Stale Pre-tender

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - QUEH - Pneumatic Tube System - Closed Loop System - Market Review

Details

Buyer: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Topic: Mechanical and electrical engineering services
Published: 8 December 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is undertaking a market review to inform the potential future procurement to change the existing Swisslog closed loop pneumatic tube system installed at our Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to a open source pneumatic tube system. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is issued to engage the market and gather information from suppliers capable of delivering a open source Pneumatic Tube System located at the QUEH. Lot 1: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is undertaking a market review to inform the potential future procurement to change the existing Swisslog closed loop pneumatic tube system installed at our Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to a open source pneumatic tube system. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is issued to engage the market and gather information from suppliers capable of delivering a open source Pneumatic Tube System located at the QUEH. If you are a company that can provide this requirement please make contact with Oliver Bailey Commodity Manager NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde by emailing Oliver.Bailey2@nhs.scot to discuss further.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published8 December 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is a Scottish healthcare board with its own Procurement Department. National contracts are used wherever possible, drawn from National Procurement, part of NHS National Services Scotland. Scottish Procurement frameworks and Crown Commercial Service contracts cover much of the rest. Requirements outside a national agreement go to Board-level tenders on Public Contracts Scotland. Pharmacy, capital planning, eHealth and estates each manage their own specialist procurement. Suppliers can register interest through its supplier enquiries team.

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 Greater Glasgow and Clyde's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, business services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

71334000 · Mechanical and electrical engineering services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-greater-glasgow-and-clyde.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-greater-glasgow-and-clyde.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-greater-glasgow-and-clyde.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-greater-glasgow-and-clyde.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-greater-glasgow-and-clyde.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-greater-glasgow-and-clyde.gov