Awarded contract

Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning and Post-Warranty Maintenance of an Automated System for the Embedding of Tissue Samples in Paraffin Wax including Tracking, Transport and Storage and Retrieval of Wax Tissue Blocks

Details

Supplier(s)
Axlab Ltd
Value
£1,900,000
Duration
7 years
Topic
Automation system
Published
4 February 2026

Tender description

Framework Call-Off for Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning and Post-Warranty Maintenance of an Automated System for the Embedding of Tissue Samples in Paraffin Wax including Tracking, Transport and Storage and Retrieval of Wax Tissue Blocks ## Contract award ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published4 February 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date4 February 2026
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2033in 7 years

About the buyer

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust with its own procurement team. The trust runs Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Suppliers register on its Bravo Solution e-tendering portal to bid for opportunities. Larger contracts are also advertised on the Find a Tender service. Some equipment and maintenance work is sourced through NHS Supply Chain. New builds, the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital and Cambridge Children's Hospital, are driving IT and construction tenders.

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 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48921000 · Automation system

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