In-Vitro Diagnostics, Point of Care Testing & Pathology Services

Buyer
SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED
Value
£703,101,796
Closes
16 December 2026
Where
London
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

NHS Supply Chain plans to set up a large national framework, a pre-approved list of suppliers that NHS organisations can then buy from, for medical testing equipment, lab consumables, pathology software and outsourced lab services. The estimated total value is about £703 million, and it covers everything from testing machines and reagents to running whole hospital or community laboratories.

What the buyer wants

• Apply to join the framework under one or more of its three lots: managed pathology services, pathology software, or diagnostic testing solutions • Show you can supply laboratory equipment, instruments, reagents and consumables, or deliver end-to-end pathology and point of care testing services, with proven quality and capacity • Demonstrate accredited quality systems, data security, software interoperability with NHS systems, and the ability to support NHS sites and community diagnostic centres nationally

Lots

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

Most small businesses would be excluded by the scale of the contract, the requirement for national delivery capacity, and the need for UKAS-accredited laboratory operations or medical device regulatory approvals, none of which a small firm can typically meet on its own.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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