Official UK procurement notice
Hepatitis C Medicines · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis tender is for the provision of antiviral medicines for the treatment of Hepatitis C (HCV) to NHS Wales.
CPV: Pharmaceutical products
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 May 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£6,549,650
- Economic & financial standing
As per the tender documents
- Technical & professional ability
As per the tender documents
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).
- Product Quality/Acceptability: Pass/Fail
- Financial (Overall Cost of Contract): Weighting: 85
- Environmental/Social Value/Community Benefits : Weighting: 15
- Economic & financial standing
As per the tender documents
- Technical & professional ability
As per the tender documents
- “Hepatitis C Medicines” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Cardiff and Vale University Health Board buys Pharmaceutical products (CPV 3360), and who usually turns up
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Pharmaceutical products (CPV 3360) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 61 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–30% / 0%
4–629% / 75%
7+71% / 25%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 3360Published estimate£6.5m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–314%
4–655%
7+30%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
Pfizer LtdLarge | £28m44 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 18 live · £28m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
Gilead Sciences LtdLarge | £24m11 awards in 36m · last this month | 5 live · £21m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
| £3.9m41 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 13 live · £3.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 | |
Abbvie LtdLarge | £8.2m18 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 9 live · £8.2m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
| £2.3m15 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 8 live · £939k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Mar 2026, 16:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 26 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
PHA-FTS-63590- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094856- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066b74Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via Sell2Wales- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
16 Mar 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published220 days ago16 Mar 2026, 16:14 GMT
- Market engagement34 days ago18 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
This notice is being issued to advise suppliers of a forthcoming opportunity that is due to be published by Velindre NHS Trust, NHS Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services (on behalf of All Wales Health Boards and Trusts).
There is no formal engagement process for this opportunity. Any suppliers who may like more information on this opportunity before the tender is published please contact Ryan Zobole ([email protected]).
- Next notice expected21 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published15 days ago7 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 11 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 15 days · period end, not a bid countdown6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 127 days26 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 190 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Mar 2026- Pipeline notice published16 Mar 2026, 16:14 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Sept 2026, 17:36 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published7 Oct 2026, 15:16 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £6,549,6507 Oct 2026, 15:16 BSTwas £13,454,112
- Status changed to active7 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Deadline published: 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT7 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Buyer details updated7 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Contracting authorityPublic authority - central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender