Official UK procurement notice
Soft Market Testing Radiopharmacy Services Joint Venture
Authority: Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is exploring options to expand its Radiopharmacy Services to improve access to diagnostics, innovative treatment and research in Southwest England.
Uniquely positioned on the M4/M5 corridor, the Trust has a state-of-the-art Pharmacy build intended to provide a comprehensive range of services including:
- Cytotoxics (191 sq ft): mainly production of systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) and clinical trials for Onc/Haem
- Monoclonal antibodies (180 sq ft): products for Biologics unit and chemo unit
- Radiopharmacy unit (279sq ft): supply for Nuclear medicine diagnostics & treatment
- Vacant clean room space originally intended for Gene Therapy (108 sq ft)
As part of this appraisal, the Trust is evaluating a range of potential delivery and funding models, including the possibility of a Joint Venture or other form of partnership with a private sector organisation.
The purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to gain insight into:
- The level of interest from suppliers and investors in collaborating with the Trust
- The range of commercial, technical and operational models available within the market
- Key risks, dependencies and potential mitigation approaches
- Options that best ensure service continuity
- Indicative timelines and delivery pathways
This exercise is being undertaken for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition or form part of any formal procurement process. The responses received will be used to inform the Trust’s approach and any potential future procurement activity.
Please note, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right not to proceed with the procurement once this Pre-Engagement stage has been finalised.
CPV: Pharmaceutical products · Pharmacy services · Radio-isotopes · Radioactive materials · Various medicinal products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 41 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 bid13%
2–340%
4–620%
7+27%
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 estimate44%
Within ±2%56%
Above estimate0%
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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.
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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 #1CPV 0934Estimate not published
This lot is listed as CPV 0934. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 15 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–320%
4–647%
7+33%
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
- 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- 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
- 28 May 2026, 09:17 BST
- Last source update
- 28 May 2026, 09:22 BST
- Authority reference
C449972- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-050047- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a701Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 May 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published153 days ago28 May 2026, 09:17 BST
- Market engagement119 days ago30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Engagement with interested suppliers will be conducted on a one-to-one basis during the week commencing 15th and 22nd June. This will include an invite to a face-to-face meeting, along with an opportunity to visit and tour the Aseptic Unit.
Interested parties are invited to express their interest via the Health service Family portal - atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
Please include a brief overview of your organisation, relevant experience and strategic ambition in Radiopharmaceutical supply services.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 64 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 May 2026, 09:17 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 May 2026, 09:22 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Adding of Portal link
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender