Official UK procurement notice
VoWifi Mobility Communication System & Centralised Management Solution for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Procurement agent: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board·On behalf of: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are exploring market options for a VoWifi Mobility Communication System & Centralised Management Solution. This is a pre market exercise to learn what is available/possible within the market to help shape its strategy and route to market.
This is an information gathering exercise which will help inform a future procurement procedure. However, dependent upon the
responses the Health Board reserves the right not to progress the procurement.
It is possible that further expressions of interest are issued after the initial responses have been considered.
If you are interested in this procurement BCUHB have a number of documents that require completion. Please contact Emma Burns -
[email protected], Olivia Anderson- [email protected] & David Easton - [email protected] for access to these documents. Interested parties are asked to complete the documents and return it to
[email protected] - returns to be received by 12:00 Noon 7th Nov 2025.
CPV: Installation services (except software) · Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment · Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Cardiff and Vale University Health Board buys Radio, television, communication (CPV 32), and who usually turns up
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’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: Radio, television, communication (CPV 32) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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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 57 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.
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 bid61% / 18%
2–320% / 45%
4–614% / 27%
7+5% / 9%
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 estimate50% / 67%
Within ±2%27% / 25%
Above estimate23% / 8%
Assess each lot i
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 #1Published estimate£250k
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–345%
4–627%
7+9%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Ortho Clinical DiagnosticsEarlier contract | T.0340 Blood Transfusion Automation Managed Service Contract for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Boardstarted Dec 2026 | T.0340 Blood Transfusion Automation Managed Service Contract | £3.6m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
41% title match.
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.
41% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (41% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
T.0340 Blood Transfusion Automation Managed Service Contract for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board — held by Ortho Clinical Diagnostics; no contract end date published.
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
- 24 Oct 2025, 23:18 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Oct 2025, 23:18 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068367- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d3c1Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Oct 2025 → 1 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published362 days ago24 Oct 2025, 23:18 BST
- Market engagement348 days ago7 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
This is an information gathering exercise which will help inform a future procurement procedure. However, dependent upon the
responses the Health Board reserves the right not to progress the procurement.
It is possible that further expressions of interest are issued after the initial responses have been considered.
If you are interested in this procurement BCUHB have a number of documents that require completion. Please contact Emma Burns -
[email protected], Olivia Anderson- [email protected] & David Easton - [email protected] for access to these documents. Interested parties are asked to complete the documents and return it to
[email protected] - returns to be received by 12:00 Noon 7th Nov 2025.
- Tender notice expected338 days ago17 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts294 days ago1 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Oct 2025, 23:18 BSTUK2
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
3 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Beneficiary authority
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Procuring entityProcurement Lead
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