Notice Information
Notice Title
Bespoke mail service for Bowel Screening Wales
Notice Description
Bespoke mail service for Bowel Screening Wales NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership on behalf of Public Health Wales wish to inform the market that they intend to award an 18-month contract to Royal Mail to deliver a bespoke tracked 48 mail service to provide Bowel Screening Wales participants across Wales with a facility to return test kits to a Screening Laboratory in Wales.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Bowel Screening Wales sends invitations and bowel test kits through the post to screening and symptomatic participants. The Royal Mail service is compatible with Public Health Wales Bowel Screening current IT system. Royal Mail provide a clinically safe method to return bowel kits with the understanding that they contain human material. The completed bowel test kits can be posted in a Royal Mail post box making it accessible for participants. Royal Mail provide a consistent method for all participants to make this an equitable process for returning bowel screening test kits. Additional information: For all communication regarding this notice, please contact Lewis Blackshaw at lewis.blackshaw2@wales.nhs.uk
Procurement Information
It is considered that this contract can be placed using the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice pursuant to
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-048462
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007806-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
64 - Postal and telecommunications services
-
- CPV Codes
30199240 - Mailing kit
64000000 - Postal and telecommunications services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £933,515 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 4 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 22 Jul 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS WALES SHARED SERVICES PARTNERSHIP
- Contact Name
- Lewis Blackshaw
- Contact Email
- lewis.blackshaw2@wales.nhs.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2921500512
Buyer Location
- Locality
- DENBIGHSHIRE
- Postcode
- LL17 0JL
- Post Town
- Llandudno
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL3 North Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL33 Conwy and Denbighshire
- Delivery Location
- TLL Wales
-
- Local Authority
- Denbighshire
- Electoral Ward
- Bodelwyddan
- Westminster Constituency
- Clwyd North
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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