Awarded contract

Automated Slide Preparation System

Details

Supplier(s)
Axlab Ltd
Value
£420,000
Topic
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
Published
14 February 2025

Tender description

Provision of a fully automatic sectioning device that is capable of cutting paraffin blocks as well as delivering sections mounted on slides, registered, dried and ready for further analysis. Lot 1: Provision of a fully automatic sectioning device that is capable of cutting paraffin blocks as well as delivering sections mounted on slides, registered, dried and ready for further analysis.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date13 February 2025
  2. Completed: Award published14 February 2025
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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

  • 38000000 · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

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