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Tender for the Supply and Provision of Clinical Trial Services- Packaging, Blinding, Labelling and Dispensing of Investigational Medicinal Product- Apixaban (Eliquis) and Placebo

Laboratory services
North East (UKC)
North West (UKD)
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)
East Midlands (UKF)
Published value
£500,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: "Tender for the Supply and Provision of Clinical Trial Services- Packaging, Blinding, Labelling and Dispensing of Investigational Medicinal Product- Apixaban (Eliquis) and Placebo". Published status: planning. Published value: £500,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityTHE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAMScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£500,000
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Published history for THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
3.4Bids / Report
48.4% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 152 active published awards; 31 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityTHE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
Last source update25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationLaboratory services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)
North West (UKD)
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)
East Midlands (UKF)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0507a8
What is being bought
The University of Birmingham invites tenders for supply of investigational medicinal product matched placebo. The University requires the purchase of the drug Apixaban, provision of a matched placebo, repackaging, labelling, distribution and delivery of tablets for a blinded randomised control trial.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £500,000
    25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
  2. Procedure published
    25 Apr 2025, 13:44 BST
  3. engagement
    Not published · met
    The clinical trials team conducted a request for quotation process to scope out potential costs. Several quotes were received back and due to the overall estimated value a decision was made to conduct an open tender process.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Contracting authority GB-COH-RC000645
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  • THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
    buyer

    GB-COH: RC000645 · GB-PPON: PHCQ-3464-LVTM
    Edgbaston, Birmingham, UKG31, B15 2TT, GB
    procurement@bham.ac.uk
Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published