Contract award · 31 Jan 2026

NHS England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Managed Service

NHS England awarded “NHS England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Managed Service” to GXO Logistics UK Limited for £210m on 31 Jan 2026.

Medical equipment & pharmaceuticalsYorkshire and the Humber

BuyerNHS England
Value £210m

Open competition

Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.

Key facts

Buyer
NHS England · Body governed by public law
Value
£210,462,766.20
Procedure
Open procedure (above threshold)
Sector
Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals · Diagnostic kits (CPV 33141625)
Timeline
  1. Contract date31 Jan 2026
  2. Published21 Apr 2026Published 80 days after the contract date

Description

The appointment of GXO Logistics Ltd to deliver the Managed Service Provider contract for the continued provision of Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) home testing kits to those eligible for the bowel cancer screening programme throughout England. These tests allow those at risk of cancer, and requiring further tests, to be identified and provision is an essential component of the screening pathway. Further tests after FIT are typically screening specialist practitioner review and a screening colonoscopy. The MSP contract broadly covers; the sending of personalised FIT kits to eligible participants in England, management of the logistics to return kits to the five NHS bowel cancer screening hubs, the supply of analysers and consumables to all hubs to test the kits, provision of training for hub staff to analyse the kits, the systems to allow results to be transferred to the Bowel Cancer Screening System (BCSS) software and a helpdesk function to resolve any issues with the service prov…

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