Official UK procurement notice
Supply of 10.5mL glass bottles and polypropylene screw caps
Authority: NHS Blood and Transplant (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupply of 10.5mL glass bottles and polypropylene screw caps - Open tender
CPV: Medical consumables
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Blood and Transplant buys Medical consumables (CPV 3314), and who usually turns up
NHS Blood and Transplant’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: Medical consumables (CPV 3314) →
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.
Here, local means registered 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 are registered outside South West England.
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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 17 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid50% / 11%
2–340% / 17%
4–610% / 23%
7+0% / 49%
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 estimate46% / 53%
Within ±2%23% / 26%
Above estimate31% / 21%
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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 3314Published estimate£200k
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–373%
4–69%
7+0%
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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.
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
- Goods
- 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
- 23 Dec 2025, 17:39 GMT
- Last source update
- 23 Dec 2025, 17:39 GMT
- Authority reference
C409637- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-086014- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05fcfcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 Dec 2025 → 1 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published303 days ago23 Dec 2025, 17:39 GMT
- Market engagement271 days ago23 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
Supply of 10.5mL glass bottles and polypropylene screw caps
NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) intends to undertake a procurement tender exercise for 10.5ml glass bottles and screw caps for dispensing of IVD Reagents.
NHSBT now wishes to commence a formal procurement process and is seeking to engage with suppliers prior to this tender process. This will aid identification of opportunities and gauge market interest for supply of these products.
The current contract ends in 22/12/2026.
The purpose of the 10.5mL bottles and screw caps is to hold red cell suspensions, plasma/serum products & solutions containing proteolytic enzymes for use in red cell immunohematology tests.
Some of the main technical requirements for the bottles and caps are as follows:
- The 10.5mL glass bottles must be made from type 1A glass
- The total bottle height must be approx. 38mm
- The body diameter of the bottle must be approx. 17mm
- The bottle supplier must provide compatible caps for the bottle type they supply.
- Caps must be made from polypropylene and supplied sterile
- Caps must be black or white
- Caps must be designed to prevent leakage and make/maintain a leak proof seal with the container
- The bottle supplier can propose more than one type of cap for consideration, but all caps must be compatible with the bottles
- The 10.5mL bottles and screw caps must be suitable for use on NHSBT’s fully automated dispensing and capping machines and be durable enough to resist shatter
It is NHSBT's intention to hold pre-procurement supplier engagement meetings the week of January 19th 2026 to January 23rd 2026. The meetings will be held remotely and the dates are to be confirmed. To enable NHSBT to finalise arrangements (e.g. send meeting details and agree time slots) for the meeting’s, interested organisations are required to send an expression of interest via email to Sahithi Bandi - [email protected] no later than 17:00 hrs (GMT) on 19th January 2026. This should include a list of your potential attendees and a brief overview (or a website link) of the Goods / Services which might be offered.
No business whatsoever is guaranteed under any resulting framework agreement or contract, and there is no guarantee that any framework agreement or contract will be put in place in relation to this notice. No compensation etc. will be paid if a tender or resulting framework agreement is withdrawn for any reason. Bidders should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.
It should be noted that this procurement exercise may allow other Health authorities to use any agreements awarded.
- Tender notice expected224 days ago11 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts21 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Dec 2025, 17:39 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
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