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Buyer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board →

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BuyerCardiff and Vale University Health Board
StatusClosed
Deadline1 Sept 2026
Value£330,000
Published7 Aug 2026

What is being bought

In 2021, Procurement Services undertook a review of expenditure relating to printed stationery across the Health Board. The review identified ongoing demand for a range of bespoke printed materials including, but not limited to: • Community Nursing Drug Charts • Ward Control Drug Books • Specimen Bags • Hospital Register Books • Insulin Adult Prescription Charts • Patient Risk Assessment and Care Documentation • Clinical Pathway Forms • Laboratory and Referral Forms • Prescription and Administration Records Although there has been a strategic push to digitise paper-based documentation, which accelerated following the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of essential clinical and operational documents remain in hard copy format for governance, regulatory, and operational reasons. These products are utilised across multiple Clinical Boards and departments Health Board wide. Annual expenditure has reduced in recent years due to digitisation; however, there remains a consistent and essential requirement for bespoke, compliant, high-quality printed stationery. The Health Board is now seeking to establish a compliant contract via a competitive open tender to ensure value for money, resilience of supply, quality assurance, and continued service continuity. The Health Board requires a single supplier (or suitably structured solution) to provide the following. It is important to state that these items are held as unpaid stock for same and next day delivery to various hospital sites and wards:

Delivery location

UKL22, GB

Categories

Printed matter and related products 22000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£330,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Nov 2026 to 31 Oct 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Appendix G - Commercial Response - Bespoke Printing Services — Please ensure that the values submitted in every column are correct. Any mistakes may not be changed once the tender has closed. If you submit an incorrect price, unit of measure, Cardiff & Vale Procurement Services reserves the right to accept your published submission as your tender prices and subsequent revisions may not be accepted. (60%)
Appendix F - Bidder Response Document — This document sets out the information which is required by the Health Board in order to assess the suitability of potential suppliers (the "Bidder") in terms of their technical knowledge and experience, capability/capacity, organisational and financial standing to meet the Requirement. (40%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Printed matter and related productsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 22. The category anchor is Printed matter and related products (22000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 223393 median · 14.7 average (114 of 339 with a bid count)3.6 average (127 of 339 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKL2221 median · 1 average (1 of 2 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 2 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)313 median · 3 average (2 of 31 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 31 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleChallenge to Transparency Notice which resulted in the termination of the Procurement and moved to Open Tender procedure.
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06df2c
Latest release ID075324-2026
Latest release timestampFri Aug 07 2026 13:03:05 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/075324-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-09-01T14:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-08-25T16:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-10-01T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsAll tender submissions will come through eTenderWales Bravo platform. To access the tender please use the description or the Invitation to Tender reference that follows: ITT: itt_126660 - Bespoke Printing Services Services https://etenderwales-prep.bravosolution.co.uk/home.htm
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£330,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source4
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
7 Aug 2026tender075324-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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