Stale Pre-tender

Market Engagement - Pathology Reporting Services

Details

Value
£120,000,000
Topic
Administrative healthcare services
Published
13 February 2025

Tender description

EoECPH would like to approach the marketplace to gather market intelligence around a potential new framework for Pathology Reporting Services. Lot 1: The purpose of the PIN is to gauge interest and connect with providers within this market-place to better understand market interest, capability and capacity to deliver the requirements. This notice is for information only and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to not proceed to tender or at its absolute discretion to amend it at the time of issue of any further notice or notices or at any other time.<br/><br/>As part of this pre-tender strategy, EOECPH would like to connect with providers of this type of service via a pre-market engagement exercise. We are therefore asking for assistance through completion of our questionnaire. The information provided will help us to form and shape the service specification for a framework that will be conducted under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) that will last 4 years.<br/><br/>The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system, Atamis, in any resulting procurement exercise.<br/><br/>The questionnaire will run on:<br/>The Atamis portal:<br/>https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome<br/> <br/>How to access the Questionnaire on the portal:<br/>• Suppliers should register on the portal, if not already registered:<br/>• To Express an Interest in this market engagement, search and Select contract reference – C339097 - Market Engagement – Pathology Reporting Services.<br/>• Please complete the questionnaire within the requirements section<br/>• Suppliers can contact the Atamis helpdesk at -<br/>• support-health@atamis.co.uk or by calling 0800 9956035 for technical assistance when completing responses<br/><br/>The closing time and date for the return of your responses are 12.00pm on 17th March 2025. Responses received after this date may be considered at EoECPH discretion.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published13 February 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust delivering hospital and community services, buying through its own procurement team. Tenders above threshold are advertised on Find a Tender. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service. The Trust hosts the East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub. Procurement specialists, market experts and data analysts staff the hub for NHS organisations region-wide. Joint consortia contracts cover waste, enteral feeding and laundry services with neighbouring trusts.

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 West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 75122000 · Administrative healthcare services
  • 85100000 · Health services
  • 85110000 · Hospital and related services
  • 85111100 · Surgical hospital services
  • 85111200 · Medical hospital services
  • 85111800 · Pathology services
  • 85112000 · Hospital support services
  • 85121200 · Medical specialist services
  • 85140000 · Miscellaneous health services

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