Awarded contract

SPECIMEN TRANSPORTERS

Details

Value
£436,583
Duration
2 years
Topic
Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts
Published
9 February 2026

Tender description

WEQAS require a specialist packaging solution to distribute External Quality Assessment (EQA) material to more than 35,000 sites globally each month. The packaging must provide a compliant, leak-proof secondary containment for Exempt and Category B Biological Specimens, using sustainable materials where possible. ## Contract award Title: SPECIMEN TRANSPORTERS

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published9 February 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date9 February 2026
  3. Next: Contract expiry date22 February 2028in 17 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

  • 34900000 · Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts

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