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title: "Unlicensed and Specials Medicines"
url: "https://tenderline.uk/tenders/unlicensed-and-specials-medicines-ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd"
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# Unlicensed and Specials Medicines

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/unlicensed-and-specials-medicines-ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service: "Unlicensed and Specials Medicines". Published status: planning. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNING (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/regional-business-services-organisation-procurement-and-logi-GB-PPON-PWNJ-1991-NGDW)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Pharmaceutical products, Pharmacy services
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/unlicensed-and-specials-medicines-ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/unlicensed-and-specials-medicines-ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd#tl-md)

## Description
Health and Social Care Trusts (HSC) in Northern Ireland plan to tender for Unlicensed Medicines and Specials later this year. 
In order to assist with the development of a service specification and an appropriate methodology for the assessment of tenders, we are keen to engage with suppliers who would be willing to provide unlicensed and, or specials medicines to Health Trusts in Northern Ireland. The purpose of the engagement is to aid our understanding of current market conditions and capacity. The HSC intend to establish a multi-supplier framework which will cater for four categories of medicines:
1.	 Aseptically prepared unlicensed medicines,
2.	 Imported specials,
3.	 Non-aseptic specials,
4.	 Over-labelled medicines.
We hope that the Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) will help encourage supplier interest in this tender. It will also help us understand any barriers to tendering that suppliers currently face so these can be considered when drafting the HSC tender.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planning
- **CPV codes:** 33600000, 85149000

- **Contract Period:** 30/04/2026 to 30/04/2030

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F030294-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-06-05T13:38:50.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T10:37:02.614Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd