Notice Information
Notice Title
Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing
Notice Description
NHSBT is looking to award a Managed Service Contract for the supply of commercially available automated blood group testing equipment for use as a secondary testing technology for ABO and Rh D typing, antibody screening and identification, extended red cell phenotyping and HbAS (heterozygous sickle cell trait) screening for donor blood, tissues and stem cell (haemopoietic progenitor cells and therapeutic cells) samples.
Lot Information
Lot 1
NHSBT is looking to award a Managed Service Contract for the supply of commercially available automated blood group testing equipment for use as a secondary testing technology for ABO and Rh D typing, antibody screening and identification, extended red cell phenotyping and HbAS (heterozygous sickle cell trait) screening for donor blood, tissues and stem cell (haemopoietic progenitor cells and therapeutic cells) samples.
Renewal: 5 x 12 month extensions
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-040cd2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043037-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85111810 - Blood analysis services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £8,655,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £8,655,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 25 Jul 20257 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 10 Jun 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 14 Feb 2024Expired
- Award Date
- 25 Jul 20257 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Unsuccessful
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Unsuccessful
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT
- Contact Name
- Jo Murphy
- Contact Email
- jo.murphy@nhsbt.nhs.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1179212718
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRISTOL
- Postcode
- BS34 7QH
- Post Town
- Bristol
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK5 West of England
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Electoral Ward
- Filton
- Westminster Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke
Further Information
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