Official UK procurement notice
BWC Genetics LIMS Pre-Market Engagement
Authority: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionC&S GMS is progressing the development of a Distributed Analysis (DA) operating model, enabling genomic testing activity to be undertaken across the multiple laboratory sites while operating as a single regional service. To support this model, BWC is seeking market engagement with suppliers capable of providing a modern Genomic Laboratory Information System (LIMS) to improve functionality within the wider GMS network.
The future solution must support the end-to-end genomic testing pathway, enabling laboratories across the network to access, manage, analyse and report genomic information irrespective of where testing activity is undertaken. The objective is to improve resilience, efficiency standardisation and service scalability whilst maintaining compliance with NHS, UK regulatory and information governance requirements.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 23 Sept 2026, 13:42 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 13:42 BST
- Authority reference
C473168- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07789f
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice published3 days ago23 Sept 2026, 13:42 BST
- Market engagementin 26 days21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST28 day Preliminary Market Engagement opportunity to scope a future solution for the C&S Genomics team of a Genomic Laboratory Information System (LIMS). Information available at health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ - opportunity C473168
- Tender notice expectedin 66 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 187 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Sept 2026, 13:42 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustProcuring entityBBCS Procurement Collaborative are the procurement management organisation for BWC.
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