Expired contract

Planned Care Outsourcing - Ophthalmology

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): SpaMedica, Newmedica
Value: £23,666.51
Duration: 2 months
Topic: Health services
Published: 22 July 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Planned Care Outsourcing of Ophthalmology Procedures to reduce patient waiting lists in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Lot 1: This is a Provider Selection Regime Wales (PSR Wales) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015/Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. This contract has now been formally awarded based on a framework agreement with competition. Call off from a framework agreement with a competition confirmation of contract award notice, for the avoidance of doubt, this notice does not represent a modification of contract.

Timeline

Completed: Award published22 July 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date1 August 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date30 September 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

85100000 · Health services
85121281 · Ophthalmologist services

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