Needs the Association’s confirmation. On 7 September 2026 the British Pest Control Association (BPCA) posted a “member opportunity”: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership is carrying out early market engagement on pest management services for Hywel Dda and Swansea Bay University Health Boards, and invites businesses of all sizes in South and West Wales to take part.
Main points
- Who: pest management companies of all sizes, from sole traders, family businesses and local SMEs to larger providers; no previous work with the NHS or the wider public sector is needed.
- NHS Wales wants to know which areas businesses cover; how far they are willing to travel to deliver services; whether smaller, more local opportunities might work better than larger contracts; what barriers discourage businesses from working with organisations such as the NHS; and how future contracts could better support local businesses and communities.
- Timeline according to BPCA: the Integrated Pest Management Service pre-market engagement questionnaire closed at 11:59 pm on Thursday 17 September 2026; NHS Wales expected to hold a virtual supplier engagement session in the week commencing 28 September 2026. BPCA stresses this is early market engagement, not a tender.
- Needs the Association’s confirmation. An association passing public-sector and hospital consultations on to its members is a model worth noting. VPMA could consider collecting members’ views when hospitals or public bodies in Vietnam design insect-control service packages; this needs the Association’s confirmation.
VPMA’s note
BPCA news about a consultation in Wales (UK); the dates have passed. It does not mean VPMA took part. Needs the Association’s confirmation.
- Source
- BPCA – NHS Wales wants to hear from pest management businesses
- Published
- 7 September 2026
- Section
- Association news
- Questionnaire deadline
- 17 September 2026
- Area
- Hywel Dda and Swansea Bay (Wales)
Editorial note: Needs the Association’s confirmation. This is a short summary by VPMA, not a full copy. The original text belongs to the source cited. No picture could be taken from the BPCA page. The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) photograph comes from the pest pages already on the Association website (Wikimedia Commons, by G. Scott Segler, CC BY-SA 4.0).
Source: BPCA – NHS Wales wants to hear from pest management businesses (summarised in English by VPMA). Read the Vietnamese page.