Awarded contract

Primary Blood Grouping Analyser & Associated Consumables

Details

Value
£1,818,311
Duration
5 years
Topic
Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment
Published
28 September 2026

Tender description

Lot 1: Provision of a managed service comprising the supply of Primary Blood Grouping Analysers, incorporating all equipment, test kits, reagents, relevant controls and calibrators, I.T.peripherals, delivery, installation, training and fully comprehensive systems maintenance. Contract length - 5 years for with the option for five (5), twelve (12) month extensions. Donor Testing is staffed 24/7 however the focus for Primary testing is from 07.00 to 16.00, Mondays to Saturday. All testing must be completed by 15.00 to allow labelling of the blood components. SNBTS collects approximately 150,000 donations per year and approximately 10% of which are first time donors. Testing is performed on EDTA whole blood samples. The new blood grouping system will be required to perform the following tests: - ABO/RhD typing including all D Categories and reverse typing using A1 and B cells - Antibody screen - High titre anti-A/B screen - Extended Rh phenotyping (C, c, E, e) - K typing

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 February 2024
  2. Completed: Award published28 September 2026
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 January 2029in 2 years

About the buyer

The Common Services Agency, better known as Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland), procures goods and services for NHS Scotland's hospitals and health boards. National Procurement, PSD Scotland's central buying team, sources high-volume items such as medical supplies and pharmaceuticals for the whole health service. Individual health boards manage smaller, local contracts separately. Larger notices also appear through the Tenders Direct and SIMAP services.

Over the past 5 years, most of PSD Scotland's contract awards have been in IT services, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and education and training.

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