Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 22 May 2026, 15:41 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LSL/MED/0246 The Supply of Tranexamic Acid Auto-Injector (TXA AI)

Authority: LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED (Central government)·On behalf of: TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Medical Devices & Pharma (33) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£5,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 16 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 20 May 2031 · starts 21 May 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

LSL/MED/0246

Procurement description

Provide sufficient information to understand the scope of the procurement.

In April 2015 the MOD signed a thirteen year contract with Leidos Europe Ltd to provide the procurement and inventory management of commodity items (as well as the storage and distribution services) historically provided in-house by the Logistic Commodities and Services Operating Centre. Leidos, working with the MOD, will transform the way these services are delivered to ensure requirements continue to be met whilst providing best value for money for the department. The organisation delivering these services is known as Team Leidos.

Team Leidos would like to make markets aware that we are intending to investigate innovative approaches to fill our Supply of Tranexamic Acid Auto-Injector (TXA AI) requirements. We are actively seeking innovative, commercially viable solutions to meet this critical requirement. We invite industry partners to engage with us and bring forward novel approaches that can accelerate delivery, enhance operational effectiveness, and meet the evolving needs of Defence. We are interested in an Auto-Injector device containing 1g of Tranexamic Acid (TXA) in no greater than 3ml volume.

It is the aim of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PMEN) to encourage companies, suppliers, or manufacturers to make us aware and provide as much information as they are comfortable with, to help decide the future strategy for the range.

Team Leidos wishes to generate interest, information and views with other companies to understand the current market innovation and gain useful intelligence that can help our requirement.

To request the PMEN documents please contact:

Name and Email address [email protected]

In the email request the documents related the Supply of Tranexamic Acid Auto-Injector (TXA AI). The documents will then be sent for completion and should be returned to the same email addresses before the deadline. Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps, but the PMEN will remain open until 27/07/2026

The value of this framework is estimated to be between £4,000,000 - £5,000,000

CPV: Injectable solutions · Pharmaceutical products · Various medicinal products

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSME

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED buys Pharmaceutical products (CPV 3360), and who usually turns up

LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Pharmaceutical products (CPV 3360) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED · division 33
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 3360 · UK-wide, n=278
2 of 43%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 3360 · UK-wide, n=167
—33%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South West England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 20 decided notices · market: CPV 3360 · UK-wide, n=10
138 days62 days

Half of these awards were announced within 138 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 5 of 9 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3360 · UK-wide, n=158
56%67%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with bid counts · all categories
43% had one bid
The market34 lots with bid counts · CPV 3360 · UK-wide
18% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid43% / 18%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 34 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 34 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 15%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 34 lots with published bid counts.
7+43% / 38%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 34 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer2 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 33 · too few to chart
The market7 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3360 · UK-wide
43% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate43%
Market: 3 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%29%
Market: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29%
Market: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
2

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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 336048 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£5.0m
Expected competition
i

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. The bar shows 20 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet20% single-bid risk
Past bids on 20 similar lots
1 bid20%
4 of 20 similar past lots received 1 bid (20%).
2–375%
15 of 20 similar past lots received 2–3 (75%).
4–65%
1 of 20 similar past lots received 4–6 (5%).
7+0%
0 of 20 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £5.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 May 2026, 15:41 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 15:44 BST
Authority reference
LSL/MED/0246
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048143
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Injectable solutionsPharmaceutical productsVarious medicinal products
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a1ec Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

22 May 2026 → 21 May 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published151 days ago
    22 May 2026, 15:41 BST
  2. Market engagement85 days ago
    27 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    To request the PMEN documents please contact:

    Name and Email address [email protected]

    Request the documents related to the Supply of Tranexamic Acid Auto-Injector (TXA AI). The documents will then be sent for completion and should be returned to the same email addresses before the deadline. Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps, but the PMEN will remain open until 27/07/2026

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 28 days
    16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 212 days
    21 May 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 May 2026, 15:41 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 May 2026, 15:44 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
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 notice

LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-COH: 09353172 8 Monarch Court The Brooms, Bristol, South West, BS16 7FHContact name, email

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure