Official UK procurement notice
All Wales Dressings IV & Medical Tapes Tender
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTender for all items listed under Dressings IV & Medical Tapes.
Lots are as follows:
LOT 01 - Dressings, IV, CHG
LOT 02 - Dressings, IV, Non-Ported
LOT 03 - Dressings IV, Ported
LOT 04 - Dressings IV, CVC/PICC
LOT 05 - Dressings IV, Ported, Extra Adhesive
LOT 06 - Dressing Foam Disk, CHG
LOT 07 - Island Adhesive Plastic Dressings
LOT 08 - Elastic Adhesive Tape
LOT 09 - Non Woven Permeable Synthetic Tape
LOT 10 - Plastic Impermeable Tape
LOT 11 - Surgical Cover Dressings
LOT 12 - Plastic Permeable Synthetic Tape
LOT 13 - Silicone Permeable Synthetic Tape
LOT 14 - Paraffin Gauze Dressings
LOT 15 - Non-Elasticated Wound Closure Strips
LOT 16: Woven Permeable Synthetic Tape
LOT 17 - Soft Cloth Surgical Tapes
LOT 18 - Foam Adhesive Dressing
LOT 19 - Medical Adhesive Foam Tape
LOT 20 - Absorbent Adhesive Dressings
LOT 21 - Paediatric IV Dressings
LOT 22 - Dressings, IV, Non-Ported, Extra Adhesive
This tender will be awarded on a sole supplier basis.
CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Nov 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “All Wales Dressings IV & Medical Tapes Tender” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) runs Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33) tenders for its clients, and who usually turns up
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) procures on behalf of other bodies; its record below covers every client it has tendered for, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 106 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid12% / 10%
2–326% / 26%
4–615% / 33%
7+47% / 31%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Published estimate£1.9m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 125 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–326%
4–633%
7+31%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 23 Jul 2026, 13:19 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Jul 2026, 13:19 BST
- Authority reference
MED-FTS-63688- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-069726- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d1f4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
23 Jul 2026 → 1 Nov 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published89 days ago23 Jul 2026, 13:19 BST
- Market engagement57 days ago24 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
The All Wales Procurement Team is planning to tender for dressings, IV dressings and surgical tapes in the near future. A list of the Lots included within the procurement can be found in the associated UK2 notice.
The intention is to award the contract on a sole supplier basis, with the new contract planned for implementation in November 2027.
A formal pre-market engagement event will not be held for this procurement. However, suppliers who would like further information or wish to discuss the opportunity in more detail are invited to contact the Procurement Team by 24 August.
If you would like to discuss this tender opportunity further, please contact:
Tom Neil - [email protected]
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 34 days23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 376 days1 Nov 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Jul 2026, 13:19 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender