Official UK procurement notice
SNBTS Blood & Tissue Establishment Computerised System
Authority: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS National Services Scotland Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service is exploring the options for the procurement of a computer system (or combination or systems that can be linked) to support a wide range of SNBTS functions from donor to patient.
CPV: Clinical information system · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Industry specific software package · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems · Programming services of packaged software products · Software package and information systems · Software programming and consultancy services · Systems and technical consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) is the specialist provider of…Planned
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) is the specialist provider of safe high quality blood, tissues and cells products and services in Scotland. The key priority is to ensure that NHSScotland continues to have enough blood to meet the transfusion needs of patients in Scotland. To make sure that blood, tissues and cells are always available when patients need them.
SNBTS has a requirement to tender for the provision of a computerised system to support both blood and tissue establishment functions (donor and blood stocks manufacture & management), as well as clinical-facing functions including patient-based hospital transfusion and H&I services. The existing solution has been in use for some time and now requires replacement to meet current and future needs.
SNBTS is the sole provider of blood, blood components and tissue to NHS Scotland. SNBTS is located around Scotland with donor blood collection and clinical facing transfusion laboratories/blood bank facilities in Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh, with a single processing and manufacturing facility also in Edinburgh, a blood establishment component issue/distribution site in Glasgow and an H&I laboratory, supporting clinical solid organ transplant, disease association and HLA/HPA Platelet matching functions located in Edinburgh also.
SNBTS has used a computerised system for more than a decade.
Current system users are based within the SNBTS regional facilities as well as within several Hospital facilities around Scotland including NHS Highlands, Grampian, Lothian and Tayside. Other non SNBTS users who utilise full hospital transfusion laboratory functions on our current computer system, are located within NHS Shetland, NHS Orkney, NHS Western Isles, NHS Grampian, NHS Tayside and NHS Highland. In addition, blood collections sessions are held throughout Scotland many in remote and rural areas.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up
The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS)’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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 8% against 37%, n=36.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 50 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid43% / 10%
2–329% / 30%
4–624% / 28%
7+5% / 32%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate57% / 69%
Within ±2%14% / 22%
Above estimate29% / 10%
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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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Lot #1The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) is the specialist provider of…CPV 72Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–330%
4–628%
7+32%
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Where the award price may land.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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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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
- 27 Aug 2025, 09:33 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Aug 2025, 09:33 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-051446- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Aug 2025 → 30 Aug 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published27 Aug 2025, 09:33 BST
- Tender notice expected56 days ago30 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Official documents & specifications
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