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 Greater Glasgow and Clyde · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Revvity (UK) Limited
- Value
- £158,772
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Medical consumables (CPV 33140000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 046165-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Aug 2025
- Published5 Aug 2025Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) hosts the nationally commissioned Scottish New born Screening Laboratory (herein ‘SNSL’) which provides the new born blood spot screening for all babies born in Scotland. The SNSL provides all fourteen regional health boards in Scotland with the dried blood spot card, this is a CE, IVD marked sample collection device (herein ‘the bloodspot card’). The local midwifery services use the bloodspot cards to take a heel prick sample from all new born babies, these samples are then returned to the SNSL where sample processing takes place. The bloodspot programmes bespoke screening cards are specifically designed by the National Services Division for the purpose of screening new born babies in Scotland for a number of diseases. The design of the cards includes a card portion which can be completed by the midwife to include all required demographical information for the baby, and a filter paper portion where the blood is applied. The filter paper must adh…
About the supplier
Revvity (UK) Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03763278).