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title: "Medicinal Product Trial -Metformin"
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# Medicinal Product Trial -Metformin

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/medicinal-product-trial-metformin-ocds-h6vhtk-0557aa). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust: "Medicinal Product Trial -Metformin". Published status: complete. Published Value: £248,333. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 5 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST. Published submission portal: health-family.force.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/pennine-care-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rt2)
- **Published Value:** £248,333 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 5 September 2025 at 23:59 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Design and execution of research and development
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £250,114 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 6 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/medicinal-product-trial-metformin-ocds-h6vhtk-0557aa#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0557aa`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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/medicinal-product-trial-metformin-ocds-h6vhtk-0557aa#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [health-family.force.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhealth-family.force.com%2Fs%2FWelcome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/medicinal-product-trial-metformin-ocds-h6vhtk-0557aa#participate

## Description
The trust was successful in obtaining a grant from NIHR for a clinical trial to look at the use of metformin in people newly diagnosed with psychosis. The clinical trial (including the recruitment phase) is estimated to take place between June 2026 to November 2028. As part of that grant we need to source a supplier that has the capability to purchase or manufacture Metformin and an identical placebo for a clinical trial, to package and label both to our requirements and distribute to Trusts across the UK in a predetermined schedule

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 73300000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £248,333

- **Contract Period:** 16/10/2025 to 16/10/2028
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** Medicinal Product Metformin (pending)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust trading as "Huddersfield Pharmacy Specials"**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-159825`
  - Value: £250,114 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 02/10/2025

- **Award:** 2 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust trading as "Huddersfield Pharmacy Specials"**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-159825`
  - Value: £250,114 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Medicinal Product Metformin (active)
  - Signed Value: £250,114
  - Signed Date: 13/11/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F047763-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-11-25T18:37:44.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T22:17:51.401Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0557aa