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title: "Glucose/Ketone EQA Vials"
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# Glucose/Ketone EQA Vials

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/glucose-ketone-eqa-vials-ocds-h6vhtk-029163). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership: "Glucose/Ketone EQA Vials". Published status: complete. Published Value: £508,800. 4 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 10 Mar 2021, 14:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership-GB-FTS-86687)
- **Published Value:** £508,800 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 10 March 2021 at 14:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 4
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Bottles
- **Delivery Location:** UKL, UKL22
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £700,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/glucose-ketone-eqa-vials-ocds-h6vhtk-029163#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-029163`

## Before you bid
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- **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/glucose-ketone-eqa-vials-ocds-h6vhtk-029163#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/glucose-ketone-eqa-vials-ocds-h6vhtk-029163#participate

## Description
The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Weqas who operates as an independent organisation, hosted by Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board. Weqas were seeking to establish a contract for Glucose/Ketone EQA Vials (previously known as Dropper Bottles).
Weqas is one of the largest External Quality Assessment providers in the UK, with over 50 years of experience in delivering global Quality Assurance Programmes in Laboratory Medicine.
Weqas operates at Unit 6, Parc Ty Glas, Cardiff.
The majority of Weqas' EQA material is manufactured in-house, and the items sought below are necessary for the production of the Glucose & Ketone EQA material. These products are utilised in a semi automated dispensing system, therefore, there are specific requirements to enable them to be used with this system, as stated in each indivdual lot specification within the tender documents.
Item 1 – LDPE Dropper Bottle Cylinder Round Natural
Item 2 – Extended Control Dropper Tip LDPE Natural
Item 3 – Dropper Tip Cap (any colour)

## Lots (4)
### Lot 1: Supply Only of Dropper Bottles
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 39225710
- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** This contract is for the provision of Glucose and Ketone EQA material supplied in dropper bottles.

### Lot 2: Supply and Fill of Dropper bottles and Material (provided by Weqas)
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 39225710
- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** This lot is for the supply and fill of Dropper bottles with the material provided by Weqas.

### Lot 3: Dropper bottle supply and filling with material provided by Weqas, plus labelling of finished product
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 39225710
- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** This contract is for the Dropper bottle supply, filling with material provided by Weqas and labelling of finished product.

### Lot 4: Provision of Glucose & Ketone EQA material supplied in dropper bottles
- **Lot id:** `4`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 39225710
- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** This contract is for the provision of Glucose and Ketone EQA material supplied in dropper bottles.

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 025810-2021-CAV-OJEU-PROJECT46483-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Eurotrol B.V.**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-31712`
  - Value: £700,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 025810-2021-CAV-OJEU-PROJECT46483-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £700,000
  - Signed Date: 14/10/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025810-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-10-15T10:25:02.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T04:45:26.383Z
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