Official UK procurement notice
Clean Room Requalification · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS Blood and Transplant (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) have a requirement for Clean Room Requalification.
The Clinical Biotechnology Centre (CBC) at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a specialist facility that manufactures plasmids and viral vectors for early-stage clinical trials targeting incurable diseases like cancer and genetic disorders.
Operating as part of NHSBT's Cellular and Molecular Therapies function, the CBC supports the UK life sciences sector by translating laboratory research into clinical-grade therapies.
The manufacture of sterile products or tissues should be carried out in clean areas, entry to which is through change rooms/air locks/transfer hatches for personnel/equipment and materials.
These classified environments MUST be monitored and achieve the appropriate current GMP regulatory specifications for that environment as detailed in EudraLex volume 4 “The rules governing medicinal products in the European Union” Annex 1 Manufacture of sterile medicinal products.
Classification and Re-qualification is performed at a minimum annually At Rest, except for particle counts which are performed At Rest and In Operation.
CPV: Technical inspection and testing services · Technical inspection services · Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Blood and Transplant buys Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163), and who usually turns up
NHS Blood and Transplant’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163) →
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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.
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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 34 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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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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 bid33%
2–345%
4–69%
7+12%
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.
Below estimate46%
Within ±2%23%
Above estimate31%
Assess each lot i
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 #1CPV 7163Published estimate£80k
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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 68 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–322%
4–634%
7+35%
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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
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Jun 2026, 15:09 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Jun 2026, 15:09 BST
- Authority reference
C455532- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-060844- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bf4bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Jun 2026 → 2 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published115 days ago29 Jun 2026, 15:09 BST
- Market engagement97 days ago17 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
NHSBT wishes to invite those organisations who express an interest in this opportunity to Supplier engagement meetings to be held on-line via Microsoft Teams during w/c 27th July 2026. Any interested organisations are asked to contact [email protected] by no later than 17:00 on the 17th July 2026 to express their interest.
If you do not respond by this date, you are not excluded from participating in the forthcoming
tender, this date is to allow for optional supplier engagement meetings to be organised.
There is no guarantee that a formal procurement process will be launched as a result of this early market engagement exercise, nor that any contract(s) will be placed. No remuneration or compensation etc will be paid to organisations who take part in this early market engagement exercise. Suppliers should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
Further information e.g. draft technical specification, award criteria and timescales may be
released for consultation purposes only, to organisations who express an interest in this notice.
Please note that all details are subject to change.
- Tender notice expected31 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 10 days2 Nov 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Jun 2026, 15:09 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