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Published 7 Oct 2026, 12:53 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Aseptic Pharmacy Products — UK public procurement notice

Authority: The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (Central government)

GoodsBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Sectors: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (38) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£45,000≈ £23k / year · £54,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 16 Oct 202617:00 BST · 9d 3h left
Contract term 2 yrsstarts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Aseptic Pharmacy Consumables

CPV: Laboratory pipettes and accessories

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 2 yrsPublished value£45,000
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 — 30 Nov 2028 (2 yrs)Turnover guideline: ~£44,938/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£45,000 exc. VAT · £54,000 inc. VAT
38437000 Laboratory pipettes and accessories

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids are scored

Best value for money

Conditions of participation1
  • Condition of participation
    Fill out RFQ documentation
What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £44,938 (twice the annual value).

Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust buys Detection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843) — and who usually turns up

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust’s own published record, next to the West Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Detection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
The marketDetection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843) · West Midlands (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 29 known-size awards · market: CPV 3843, n=10
34%40%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 West Midlands.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 5 known-location awards · market: CPV 3843, n=11
60%36%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no dates · market: no dates
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No published decision dates to compare.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 11 of 45 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=14
24%57%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo published bid counts
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The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 3843
43% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid43%
Market: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–343%
Market: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–614%
Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+0%
Market: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
36% below estimate
The market5 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3843
0% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate36% / 0%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%18% / 80%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate45% / 20%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 3843 24 monthsPublished value£45,000
Expected competition
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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.

The bar shows 37 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—38% single-bid risk
Past bids on 37 similar lots
1 bid38%
14 of 37 similar past lots received 1 bid (38%).
2–343%
16 of 37 similar past lots received 2–3 (43%).
4–614%
5 of 37 similar past lots received 4–6 (14%).
7+5%
2 of 37 similar past lots received 7+ (5%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the winning 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 guide, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is £45k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
7 Oct 2026, 12:53 BST
Last source update
7 Oct 2026, 12:53 BST
Authority reference
C475726
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Laboratory pipettes and accessories
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0782a1 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via Atamis (Health Family)
Submission portal named on this notice: Atamis (Health Family) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free · one account PER buying organisation portal · password resets come "from Salesforce.com" (check spam)
Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £45,000 excludes VAT (£54,000 including VAT).

Timeline

3 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedjust passed
    7 Oct 2026, 12:53 BST
  2. Submission deadlinein 9 days
    16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
  3. Contract startsin 54 days
    1 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    7 Oct 2026, 12:53 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PMRB-7317-GVDL Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury, West Midlands, SY3 8XQ

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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