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GSTT - Microbiological Services

Buyer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust →

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BuyerGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
StatusAwarded
Deadline8 May 2026
Value£1,300,000
Published28 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Environment media testing services: We send to external labs the Broth, media plates etc. to test to ensure that our units are operating within the permissible parameters and we have no serious contamination or microbiological growth. The service of this lab is to validate or confirm the viability of the media purchased from supplier for Microbiological testing media

Lot details

Lot Lots 1

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Lot Lots 2

No lot description published.

Statuscomplete

Comparable-procurement analytics

No usable CPV category has been published, so a comparable market set cannot yet be built.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0678e4
Latest release ID071105-2026
Latest release timestampTue Jul 28 2026 09:53:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029565-2026
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
28 Jul 2026award, contract071105-2026
31 Mar 2026tender029565-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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31 Mar 2026 · 029565-2026 · tender
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