Awarded contract

Pipette Tips

Details

Buyer: Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
Supplier(s): Mettler Toledo
Value: £75,622.92
Duration: 1 year
Topic: Pipettes
Published: 8 June 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This procurement is for the supply of high-volume pipette tips used daily across AWMGS and Toxicology services. These consumables must be fully compatible with existing Mettler Toledo Rainin LTS pipette systems to maintain accuracy and continuity of diagnostic testing.Due to the patented design of the Rainin LTS system, this requirement is considered proprietary. While the wider consumables market is active, there are no alternative pipette tips currently clinically validated and approved for use within AWMGS and Toxicology services that meet the required standards.Use of non-approved alternatives would introduce risks to analytical accuracy, patient safety, and service continuity. As such, supply is effectively limited to Mettler Toledo and its authorised distributors.This approach ensures continuity of service, standardisation of processes, and assured supply of clinically approved consumables. ## Contract award Title: Pipette tips

Timeline

Completed: Award date5 June 2026
Completed: Award published8 June 2026
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date21 June 2027in 9 months

About the buyer

Cardiff & Vale University Health Board runs hospital and community health services for Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, and buys as a healthcare organisation through NHS Wales' shared procurement service. NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership carries out procurement on its behalf, hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust. Tenders and frameworks are advertised on Sell2Wales, the national portal for Welsh public sector opportunities. Suppliers submit bids through the Bravo e-tenderwales system. Frameworks span medical, pharmaceutical and facilities goods and services.

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 Cardiff & Vale University Health Board's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, health and social work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

38437100 · Pipettes

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@cardiff-vale-university-health-board.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@cardiff-vale-university-health-board.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@cardiff-vale-university-health-board.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@cardiff-vale-university-health-board.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@cardiff-vale-university-health-board.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@cardiff-vale-university-health-board.gov