Official UK procurement notice
Antiretroviral Drugs · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupply of Antiretroviral Drugs which are all shortly due to lose their patent exclusivity (or have previously lost their exclusivity) and therefore will have competition available in the UK.
CPV: Pharmaceutical products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
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) buys Pharmaceutical products (CPV 3360), and who usually turns up
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Pharmaceutical products (CPV 3360) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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. 159 known-size awards sit across 15 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 31 days of the bid deadline.
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The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid10% / 0%
2–328% / 21%
4–628% / 14%
7+34% / 64%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate46% / 38%
Within ±2%32% / 38%
Above estimate22% / 25%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 3360Published estimate£1.5m
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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 14 past lots.
1 bid0%
2–321%
4–614%
7+64%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Gilead Sciences LtdLive contract | Antiretroviral Drugsruns to Jun 2028 | — | £20m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| ViiV HealthcareLive contract | Antiretroviral Drugsruns to Jun 2028 | — | £12m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| JanssenLive contract | Antiretroviral Drugsruns to Jun 2028 | — | £3.0m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Lupin Healthcare UK LtdLive contract | Antiretroviral Drugsruns to Jun 2028 | — | £1.1m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Merck Sharpe and Dohme (UK) LimitedLive contract | Antiretroviral Drugsruns to Jun 2028 | — | £581k | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
100% title match.
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100% title match.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Antiretroviral Drugs — held by Gilead Sciences Ltd and ViiV Healthcare (+1 more); the published contract ends 30 Jun 2028.
Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091362- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b5fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published46 days ago28 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST
- Market engagement7 days ago6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
This notice is being issued to advise suppliers of a forthcoming opportunity that is due to be published by Velindre NHS Trust, NHS Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services (on behalf of All Wales Health Boards and Trusts).
This contract is for Antiretroviral Drugs which are all shortly due to lose their patent exclusivity (or have previously lost their exclusivity) and therefore will have competition available in the UK.
There is no formal engagement process for this opportunity.
Any suppliers who may like more information on this opportunity before the tender is published please contact Rachelle Elvin ([email protected]).
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 16 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 137 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 11:47 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- 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