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Managed Service Contract for the Clinical Biochemistry and Virology Services

Details

Buyer: York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Published: 30 September 2026
Submission: 14 October 2026in 2 weeks
Source: uk:atamis:dhsc

Tender description

This tender relates to a procurement to award a single lot for the provision of a Managed Service Contract for the Clinical Biochemistry and Virology services for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The procurement is being carried out as a further competition under the NHS Supply Chain Laboratory Diagnostics, Point of Care Testing and Pathology Managed Services Framework, Lot 1, Managed Services. Eligibility to participate in this tender is limited to suppliers approved under lot 1 of the NHS Supply Chain Laboratory Diagnostics, Point of Care Testing and Pathology Managed Services Framework The Scarborough Hull York Pathology Service (SHYPS) is a mature pathology network that has been formed from two services operated by the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust (YSTHFT) and Hull Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH). It is a clinically lead service that incorporates a range of laboratory disciplines across 4 acute hospital sites and covers numerous community, specialist, and primary care facilities across a wide geography.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published30 September 2026
Current notice
Next: Submission date14 October 2026in 2 weeks

About the buyer

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs hospital services across York and Scarborough, buying as an NHS trust through a shared procurement function. Procurement documents and tender notices appear on the Health Family eSourcing portal, with submissions made electronically. Larger contracts are also advertised on Find a Tender. The Trust shares this function with Hull University Teaching Hospitals and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole, its partners in the Humber and North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative. Suppliers register through the Achilles assurance platform for shared visibility.

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 York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in repair and maintenance, health and social work and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.