Official UK procurement notice
EQA Material · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (Central government)
What is being bought6 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Health Board seek to establish a contract for the supply of EQA Material for Weqas.
Weqas is a National External Quality Assessment provider which monitors the analytical performance of diagnostic laboratories in the UK, Ireland and overseas. Weqas is one of the leading External Quality Assessment (EQA) providers with over 50 years experience in Quality Assurance, providing solutions in Laboratory Medicine.
Weqas is accredited to ISO 17043: Conformity Assessment - General Requirements for Proficiency Testing (4301). The Reference Laboratory is accredited to standard ISO 15195 Laboratory Medicine - Requirements for Reference Measurement Laboratories and ISO 17025-General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Weqas is a semi autonomous, non profit making organisation hosted by Cardiff and Vale uHB (legal entity). Weqas is its own independent Clinical Board within Cardiff and Vale uHB.
This contract is for Weqas who require External Quality Assessment [EQA] Material for undertaking global quality assessment programmes for Blood Gas, Co-oximetry, pO2 accuracy, Blood Gas with Haematocrit ,PoCT Hb and Hb variants.
Weqas has a manufacturing facility which manufactures EQA and IQC (Internal Quality Control) material, and therefore, manufactures the majority of products in house, however, some specialized products need to be sourced from a third party supplier.
The product specification will detail the material required to be supplied from this external source for Quality Assurance testing.
CPV: Laboratory reagents
Lots and requirements (6)Procurement structure
6 lots · no lot values published · a supplier may bid for at most 6 and win at most 6 of them · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1EQA Material for Blood GasRenewal
Lot #2EQA material for assessing accuracy of pO2
Lot #3EQA material for Blood Gas with Haematocrit
Lot #4Material for Hb Variants
Lot #5Material for Co-oximetry
Lot #6Material for POCT Hb
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 65%
- price: 35%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical: 65
- Price: 35
- Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Feb 2025, 16:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Feb 2025, 16:14 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 31 Mar 2025 – …
- Authority reference
CAV-OJEU-58465- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-006980- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: Bidders should note that they will be required to enter into terms and conditions of contract as set out in the tender documents and that save for matters of clarification or consistency, the contracting authority will not negotiate the terms. The Contracting Authority is proposing to use the Open Procedure to conduct this procurement. Velindre University NHS Trust will award the contract as hosts of NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services. For the avoidance of doubt, Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board will be entering into the contract with the appointed provider. All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders. The contracting authority reserves the right to award the Contract in whole or in part. The contracting authority reserves the right to pause, halt and/or annul the tendering process and not to award the Contract. The Contract to which this procurement relates are funded via Welsh Government funding. Please refer to the invitation to tender for rights reserved to the contracting authority should the said funding cease or reduce. Delivery of the requirement under the proposed Contract is on 1st July 2024. To complete your formal proposal, please access the ITT via the Bravo eTender Wales portal where you will find a full suite of tender documentation. 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) - Browse the eSourcing portal: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/ and click the link to register - Accept the Ts and Cs and click 'continue' - Enter your correct business/user details 2. Express and interest in the tender - Log into the portal with the username/password - Click the 'ITT Open to all suppliers' link - Click on ITT_115527 - Click the 'express interest' button at the top of the page - This will move the ITT into your 'my ITT's page (this is a secure area reserved for your projects only) - You can now access any attachments by clicking 'buyer attachments' in the 'ITT details' box 3. Responding to the tender - Click 'my response' under 'ITT details' and you can choose to 'create response' or to 'decline to respond' (please give a reason if declining) - You can now use the 'messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification - Note the deadline for completion and then follow the on screen instructions to complete the tender response. NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on: Sell2Wales at http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=140763 NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=147915 (WA Ref:147915)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml ↗
- Submission deadline
- 31 Mar 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en, cy
- Bids opened
- 31 Mar 2025, 12:00 BST
Timeline
21 Feb 2025 → 31 Mar 2025 · 3 dates- Notice published21 Feb 2025, 16:14 GMT
- Submission deadline31 Mar 2025, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened31 Mar 2025, 12:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.