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title: "Multi-Apheresis and Extracorporeal Photopheresis Systems"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0560a1"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT"
published: "2025-07-16"
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# Multi-Apheresis and Extracorporeal Photopheresis Systems

Buyer: NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0560a1

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## Summary

The NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is planning a public procurement process for the acquisition of Multi-Apheresis and Extracorporeal Photopheresis Systems. This initiative falls under the medical equipment category, encompassing goods for the healthcare sector. Based in the UK region of South West (Bristol), NHSBT is looking to engage suppliers through early market engagement meetings scheduled for September 2025. Interested organisations are required to express their interest via email by 18th August 2025, though this participation is not a prerequisite for involvement in any future formal procurement. The procurement is still in the planning stage, with a notable potential contract period beginning in February 2027 and extending for ten years.

This tender represents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in medical equipment manufacturing, repair, and maintenance. Companies offering innovative and reliable solutions in therapeutic apheresis, particularly those capable of supplying and maintaining machines and consumables, will find this process aligned with their expertise. The engagement with NHSBT can open pathways for long-term collaboration, further establishing a foothold in the health sector. SMEs and large-scale medical suppliers with experience in servicing UK wide healthcare facilities are well-positioned to benefit from this procurement, fostering business growth through substantial contract values reaching up to £65 million.

## Notice

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority and is responsible for the provision of blood components and a range of associated laboratory and patient therapeutic services to hospitals. The NHSBT Therapeutic Apheresis Service (TAS) provide lifesaving and life-enhancing therapies to adults and children across a range of clinical specialties. Patients receive treatment either at their hospital bedside or where clinically appropriate as an outpatient in an NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) unit. NHSBT provides regional access to apheresis services from 10 dedicated units across England and Wales (Bristol, London, Oxford, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Plymouth, Cambridge and Liverpool) with each unit led by a team of specialist medical and nursing staff. Prior to commencing a formal procurement process and to help inform strategy requirements, NHSBT would like to consult the market to establish the level of interest for the purchase of therapeutic apheresis machines, consumables and maintenance, to support provision of new Therapeutic Apheresis Systems for Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP), Apheresis Collection, Exchange and Depletion Procedures (including Bone Marrow), and associated consumables and maintenance. Requirements also include consumables, maintenance and repair of existing NHSBT owned Cellex ECP Machines and Optia Multi-Apheresis Machines.

### Planning Information

NHSBT wishes to invite those organisations who express an interest in this opportunity to Supplier engagement meetings to be held during September 2025. Any interested organisations are asked to contact rowena.thomas@nhsbt.nhs.uk by no later than 17:00 on the 18th August 2025 to express their interest. If you do not respond by this date, you are not excluded from participating in the forthcoming tender, this date is to allow for optional supplier engagement meetings to be organised. There is no guarantee that a formal procurement process will be launched as a result of this early market engagement exercise, nor that any contract(s) will be placed. No remuneration or compensation etc will be paid to organisations who take part in this early market engagement exercise. Suppliers should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position. Further information e.g. draft technical specification, award criteria, timescales, may be released for consultation purposes only, to organisations who express an interest in this notice. Please note that all details are subject to change.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040642-2025 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 16 Jul 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 1 Mar 2026 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Feb 2027 - 1 Feb 2037 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £65,000,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planning |
| Lots status | Planning |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT |
| Locality | BRISTOL |
| Post town | Bristol |
| Postcode | BS34 7QH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England |
| ITL 3 | TLK52 Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire |
| Local authority | South Gloucestershire |
| Electoral ward | Filton |
| Westminster constituency | Filton and Bradley Stoke |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 33 - Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
- 50 - Repair and maintenance services

### Codes

- 33100000 - Medical equipments
- 33140000 - Medical consumables
- 50421000 - Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment

## Release History

- 16 Jul 2025 at 15:24 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040642-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040642-2025
  16th July 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/

## Provenance

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