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Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency

Find a Tender identifier: GB-PPON-PBMQ-7576-DVGW · London, UKI42, GB

Procurement processes253
Open opportunities3
Awarded procurements173
Signed contracts165
Avg. awarded suppliers1.5
Avg. reported bids71.5
Highest reported bids141
Bid-count coverage2 of 253

Value and contract picture

Published value (GBP)£13,706,846,518
Average published value (GBP)£228,447,442
Signed contract value (GBP)£695,632,372

GBP totals only, so values in another currency are never silently mixed into the total.

Procurement methods

Below threshold - without competition
129
Not published
65
Direct award
27
Open procedure
9
Below threshold - limited competition
7
Award under framework
7
Competitive flexible procedure
6
Below threshold - open competition
3

Top categories

Not published in the retained notices.

Most competitive procurements

Ranked by the number of bids reported by the buyer; a multi-lot procurement can report one count per lot.

ProcurementBids reportedValueStatus
UKHSA Diagnostics & Research Open Framework141£6,250,000,000complete
PADC Plastic Supply, Cutting and Encoding (2026-29)2£0complete

Most frequent awarded suppliers

SupplierProcurements wonPublished award value (GBP)
Porton Biopharma Limited3£20,000
Agilent Technologies LDA UK Ltd2£5,200,000,000
Bio Molecular Systems Ltd2£1,050,000,000
QCMD (Quality Control for Molecular Diagnostics)2£450,500
DH Opco UK Ltd2£121,321
GLAXOSMITHKLINE UK LIMITED2£0
Mabtech AB2Value not published
CIPD Enterprises Limited2Value not published
INTEGRA BIOSCIENCES LIMITED2Value not published
NLA Media Access Limited2Value not published

Recent and open procurements

ProcurementStatusDeadlineValue
Porton Industrial Automated Control System WorksOpen9 Sept 2026£1,950,000
Indo-Pacific Logistics and Event Management ServicesOpen11 Sept 2026£1,976,900
Porton Emergency Lighting WorksOpen23 Sept 2026£828,000
Appointment of an External Expert Advisor for UK NEQAS Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing SchemeClosed18 Jul 2025£60,000
Combined Needles and Syringes Lot 1complete15 Jan 2026£15,264,000
Patent Attorney ServicesClosed19 Jan 2026£2,784,600
Storage & Distribution of Human Medicines, Vaccines & Associated Medical ProductClosed6 Feb 2026£545,712,000
Surge Laboratory Capacity in the event of a Health Emergencycomplete2 Apr 2026£456,000,000
UKHSA Diagnostics & Research Open Frameworkcomplete8 Apr 2026£6,250,000,000
Single-molecule counting and digital quantification of RNA molecules instrumentcomplete28 May 2026£0
BCG Vaccine & TB Skin Test (2027)Closed15 Jun 2026£0
PADC Plastic Supply, Cutting and Encoding (2026-29)complete16 Jun 2026£0
Meningococcal ACWY Vaccine (2027)Closed7 Jul 2026£21,000,000
Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine (2027)Closed24 Jul 2026£0
Botulinum Antitoxin Heptavalent (2026)Closed13 Aug 2026£1
The supply of Prussian Blue (2026)Closed13 Aug 2026£1
Culture media in UKHSA regional and reference laboratoriesClosed24 Aug 2026£16,400,000
Media Buying Services contractcompleteNot publishedValue not published
Purchase of IR Instrumentation for Upgrade of GammeTracerscompleteNot publishedValue not published
Health Security Campus: Senior Construction AdvisorycompleteNot publishedValue not published

How to read these figures

Supplier count means distinct suppliers named in awards, not all bidders. Bid counts are published aggregate statistics, not a list of submitted bids. Award and contract data currently comes from the latest retained OCDS record for each procurement process.