Awarded without open competition
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.
Key facts
- Buyer
- NHS Blood and Transplant · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- IBG Immucor Ltd SME
- Value
- £6,240,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Blood analysis services (CPV 85111810)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 043039-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Jul 2025
- Published25 Jul 2025Published the same day
Description
NHSBT will award a Managed Service Contract for the supply of commercially available automated blood group testing equipment for use as a secondary testing technology for ABO and Rh D typing, antibody screening and identification, extended red cell phenotyping and HbAS (heterozygous sickle cell trait) screening for donor blood, tissues and stem cell (haemopoietic progenitor cells and therapeutic cells) samples.
About the supplier
IBG Immucor Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02255660).