Awarded contract

Gastrointestinal, Endocrine, Nutrition & Blood Medicines

Details

Value
£48,954,512
Topic
Pharmaceutical products
Published
25 July 2025

Tender description

This Framework Agreement is for the supply of Gastrointestinal, Endocrine, Nutrition & Blood Medicines to health boards across NHS Scotland. The Goods have been split into fourteen (14) categories, each of which is identified as a "Lot". Full details of each Lot is contained in section II.2 of this notice. Lot 1: Desferoxamine Injections Supply of Desferrioxamine Injections to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 2: Dexamethasone Injections Supply of Dexamethasone Injection to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 3: Macrogol Oral Powder & Solutions Supply of Macrogol to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 4: Mesalazine Oral/Rectal Preparations Supply of Mesalazine Oral/Rectal Preparations to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 5: Magnesium Sulfate Injection Supply of Magnesium Sulfate Injection to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 6: Colecalciferol & Calcium Carbonate Tablets Supply of Colecalciferol & Calcium Carbonate Tablets to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 7: Budesonide Oral/Rectal Preparations Supply of Budesonide Oral/Rectal Preparations to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 9: Trientine Tablets Supply of Trientine Tablets to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework per line . Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 10: Teriparatide Injections Supply of Teriparatide Injections to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a unranked multi-supplier framework per line to a maximum of six (6) Framework Participants. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 12: Sapropterin & Deferasirox Tablets Supply of Sapropterin & Deferasirox Tablets to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework per line . Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 13: Intravenous (IV) Iron Supply of Intravenous (IV) Iron to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework per line . Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 14: Diabetes & Weight Management Supply of Diabetes & Weight Management to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework per line . Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 15: All Other Presentations Supply of All Other Presentations to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework per line . Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 11: Tolvaptan Tablets Supply of Tolvaptan Tablets to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a single supplier framework per line . Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 July 2025
  2. Completed: Award published25 July 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

NHS National Services Scotland is a national healthcare body serving NHS Scotland, and its National Procurement arm is Scotland's largest procurement organisation. Tenders are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland under the buyer name Common Services Agency. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. Each contract record on the register names the framework, its dates, the winning suppliers and the National Procurement contract owner. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland. Innovative products can be submitted through an online innovation portal.

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 National Services Scotland's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33600000 · Pharmaceutical products

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