Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 5 Jun 2026, 15:38 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Pathology Testing Services for HFE Genes

Authority: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (Education)

Services
Planned pipeline value£65,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of Pathology Testing Services for HFE Genes including extraction for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB)

CPV: Blood analysis services · Health services · Pathology services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1BCUHB are looking to appoint a provider to undertake provision of Pathology Testing…Planned

BCUHB are looking to appoint a provider to undertake provision of Pathology Testing Services for HFE Genes and extraction, under The Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025.

Providers must express interest by means of emailing [email protected] by 5pm Friday 12th June 2026.

As part of the service the provider will be required to perform the extraction as well as the testing, and must have capacity to undertake immediately and ongoing for a 12 month period.

NWSSP Procurement Services in conjunction with the Health Board will then engage with providers who have expressed interest to determine if the most suitable provider can be identified.

Delivery: Wales

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board buys Hospital and related services (CPV 8511), and who usually turns up

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Hospital and related services (CPV 8511) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bidWhat 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: 168 of 181 known-size awards · market: CPV 8511 · Wales (Cymru), n=35
93%20%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 16 of 34 known-location awards · market: CPV 8511 · Wales (Cymru), n=34
47%24%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8511 · UK-wide, n=22
—75 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 75 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 35 of 45 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8511 · Wales (Cymru), n=52
78%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?

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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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer38 lots with bid counts · all categories
29% had one bid
The market20 lots with bid counts · CPV 8511 · Wales (Cymru)
75% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid29% / 75%
Buyer: 11 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
2–355% / 15%
Buyer: 21 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
4–616% / 5%
Buyer: 6 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 5%
Buyer: 0 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer23 lots with estimate and award · all categories
30% below estimate
The market34 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8511 · UK-wide
18% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate30% / 18%
Buyer: 7 of 23 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 34 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%26% / 50%
Buyer: 6 of 23 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 34 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate43% / 32%
Buyer: 10 of 23 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 34 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1BCUHB are looking to appoint a provider to undertake provision of Pathology Testing…CPV 8511Published estimate£65k
Expected competition
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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. The bar shows 20 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet75% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 20 similar lots
1 bid75%
15 of 20 similar past lots received 1 bid (75%).
2–315%
3 of 20 similar past lots received 2–3 (15%).
4–65%
1 of 20 similar past lots received 4–6 (5%).
7+5%
1 of 20 similar past lots received 7+ (5%).
Check who supplied similar work and whether the route limits bidders.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £65k, 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 · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 Jun 2026, 15:38 BST
Last source update
5 Jun 2026, 15:38 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053458
Classification (CPV)
Blood analysis servicesHealth servicesPathology services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06af03 Find a Tender

Publisher note: (WA Ref:166108)

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

5 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published141 days ago
    5 Jun 2026, 15:38 BST
  2. Tender notice expected115 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

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

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawHealth Headquarters Ysbyty Gwynedd, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, UK, LL57 2PWContact email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.