Expired contract

Laboratory reagents

Details

Value
£100,000
Duration
5 years
Topic
Laboratory reagents
Published
24 December 2020

Tender description

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who sought to establish a contract for the supply of new born calf serum to the Welsh External Quality Assurance Service (WEQAS). The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who sought to establish a contract for the supply of new born calf serum. The serum must be: — sterile tissue culture grade from BSE free herds, — tested and found negative for Mycoplasma and Adventitious viruses, — optically clear and free of particulate matter. The successful supplier must be able to provide evidence of testing for glucose and provide 5 ml aliquots of the material prior to acceptance of any delivery. As part of the tender, a minimum of 2 lots of 100 ml samples will be required for quality testing free of charge for the WEQAS team to evaluate.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date18 December 2020
  2. Completed: Award published24 December 2020
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date22 November 2025

About the buyer

NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33696500 · Laboratory reagents

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