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
- Value
- £29,800,000 across 2 lots
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Architecture & engineering · Laboratory services (CPV 71900000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 068930-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 May 2025
- Published28 Oct 2025Published 180 days after the contract date
Description
NHS Blood and Transplant requires a direct contractual relationship with either a manufacturer or any other economic operator for a complete end-to-end integrated solution for the Microbiology Serology screening/testing of blood and non-blood donations , which must include all the necessary equipment, installation, maintenance, consumables, reagents, software including an inter-interoperability provision with NHSBTs existing IT infrastructure and overall ongoing support mechanism that may be required to carry out the necessary testing.
Lots in this award
| Lot | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Microbiology and Serology Testing | Abbott Laboratories Limited | £28.6m |
| Microbiology and Serology Testing | Roche Diagnostics Limited | £1.23m |
About the suppliers
Abbott Laboratories Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00329102).
Roche Diagnostics Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00571546).