Vending Machine Services and Vending Machine Concepts & Innovation DPS (2025 - 2029)

Suppliers are invited to submit a tender for the supply, delivery, installation, service and maintenance of vending machines, vending products, consumables and associated products including a fully managed vending service and self fill machine options. Although this is a National agreement for Vending Services, Regional suppliers are welcome to bid for each Lot. The agreement is a dynamic purchasing agreement (DPS) which means new suppliers can be added to the agreement throughout the life of the system (at intervals stated in procurement documents) as long as they pass the first stage tender process. Once successfully on the DPS, over the life time of the system you may be invited to complete a second stage tender in order to bid for individual contracts.

The DPS lots are as follows:

Lot 1 - Fully Managed Service. This Lot is for a fully managed, turnkey vending machine service. Vending machines will be filled, cleaned, serviced and maintained. The contract will also consist of electronic payment methods and / or cash collections and management information provided to the member. Machines can be charged for on a rental basis or provided free of charge depending on scope of requirements. Lot 2 - Ambient Confectionery Snacks & Cold Beverages. This Lot is for the supply and service of vending machines filled with ambient Confectionery snacks; cold beverage bottles & cans. Machines can be rented, leased or purchased outright. Lot 3 - Food including Sandwiches Chilled. This Lot is for the supply and service of various foods such as sandwiches, pastries etc in vending machines. It can also include hot and cold food innovative concepts. Machines can be rented, leased or purchased outright. This Lot is for the supply and service of various foods such as sandwiches, pastries etc in vending machines. It can also include hot and cold food innovative concepts. Lot 4 - Beverages, hot drinks. This Lot is for the supply and service of hot beverages in vending machines. Lot 5 –Self-Fill Machines only. This service is for provision of self-fill vending machines only. Vending machines under this Lot can be bought, leased or rented. Members will fill these machines according to their own requirements when stocks are depleted. Lot 6 – Reverse Vending Machines. Reverse Vending Machines, (RVM's) are automated machines that utilise advanced technology to identify, sort, collect and process used beverage containers, and have the ability to provide rewards in return where required. Lot 7 - Vending Machine Concepts & Innovation. This Lot is for the provision of innovative vending machine concepts & services which do not typically fit Lots 1 to 5. This can include as a guide: Pizza vending machines which bake at point of purchase; Mobile vending vans / concepts - On-site vending machines purpose-sited vending machines for events, festival and functions; Express Vending Machines - Self-service coffee machines which are ideally placed where there is a till point such as in retail premises or forecourts; Vending Retail Convenience Store – A vending concept which allows a wide range of goods to be sold in a huge variety of locations, 24 hours a day, every single day, through a hybrid typically (unmanned) vending machine/convenience shop.

As the retender for this Agreement is expected to go live at the beginning of 2029 and to ensure a smooth transition from the current agreement to the new one, this DPS will not accept new submissions after the final round is closed

Via tendering portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/tuco/aspx/Home