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Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing (OPD) Services

Buyer: Barts Health NHS Trust →

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BuyerBarts Health NHS Trust
StatusClosed
Deadline18 May 2026
Value£6,000,000
Published12 Apr 2026

What is being bought

The Authority is seeking a managed service provider to deliver outpatient pharmacy services at Barts Health NHS Trust.

Delivery location

UKI4, GB

Categories

Pharmaceutical products 33600000Pharmacy services 85149000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£6,000,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Nov 2026 to 31 Oct 2031

Award criteria
Commercial — Dispensing unit prices - (40% weighting) (40%)
Social Value — Social Value (10%)
Technical Questionnaire — Technical Questionnaire 50% consisting of: Quality Assurance and Governance 20% Service Implementation 20% Patient Choice 5% BCP -Major incidents and Business Continuity 5% (50%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Pharmacy services, Pharmaceutical productsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 33. The category anchor is Pharmaceutical products (33600000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 331,4431.5 median · 85.3 average (414 of 1,443 with a bid count)6.9 average (469 of 1,443 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI43Not published1 average (1 of 3 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)14229 median · 42.8 average (4 of 142 with a bid count)6.8 average (4 of 142 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyallowed
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.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0658b4
Latest release ID033023-2026
Latest release timestampSun Apr 12 2026 21:45:32 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/033023-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-05-18T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-04-13T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-08-01T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://atamis-1928.my.site.com/login?locale=uk
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£6,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source4
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
12 Apr 2026tender033023-2026
19 Feb 2026planning015471-2026

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
12 Apr 2026 · 033023-2026 · tender
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19 Feb 2026 · 015471-2026 · planning
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