Stale Pre-tender

Supply of Unlicensed Medicines - Imports & Specials

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Topic: Pharmaceutical products
Published: 26 July 2024
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

This document is an initial Expression of Interest to determine the capacity and availability of providers to meet specific requirements of Health Boards across Wales for the supply of Unlicensed Medicines - Imports & Specials. The purpose is to provide sufficient information in an open manner to enable providers to gauge whether they would be interested in participating in a tender process, which is planned for later in 2024. Lot 1: Unlicensed Medicines - Imports NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership is seeking to engage the market in order to gauge the capacity and availability of suppliers for the supply of Unlicensed Medicines - Imports & Specials to Health Boards across Wales. It is anticipated that a tender will be published towards the end of 2024 and the purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to discuss potential requirements and make suppliers aware of the planned process. Lot 2: Unlicensed Medicines - Specials NHS Wales Shared Service Partnership is seeking to engage the market in order to gauge the capacity and availability of suppliers for the supply of Unlicensed Medicines - Imports & Specials to Health Boards across Wales. It is anticipated that a tender will be published towards the end of 2024 and the purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to discuss potential requirements and make suppliers aware of the planned process.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published26 July 2024
Current notice

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

33600000 · Pharmaceutical products

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov