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Official UK procurement notice
Notice: OUH - Blood Transfusion Analysers MS - Tender Notice
Authority: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: HealthTrust Europe LLP
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking to procure a managed service for the provision of a blood transfusion analyser solution with the supply of associated consumables, reagents, training and maintenance services across its hospital sites.
The scope of the managed service will be delivered across the John Radcliffe Hospital (Oxford) and Horton General Hospital (Banbury), supporting a 24/7, 365-day blood transfusion laboratory service.
The procurement will be awarded as a Managed Service Contract (MSC) and is planned to include, but not be limited to:
Supply, installation and commissioning of automated blood transfusion analysers
Provision of all reagents, consumables, controls and calibrators
Full repair, maintenance and technical support services
Integration with existing Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
Staff training, competency support and ongoing technical assistance
The solutions aim is to provide a resilient and high-availability service, including redundancy arrangements to ensure continuity of service in the event of equipment failure. There must be appropriate provision across the network to support both routine and urgent (STAT) testing.
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The procurement will be conducted in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award this as a single contract.
CPV: Analysers · Blood analysers · Blood analysis services · Blood-grouping reagents · Diagnostic systems · Pathology services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£1,650,000
- Value
- £1,650,000 exc. VAT · £1,980,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morePublished sub-criteria (4)
- Technical Weighting — 60
- Technical Weighting — 60
- Commercial Weighting — 40
- Commercial Weighting — 40
- Economic & financial standingAs per Attachment "OUH BT - ITT Guidance" and PSQ envelope requirements.
- Technical & professional abilityAs per Attachment "OUH BT - ITT Guidance" and PSQ envelope requirements.
- Economic & financial standingAs per Attachment "OUH BT - ITT Guidance" and PSQ envelope requirements.
- Technical & professional abilityAs per Attachment "OUH BT - ITT Guidance" and PSQ envelope requirements.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Detection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843) in South East England — and who usually turns up
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the South East England market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids.
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards report one bid by definition and are left out. Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
contract notices in 36 months: 2 in CPV 3843 · 2 in division 38 · 6 in all categories
South East England · Detection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843)
contract notices delivered in South East England in 36 months: 19 in CPV 3843 (12 contested) · 146 in division 38 (114 contested) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
moderate · n=3 Awards in South East England (CPV 3843, n=3 pairs) land a median 13% below. Too few pairs to turn into a pound figure with any confidence — read the percentage as a rough direction, not this notice’s estimate converted.
Who you are likely to meet
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sterilab Services SME | 3 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 60% |
| Fintiede Solutions Ltd SME | 4 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 57% |
| Associates of Cape Cod International Inc. | 3 class wins | 4 months ago | no comparable pairs | 56% |
| Immucor SME | 3 class wins | 27 months ago | no comparable pairs | 55% |
| Cerescom Limited SME | 2 class wins | this month | no comparable pairs | 53% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 3843 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per notice, every route). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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 for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
PR-5161- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bb95Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 30 Sept 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
8 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice published86 days ago24 Jun 2026, 08:17 BST
- Market engagement72 days ago8 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Engagement as part of this pre-market engagement (PME) will be undertaken through a combination of online meetings, in-person discussions, telephone discussions and written correspondence (including email), with organisations that are able to provide a Blood Transfusion analyser managed service. more…
The engagement exercise aims to establish a suitable procurement approach that meets the Contracting Authority's objectives. The engagement is exploratory in nature and is intended for information gathering purposes to inform the specification and to identify potential suppliers of the required services. In particular the PME seeks to: 1. Understand current and emerging solutions 2. Explore supplier capabilities and potential commercial models 3. Explore data requirements the contracting authority will need to provide 4. Support the development and refinement of the specification Interested parties please reach out to Eman Majid ([email protected]) at HealthTrust Europe to schedule an engagement meeting. - Next notice expected30 days ago19 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice publishedearlier today18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BST
- Clarification questions byin 12 days30 Sept 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 28 days16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 70 days27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 130 days27 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Jun 2026- Tender notice published18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BSTUK4
- Status changed to active18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BST
- Procurement method changed18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BST
- Deadline published: 16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST18 Sept 2026, 15:13 BST
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Jun 2026, 08:17 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- HealthTrust Europe LLPProcess contact pointProcuring entity
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender