Awarded contract

Contraceptive Medicines

Details

Value
£11,431,058
Topic
Pharmaceutical products
Published
13 August 2026

Tender description

This Framework Agreement is for the supply of Contraceptive Medicines to health boards across NHS Scotland. The Goods have been split into five (5) categories, each of which is identified as a "Lot". Full details of each Lot is contained in section II.2 of this notice. Lot 1: Oral Contraceptive Tablets Supply of Oral Contraceptive Tablets to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a Unranked Multi-Supplier Framework on Line-by-Line Basis. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 2: Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device Supply of Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a Unranked Multi-Supplier Framework on Line-by-Line Basis. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 3: Contraceptives Implants Supply of Contraceptives Implants to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a Single Supplier Framework on Line-by-Line Basis. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents. Lot 4: Contraceptives Injections Supply of Contraceptives Injections to NHS Scotland. The Authority intends to award this Lot as a Single Supplier Framework on Line-by-Line Basis. Full details of Goods and volumes can be found within the ITT documents.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date6 July 2026
  2. Completed: Award published13 August 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

NHS National Services Scotland is a national healthcare body serving NHS Scotland, and its National Procurement arm is Scotland's largest procurement organisation. Tenders are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland under the buyer name Common Services Agency. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. Each contract record on the register names the framework, its dates, the winning suppliers and the National Procurement contract owner. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland. Innovative products can be submitted through an online innovation portal.

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 National Services Scotland's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 33600000 · Pharmaceutical products

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