Official UK procurement notice
Commercial Partner for Aseptic Services
Authority: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Central government)·Consortium: 6 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Founding NHS Trusts seek a commercial partner to establish an innovative company to design, build, commission, and operate a purpose-built MHRA-licensed aseptic manufacturing facility serving the West Midlands region. The Founding NHS Trusts would be an associate having significant control. This partnership will address critical regional infrastructure challenges where aging NHS facilities require significant capital investment. The model would seek to leverage commercial capital (£20 million+) and operational expertise while maintaining NHS clinical governance and providing founding trusts with at-cost services.
Chemotherapy and cytotoxic preparations
CIVAS (Centralised Intravenous Additive Services)
OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy)
Non-cytotoxic monoclonal antibodies
Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)
Other sterile preparations (intrathecal, intra-articular, epidural, ophthalmic)
Excluded: Radiopharmaceuticals, Clinical trial/IMP preparation
The Founding NHS Trusts intend to conduct Preliminary Market Engagement following publication of this notice and prior to publishing the Tender Notice.
Purpose:
Present detailed commercial opportunity to potential bidders. Gather market intelligence on innovative facility design and operational approaches.
CONTRACTING AUTHORITY RIGHTS
The Founding NHS Trusts reserve the right to:
Amend or cancel the procurement at any stage
Vary the procurement timetable
Request clarifications or additional information
Reject any or all tenders
Negotiate final terms with preferred bidder to inform final business case for sign-off by the Founding Trust Boards and NHSE
Not award a contract if no suitable bidder is identified
It also needs to be noted that Cabinet Office Spend Controls prior to ITT release would need to approve the progression.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Pharmaceutical products · Pharmacy services · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
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.
Here, local means registered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside West Midlands.
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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 43 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid16%
2–326%
4–616%
7+42%
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 estimate45%
Within ±2%55%
Above estimate0%
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 8514Published estimate£242m
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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 19 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–326%
4–616%
7+42%
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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
- 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
- 19 Dec 2025, 10:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Dec 2025, 09:27 GMT
- Authority reference
C402532- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-086053- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f9faFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Dec 2025 → 3 Aug 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published307 days ago19 Dec 2025, 10:14 GMT
- Latest notice published302 days ago24 Dec 2025, 09:27 GMT
- Market engagement278 days ago16 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
We are seeking suppliers who are currently operating or have capability to operate a aseptic compounding unit in the West Midlands.
Can you please confirm attendance to a MS Teams invite on the following dates, times will be provided by the Trust first come basis, each session will be a max 30mins:
Wednesday 7th January 2026 12.30 onwards
Friday 9th January 2026 2pm onwards
Please contact Sanjeev Narwal (Director of Procurement) at [email protected] to attend one of the engagement days.
- Tender notice expected205 days ago30 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts80 days ago3 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 Dec 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Dec 2025, 10:14 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Dec 2025, 09:27 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Instruction Change for contacting the buyer
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
6 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- The County HospitalContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender