Awarded contract

3 year service contract for Cryostat and microtomes - Leica Biosystems

Details

Supplier(s)
LEICA BIOSYSTEMS NEWCASTLE LIMITED
Duration
3 years
Topic
Contract administration services
Published
24 November 2025

Tender description

This service relates to the 3 year service contract for Cryostat and microtomes, provided by Leica Biosystems. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published24 November 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date24 November 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 December 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist NHS foundation trust running women's and children's hospital services in Birmingham. Contract opportunities and contract awards above a set threshold are published on the government's Contracts Finder service. Tenders go out through Atamis, the NHS's shared Health Family eCommercial system. Purchasing and supplies maintains its own lists of approved suppliers for goods and services. An annual Excellence in Supply Awards scheme recognises suppliers across the Midlands.

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 Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, business services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 79994000 · Contract administration services

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