NHS Blood and Transplant: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
184 awarded tenders, 167 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occupational Driver Training | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £600,000 |
| Technical Implementation Partner & Business Change Partner (DASP) | 6 Oct 2026 | 6d | £9,166,666 |
| Supply and Support of High Through Put DNA Extraction Systems (long term) | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | £9,000,000 |
| Supply of Sample Tubes | 26 Oct 2026 | 26d | £2,900,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals83 procedures · 39% · 2 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet23 procedures · 11% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services16 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting14 procedures · 7% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental10 procedures · 5%48 Software package and information systems9 procedures · 4%71 Architectural, construction, engineering9 procedures · 4%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances7 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 211 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 74% (156 notices)
- Framework 24% (50 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (5 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Open 33% (70 notices)
- Route not published 32% (67 notices)
- Limited / restricted 21% (44 notices)
- Direct award 12% (26 notices)
- Selective 2% (4 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 25 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 211 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 12 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| VH Bio Ltd | 6 | 3.3% | 2 | 9 | 25 Feb 2026 |
| MacoPharma UK Limited | 5 | 2.7% | 3 | 5 | 20 Feb 2026 |
| CRYOPDP | 4 | 2.2% | 3 | 4 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| IBG Immucor Ltd | 4 | 2.2% | 2 | 5 | 14 Oct 2025 |
| Fresenius Kabi Limited | 4 | 2.2% | 1 | 5 | 14 Jan 2026 |
| Bio-Rad Laboratories Limited | 4 | 2.2% | 0 | 4 | 1 Nov 2023 |
| SUSSEX BIOLOGICALS LTD | 3 | 1.6% | 2 | 4 | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Grifols UK | 3 | 1.6% | 2 | 3 | 16 Jun 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 184 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 167 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Organ Donation Transportation | IMT MEDICAL TRANSPORT LIMITED | — | 6 yrs | £113,000,000 † ≈ £19m/yr |
| Microbiology & Serology Testing - Contract A | Abbott Laboratories Limited | — | — | £28,565,218 † |
| Nucleic Acid Testing | ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED | — | — | £27,070,000 † |
| Support of existing NHSBT owned Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) Systems | Therakos (UK), Ltd | — | — | £8,000,000 † |
| Hematos Licencing, Support and Maintenance Services | Savant Ltd | — | — | £7,870,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 74 of 297 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Maintenance of Microbiological safety cabinets and Laminar air flow cabinets. | Envair Technology | 30 Sept 2026 | Not published |
| Stratford Donor Centre Construction | Ashco Building And Maintenance Services Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £1,431,624 |
| Media Buying | WPP plc | 30 Sept 2026 | £1,800,000 |
| Improvement to the Manufacturing Suite at CBC | Enbloc | 1 Dec 2026 | £54,573 |
| Supply of Copper Sulphate Solution | VWR International Ltd | 10 Dec 2026 | £700,000 |
| Supply of Copper Sulphate Solution | VWR International Ltd | 10 Dec 2026 | £1,050,000 |
| Framework Agreement for the supply of tube sealers, PPM and repair services | AB Scientific Limited | 10 Jan 2027 | £1,946,327 |
| Employee Services for NHSBT | Edenred | 31 Jan 2027 | £76,436 |
| Mobile EV Charger | FELLTEN LTD | 31 Mar 2027 | £393,800 |
| Legal Services Digital Transformation | LegalFLY Ltd | 13 Apr 2027 | £39,880 |
Soonest 10 of 22 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 399 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Repair and Maintenance of Existing Blood Component Transport ContainersBody transport containers | Awarded / complete | 22 Sept 2026 | £2,087,000 |
| Chromatography System | Awarded / complete | 16 Sept 2026 | — |
| Supply of Copper Sulphate SolutionBlood-testing reagents | Awarded / complete | 7 Sept 2026 | — |
| Media Buying | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2026 | — |
| Supply & Maintenance of Platelet Agitator and Incubator equipmentMedical equipments | Planning | 27 Aug 2026 | £1,500,000 |
| CRM Platform (Donor and Session Programme)Customer Relation Management software package | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2026 | £6,400,000 |
| Hire of Supplementary Lighting, Heating and Cooling equipmentHire of goods-transport vehicles with driver | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | £4,907,200 |
| Supply of Cryopreservation-Grade Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) ProductsLaboratory reagents | Planning | 10 Aug 2026 | £1,000,000 |
| Media Strategy and Planning | Awarded / complete | 30 Jul 2026 | — |
| Bacteriophage QC TestingSystem quality assurance assessment and review services | Open | 30 Jul 2026 | £180,000 |
| Supply of Bulk Liquid NitrogenLiquid nitrogen | Awarded / complete | 29 Jul 2026 | £7,800,000 |
| Framework Agreement for the Supply of Copper Sulphate Solution for Blood Donor Haemoglobin ScreeningCopper sulphate | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2026 | £2,250,000 |
| Supply of Human Bone Grinder including Maintenance and spare partsMachine tools for working bone | Open | 17 Jul 2026 | £145,000 |
| Estate Services Facilities ManagementAir freshener | Planned | 16 Jul 2026 | £200,000,000 |
| Commercial Vehicle Leasing. Vehicle Replacement Tranche 2026 AyvensFinancial leasing services | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| Commercial Vehicle Leasing. Vehicle Replacement Tranche 2026 AyvensFinancial leasing services | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| Completion and Delivery of National Legionella Risk AssessmentsConsulting services for water-supply and waste-water other than for construction | Open | 16 Jul 2026 | £1,960,000 |
| Framework Agreement for the Supply, Maintenance & Consumables for Multi-Apheresis and ECP SystemsMedical equipments | Open | 14 Jul 2026 | £49,800,000 |
| Stirling - National Deceased Donation Simulation | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | — |
| Newcastle - National Deceased Donation Simulation | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£886m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 205 award records on 105 procedures (193 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier, 9 with no supplier published). 57 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 74 of 297 published contracts carry a period end; 22 end within 18 months, 8 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (16 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PDBY-6395-VWBP