Closed tender

Supply of Pouches for Serum Eye Drops

Details

Buyer: NHS Blood and Transplant
Value: £9,500,000
Topic: Medical consumables
Published: 21 February 2025
Submission: 24 March 2025
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Objective The National Health Service Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) provides a serum eyedrop service for patients affected by severe ocular surface disease. Serum is processed from whole blood donations collected from patients or volunteer donors into collection packs containing no anticoagulant. The serum is separated from the red cells and diluted with saline within the closed collection bag system. It must then be dispensed into individual containers before being issued to patients. This document details the requirements for a closed multi-dose dispensing system for serum eyedrops that is compatible with sterile connection to the collection bag system, for the purpose of informing a formal tender. Changes in this version Amendments to annual usage, label dimensions and number of containers per chain. Tamper evident now a requirement and external packaging requirement removed. Changes not highlighted purple due to the number of changes made within the document. Additional information: To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk

Timeline

Completed: Tender published21 February 2025
Current notice
Completed: Submission date24 March 2025

About the buyer

NHS Blood and Transplant runs the UK's blood and organ donation services, and buys as a national healthcare organisation with its own procurement team. Much of its buying flows through framework agreements with the Crown Commercial Service, NHS Supply Chain and NHS Shared Business Services. Four internal teams commission separately, covering Operations, Information Technology, Strategic Goods and Estates and Services.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Blood and Transplant's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and business services.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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