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Published 9 Sept 2026, 10:32 BST
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Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06819 - Life Technologies Limited - Cancer Service Panel

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
NHS & Healthcare
Below threshold - without competition
No classification published
West Midlands (UKG)
Published value
Not published
Contract value exc. VAT
Submission deadline
Open opportunity
complete
Lots published
1
Lots published in procedure
Contract duration
Below threshold - without competition
Published delivery schedule
Electronic Sourcing Gateway:
Published portal

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification
Tenderline summary generated from the published notice
Executive Summary: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust: "Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06819 - Life Technologies Limited - Cancer Service Panel". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Official Requirement Description:
This service relates to the cancer service panel for HRD provided by Life Technologies Limited (ThermoFisher Scientific

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period:
    Not published
    Eligibility:
    Not published

Qualification snapshot & criteria

Go / No-Go Decision Box
Criteria & entry requirements
Evaluation weighting
Award criteria weighting not published in structured data — consult the tender pack documents.
Incumbent & Market Position
Top Retained Vendor (Authority Spend)Life Technologies Limited (ThermoFisher Scientific)Holds 10.1% of historical attributable spend
Low Concentration
Entry requirements & qualification
  • Turnover Benchmark
    Guideline requirement: ~2× annual contract value annual turnover.Per Cabinet Office EFS 2026 & Sourcing Playbook: general proportionality cap (~2× run-rate), not an automatic disqualifier.
  • Insurance Commitments (No Upfront Purchase Needed)
    Standard public thresholds: Employer Liability (£5m), Public Liability (£5m-£10m), Professional Indemnity (£1m-£5m).✓ Commitment required upon award only — no upfront policy purchase needed to bid
  • Accreditations & Security Vetting
    Check tender pack for Cyber Essentials Plus (PPN 014 risk-proportional), ISO 27001/9001, and BPSS / SC security clearance requirements for named delivery personnel.
    • Source: Cabinet Office Sourcing Playbook & EFS Guidance.

    Buyer track record & authority intelligence: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

    Rolling 24 months
    Derived from OCDS data
    Published track record for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. These figures describe rolling 24 months, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
    Avg price drop
    Not availableEarly / insufficient sample
    Requires 5 comparable published awards
    Competition Density
    Not availableNo published reports
    Single-bidder rate: Not published
    Supplier Concentration
    Low Concentration
    Life Technologies Limited (ThermoFisher Scientific)Top vendor: 10.1% of attributable value
    Published spend
    £4,465,437Historical spend
    Cumulative GBP spend across 82 retained awards
    Methodology & coverage notes (82 active published awards)
    Coverage: 82 active published awards; 0 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.
    Historical Awarded Suppliers in this Category (CPV 33):
    Supplier Name
    Historic Awards
    Attributable Value
    Avg. Price Discount
    Life Technologies Limited (ThermoFisher Scientific)4 wins£452,981No published budget
    Integrated DNA Technologies1 win£395,614No published budget
    Edge Medical Ltd7 wins£368,284No published budget
    CYGNET HEALTH CARE LIMITED2 wins£355,697No published budget
    Roche Diagnostics Limited7 wins£227,075No published budget

    Sector Market Benchmark & Opportunity Radar

    CPV 33 · UK Sector Analysis
    Observed CPV-sector evidence
    Prepared 9 Sept 2026, 12:05 BST
    Observed CPV-sector evidence where it exists, with clearly labelled UK all-sector context for sparse fields; this is market context, not a bid forecast.
    Median Winning Discount
    0.535%
    CPV sector evidence · 58 comparable price observations
    Typical Bids Received
    2reported bids
    CPV sector evidence · 2,379 published bid reports
    Decision Velocity
    ~86 days
    CPV sector evidence · median from 69 completed procedures
    Notice Stability
    Stable notice
    Published terms remained unchanged
    Top Contenders in this Sector (CPV 33)
    Active commercial suppliers winning public contracts in this field
    Supplier
    Awards won
    Total awarded value
    Avg. winning discount
    Medtronic Limited
    		144 contracts£5,500,000At ceiling / not disclosed
    B. Braun Medical Limited
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    Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd
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    NORTHERN HOSPITAL SUPPLIES LTD
    		95 contracts£2,297,530At ceiling / not disclosed
    TJ Smith and Nephew Ltd (Trading as Smith & Nephew)
    		83 contracts£16,335,925At ceiling / not disclosed
    Baxter Healthcare Ltd
    		83 contractsNot disclosedAt ceiling / not disclosed
    Becton Dickinson U.K. Limited
    		81 contracts£3,659,645At ceiling / not disclosed
    Fannin Limited
    		80 contracts£13,194,974At ceiling / not disclosed
    Vernacare International Limited
    		75 contracts£5,779,136At ceiling / not disclosed
    SISK HEALTHCARE UK LTD t/a Cardiac Services
    		62 contractsNot disclosedAt ceiling / not disclosed
    Comparable Published Opportunities & Re-tender Precedents
    Historic records ranked from matching published evidence. They serve as research precedents for contract scoping, specifications, and previous awardees.
    No sufficiently evidenced comparable record has been calculated yet.
    Method: tender-intelligence-v1. Empirical OCDS facts and cross-sector percentiles; missing fields remain unrecorded.

    Procedure terms & legal framework

    Procedure methodBelow threshold - without competitionLegal basis
    UKPGA · 2023/54
    Procurement Act 2023
    		Procurement categoryServices
    Notice statuscompleteProcurement thresholdSub-thresholdRegulatory regimeStandard commercial regime
    Commercial structureStand-alone contract (No framework)Competition typeCompetitive procedureGPA WTO coveredUnspecified in notice
    Recurring procurementNo (One-off requirement)First published9 Sept 2026, 10:32 BSTLast source update9 Sept 2026, 10:32 BST
    Classification (CPV)Unspecified in notice
    Delivery areaLocation not published
    Official Registry OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06f54e
    Timeline
    1. Procedure published
      9 Sept 2026, 10:32 BST
    2. Award active
      Not published · Not published
    3. Contract active
      Signed 23 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST · £45,727

    Commercial outcome and contract awards

    Awards (1)
    Life Technologies Limited (ThermoFisher Scientific)
    Not published · Not published · active · lots 1
    Contracts (1)
    Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06819 - Life Technologies Limited - Cancer Service Panel
    £45,727 · signed 23 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST · active
    Contract period: 24 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST — 21 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
    Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
    Notice history
    From official release and amendment events
    1. Official notice release published
      9 Sept 2026, 10:32 BST

    Buyer and organisations in this procedure

    Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

    Contracting authority
    NHS & Healthcare
    GB-PPON-PNXM-2771-CPCW
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    Official Documents & Specifications (1)

    Official links; attachments are not copied