Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- bioMerieux UK Ltd
- Value
- £88,500
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Medical equipments (CPV 33100000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 076391-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Nov 2025
- Published24 Nov 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), part of NHS National Services Scotland (NHS NSS) (“Health Board”) were commencing a Procurement Exercise for a new nucleic acid extraction system, based at the Jack Copland Centre, Edinburgh. This would be used to perform confirmatory Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) testing on all blood, tissue and cell donations that were reactive in the initial screening assays. The National Microbiology Reference Unit (NMRU) also performs NAT screening on any blood, tissue and cell donations that fail, or were not suitable for NAT testing, on the automated Donor Testing platforms. This Tender covered the purchase and installation of one (1) Nucleic Acid Extraction System. This included the software, training, and equipment and associated maintenance required for their operation. The supplier should act as the Principal Contractor and should be responsible for the supply, installation and commissioning of the replacement system and associated equip…
About the supplier
bioMerieux UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01061914).