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Contract for the Provision of Drug, Alcohol and DNA Testing Services

Services provided by medical laboratories
Wales (UKL18)
Published value
£350,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: City & County of Swansea: "Contract for the Provision of Drug, Alcohol and DNA Testing Services". Published status: planning. Published value: £350,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityCity & County of SwanseaScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£350,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: City & County of Swansea
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for City & County of Swansea. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
11.7Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
STUDTS EVENTS LIMITEDTop vendor: 100% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 168 active published awards; 22 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
STUDTS EVENTS LIMITED1 win£325,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityCity & County of Swansea
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
Last source update28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationServices provided by medical laboratories
Delivery area
Wales (UKL18)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06ee82
What is being bought
Swansea Council is currently developing their service specification, contracting process and commercial model for the Provision of Drug, Alcohol and DNA Testing Services. This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) seeks the views and opinions of those organisations that may be interested in delivering these specialist services. The exercise will be used to test the feasibility of Swansea Council’s indicative proposals, explore potential delivery models, and understand market capacity and appetite ahead of any possible future procurements.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £350,000
    28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
  2. Procedure published
    28 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
  3. engagement
    11 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    Swansea Council has created an Market Engagement Questionnaire (MEQ) which seeks the views and opinions of those organisations that may be interested in delivering the services. The Market Engagement Questionnaire (MEQ) can be completed using the following Microsoft Forms Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/ZbGAni6Lhx Please copy and paste the above link into your internet search bar to access (as this notice does not recognise embedded links) Please submit your completed MEQ by no later than 12:00 noon on the 11th September 2026. Participation in this engagement exercise is not a mandatory requirement for participating in any potential future procurement; however, responses received will assist to inform Swansea Council as to the level of interest from the market and will be used to evidence a decision as to how to undertake a competitive procurement. This notice is not a call for competition. Swansea Council reserves the right to withdraw from undertaking a tender process at any point.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

City & County of Swansea

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PYYD-8699-BJGD
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Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published