Care Laundry & Linen Pool
Residential & Nursing Care
Contract laundry and linen for residential care homes, nursing homes, and specialist care settings. Care homes are among the highest-volume laundry users in any sector — yet almost universally buy on a single-supplier basis that has never been competitively reviewed.
📍 Yorkshire · 4 providers📍 North West · 4 providers📍 Midlands · 3 providers📍 South East · 3 providers📍 South West · 2 providers📍 East of England · 2 providers
The laundry contract that has never been challenged
A 60-bed care home processes resident bedding, towels, and clothing alongside staff uniforms every day of the year. Annual volumes for a setting of this size typically exceed 150,000 kg — a consistent, predictable, high-volume requirement. A pool of 25 care homes aggregating their laundry spend represents a contract of £600,000–900,000 annually — one that commercial laundry companies price very differently from an individual care home account.
Compliance is built into every IQ laundry tender: Care sector laundry has specific compliance requirements — infection control standards, thermal disinfection specifications, WRAS-compliant equipment. IQ specifies these as prerequisites, not afterthoughts. You get a better price and a compliant service.
What this pool covers
All care laundry and linen categories
Resident clothing processing, bed linen and towels, incontinence products and associated linen, staff uniforms and workwear, kitchen and dining linen. Compliance requirements — thermal disinfection temperatures, COSHH data sheets, infection control protocols — are specified as mandatory and verified at evaluation.
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A care procurement community — not a one-off event
The Care Laundry & Linen pool runs every year. Members stay between cycles.
72-hour early access when the next cycle opens
Monthly care sector bulletin — regulatory updates, market intelligence
Member since badge on your Bundle IQ profile
Results archive — every previous pool saving documented
IQ alerts you when the next cycle opens
Supplier pool re-qualified every cycle — compliance assured
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Monthly care sector bulletin included. CQC updates, regulatory changes, energy market direction, infection control guidance. Specific intelligence for care providers.
Previous pool results
First cycle opening. Results published here once awarded — permanent record.
How it works
Four steps. IQ does the work.
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Register your interest
Tell us your provider type, approximate annual spend, and county or region. Ten minutes. No commitment.
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IQ builds the pool
We match your requirement with other providers of similar scale and need. Combined spend creates buying power no individual home can achieve.
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IQ runs the competitive process
Qualified suppliers compete. IQ evaluates on price, compliance, regulatory credentials, and reliability — quality and compliance first.
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You see the price and decide
Switch or stay — always your call. No pressure, no obligation. But now you know what the market offers.