Awarded contract

Supply of Pathology Tests (Gastro Panel and Clostridium Difficile) and Laboratory Equipment Maintenance

Details

Supplier(s)
Chrystal Medical
Value
£1,892,741
Duration
5 years
Topic
Diagnostic supplies
Published
5 November 2025

Tender description

This is a Contract Award Notice for a 5 year contract, via The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub Framework ref 2021/S 000-025285, for the supply of Gastro Panel and C.difficile tests and maintenance for the EntericBio Realtime PCR laboratory equipment. The equipment will be replaced within year 2-3 of the contract. The contract value is £1,892,741.00 (excluding VAT).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 November 2025
  2. Completed: Award published5 November 2025
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 October 2030in 4 years

About the buyer

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust delivers acute and community hospital care across Merseyside and West Lancashire, and buys as a healthcare organisation with its own procurement department. Tenders are advertised on Find a Tender, the government portal used for the trust's higher-value contracts. Clinical work such as insourced diagnostic services is procured under the Provider Selection Regime. Grounds maintenance and estates contracts are tendered separately as support work.

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 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and IT services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33124130 · Diagnostic supplies
  • 33141625 · Diagnostic kits
  • 71900000 · Laboratory services
  • 85111800 · Pathology services

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