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# CON/217/RX4 = Supply of COBALT Drug Trial Requirements

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/con-217-rx4-supply-of-cobalt-drug-trial-requirements-ocds-h6vhtk-02c661). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust: "CON/217/RX4 = Supply of COBALT Drug Trial Requirements". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 10 Aug 2021, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cumbria-northumberland-tyne-and-wear-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rx4)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 10 August 2021 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Pharmaceutical products
- **Delivery Location:** UKC
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02c661`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/con-217-rx4-supply-of-cobalt-drug-trial-requirements-ocds-h6vhtk-02c661#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3Db5e15d62-b4e0-eb11-810d-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/con-217-rx4-supply-of-cobalt-drug-trial-requirements-ocds-h6vhtk-02c661#participate

## Description
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust are seeking expressions of interest from capable bidders for the following opportunity:
COmBining memantine And cholinesterase inhibitors in Lewy body dementia treatment Trial (COBALT)
Introduction
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) and The University of Melbourne (UoM), Australia have successfully bid for funding to run 2 National, multi-site, placebo controlled clinical trial assessing if adjunctive Memantine use in patients with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia (PDD) has any effect on Clinical Global Impression (CGI) after 6 or 12 months. One trial will be based in the UK and sponsored by CNTW NHS FT and the second trial will be sponsored and run in Australia by The University of Melbourne (UoM). Both trials will run at the same time, use the same protocol, trial management and Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP). The trial will require active treatment with Memantine 5mg and 10mg tablets for a period of 12 months and the manufacture of a matching placebo 5mg and 10mg tablets.
The trial will be run in the UK by the Dementia Research Team at Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre and sponsored by CNTW NHS FT.
Full details of the opportunity can be found in the tender documents. To access these documents please 'express an interest' via the tender portal link detailed on this page.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKC

- **Description:** See II.1.4. Short description and Tender documents for further detail.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016111-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-07-09T14:24:23.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T11:34:00.883Z
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