Official UK procurement notice
PHW-FTS-63130 Virology Managed Service Contract
Procurement agent: Public Health Wales NHS Trust·On behalf of: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPublic Health Wales requires the provision of specialist non-serology molecular laboratory managed service to support diagnostic, surveillance, and outbreak response functions. The service must deliver accurate, timely, and UKAS compliant molecular testing to support patient care, incident management, and national health protection programmes.
The objective of this tender is to secure a provider that can deliver:
- High quality automation for molecular diagnostics across three regions within the PHW Microbiology Network.
- Compatible assays for all of the equipment under this contract
- Open platform to allow for alternative assays /supplier kits if required and agreed
- Timely results to support clinical decision making
- Capacity for surge or outbreak situations
- Robust quality assurance and regulatory compliance
- Value for money, transparency, and operational reliability
The provider must provide evidence to support the following molecular targets.
a. Molecular targets
- PCR / RT PCR for respiratory viruses (e.g., Influenza A + B, RSV, SARS CoV 2)
- Sexual Health markers (Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma genitalium, Trichomonas vaginalis)
- Mycology PCR markers (including Aspergillus and Candida)
- Sample collection kits for relevant assays
- Potential for future additions of another compatible molecular assays.
- b. Specialist / Reference Services
- Genotyping or sequencing
- Support for outbreak investigations
Please note that cost and term information is only estimated and subject to change.
CPV: Immunoassay analysers · Pathology services · Services provided by medical laboratories
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Public Health Wales NHS Trust buys Hospital and related services (CPV 8511), and who usually turns up
Public Health Wales NHS Trust’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: Hospital and related services (CPV 8511) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 registered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 97 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid75%
2–315%
4–65%
7+5%
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.
Below estimate18%
Within ±2%50%
Above estimate32%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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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 3843Published estimate£4.9m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 23 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–335%
4–626%
7+26%
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITEDLive contract | Pathology Managed Service Contractruns to Dec 2031 | — | £29m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
57% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
57% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (57% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Pathology Managed Service Contract — held by ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED; the published contract ends 14 Dec 2031.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 21 May 2026, 10:33 BST
- Last source update
- 21 May 2026, 10:33 BST
- Authority reference
PHW-FTS-63130- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046858- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069e9dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 4 dates- Planning notice published155 days ago21 May 2026, 10:33 BST
- Market engagement140 days ago4 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Public Health Wales are looking to appoint a suitably qualified supplier to provide a fully comprehensive non-serology Virology Managed Service Contract.. We invite interested parties to express their interest in this procurement by email to [email protected] no later than 17:00 hrs Thursday 4th June 2026. We aim to hold pre tender engagement with interested parties virtually by using Microsoft Teams on 17th and 18th June 2026 to discuss requirement to help shape the specification further.
Interested parties will be provided allocated a slot on one of the two engagement days to attend a remote engagement session via Microsoft Teams. Bidders will be provided with a brief scope of service document and asked to prepare a brief presentation of how they could meet this requirement. There will then be time for a brief Question and Answer session.
- Tender notice expected51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2026, 10:33 BSTUK2
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
3 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Beneficiary authority
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Procuring entityProcurement Lead
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender