ketchup
  • Mustard
  • Mixed condiments
  • Mayonnaise
  • Herbs and spices
  • Pepper
  • Spices
  • Herbs
  • Salt
  • Sugar
  • White sugar
  • Sugar syrups
  • Dairy products
  • Milk
  • Pasteurised milk
  • Sterilised milk
  • UHT milk
  • Skimmed milk
  • Semi-skimmed milk
  • Full-cream milk
  • Condensed milk
  • Milk powder
  • Cream
  • Single cream
  • Double cream
  • Clotted cream
  • Whipping cream
  • Processed nuts
  • Animal or vegetable oils
  • Vegetable oils
  • Olive oil
  • Sesame oil
  • Groundnut oil
  • Coconut oil
  • Cooking oil
  • Frying oil
  • Refined oils
  • Rice
  • Instant mashed potatoes
  • Fruit jellies
  • Nut pastes
  • Peanut butter
  • Fruit purées
  • Husked rice
  • Cereal or vegetable flour and related products
  • Wheat flour
  • Wholemeal flour
  • Breadmaking flour
  • Plain flour
  • Pastry flour
  • Self-raising flour
  • Cereal flour
  • Corn flour
  • Rice flour
  • Vegetable flour and meal
  • Mixes for the preparation of baker's wares
  • Cake mixes
  • Baking mixes
  • Processed rice
  • Long-grain rice
  • Milled rice
  • Tapioca
  • Semolina
  • Honey
  • Desserts
  • Farinaceous products
  • Uncooked pasta
  • Prepared pasta and couscous
  • Prepared pasta
  • Stuffed pasta
  • Lasagne
  • Couscous
  • Canned pasta
  • Dessert mixes

Tags

  • tender

Submission Deadline

5 days from now

Published

4 weeks ago

Description

NHS Supply Chain: Food seeks to establish a Non-exclusive Framework Agreement for the supply of Ambient Foods to Trusts within the NHS (the “Customer(s)”) via the Stocked Route covering products from the following categories: 
Canned Goods, Oral Nutritional Supplements, Thickeners & Glucose Products, Cereals & Porridge, Jams & Reduced Sugar Jams, Gravy, Bouillon & Cooking Sauces, Single Serve Instant Soups & Bulk Soups, Custard, Condiments, Sugar, Sugar Portions and Sweeteners, Milk Powder & Portions, Non-Dairy Milk Alternatives, Edible Oils, Grocery Lines. 
The awarded suppliers will be responsible for the supply who will deliver and manage Ambient Foods into the NHS and its Trusts for their catering needs. 
The Framework Agreement will have an initial term of 24 months with an option to extend incrementally for up to a further 24 months. 
The contract will be for a maximum term of 48 months.
It is anticipated that in the first 24 months the value of the Framework Agreement will be in the region of £36,131,500. This is based on the circa 250 Trusts using the current NHS Supply Chain: Food Ambient framework. 
For the full 48 month term (if extended) the anticipated value of the Framework Agreement will be in the region of £72,263,000. 
These values are approximate only and are based on the most recent historical usage information, with a forecasted level of growth. The values provided are for guidance only and are not a guarantee of business.

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