Expired contract

Managed Service for Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT)

Details

Value
£4,250,000
Duration
10 years
Topic
Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment
Published
10 September 2025

Tender description

Lot 1: The current managed service comprises the supply of a fully integrated microbiology managed service system for NAT (Nucleic Acid Testing). This includes equipment, maintenance, consumables, spare parts, upgrades, training, clinical education material, remote diagnostics, reporting and supports all to deliver a final result to the Authority’s information management system. Mandatory assays include the ability to detect HCV RNA (and HIV RNA for SNBTS) in plasma/serum samples from blood donors and also HCV RNA, HIV RNA and HBV DNA in plasma/ serum samples from tissue and stem cell donors.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 November 2015
  2. Completed: Award published10 September 2025
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date31 October 2025

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. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland.

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.

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