Contract award · 9 Mar 2021
HLA TISSUE TYPING FOR BONE MARROW VOLUNTEER DONORS PERFORMED BY 3RD PARTY SUPPLIER
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) awarded “HLA TISSUE TYPING FOR BONE MARROW VOLUNTEER DONORS PERFORMED BY 3RD PARTY SUPPLIER” to Histogenetics for £140k on 9 Mar 2021. Awarded without open competition.
No competition- Buyer
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Histogenetics
- Value
- £140,000
- Contract date
- 9 Mar 2021
- Published
- 10 Mar 2021
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Blood-testing reagents (CPV 33696200)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 004782-2021 on Find a Tender
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Description
The unrelated bone marrow volunteer donors are recruited at blood session and added to the donor panel, the HLA tissue typing is outsourced to a 3rd party supplier. The Tissue typing is critical to the matching of a donor with a patient and hence the provision of a life-saving stem cell transplant. The service provided is HLA tissue typing for all relevant genetic markers to facilitate a stem cell transplant. The supplier provides CCR5 testing CCR5 testing (mutation called delta 32 that is protective against the common HIV virus strains)
About the supplier
- Histogenetics: every public contract they have won.