ISO 15189 (medical laboratories)
Standards you certify to · awarded by UKAS · serves: Pathology quality advisers
- Notices demanding it
- 53
- a floor
- Said “must”
- 16
- explicit obligation
- Open right now
- 0
- Value gated
- £77m
- a floor
Published values on the notices that demand it — a floor, not a total.
The demand curve
Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.
The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.
The receipts
Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.
- Fully Automated Coagulation Analysermandatory
Velindre University NHS Trust
The system must demonstrate proven usage in ISO15189 laboratories, with EQAS performance included as part of the assurance framework.
NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT
The Forensic Science Regulator has established a new Code of Practice which mandates that all SARC sites must achieve UKAS accreditation (ISO 15189).
NHS England
The Forensic Science Regulator has established a new Code of Practice which mandates that all SARC sites must achieve UKAS accreditation (ISO 15189).
Ministry of Defence
The system must be configured to comply with national guidelines pertaining to safe blood transfusion practice (BSQR 8th edn.), whilst maintaining appropriate functionality such that it complies with the guidelines established by best practice for pathology services (ISO 15189).
Medicines Discovery Catapult
The LIMS must be able to process a range of sample types (for details see the Specification Appendix 2) and meet the requirements of ISO15189.
HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust ("UHCW")
The Service Provider, and all sub-contractors, must operate in line with all appropriate guidelines and accreditations, including ISO 15189.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
The system must be compliant with requirements for ISO15189:2012 and have the ability to be used in a clinical diagnostic setting.
Public Health England
The equipment and services being offered must support ISO 15189: 2012 under which PHE is operating.
NOE-CPC
The system must enable the department to meet all of the standards required for UKAS accreditation under ISO15189.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The solution must support ISO 15189:2012 requirements.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
The solution will also support ISO accreditation (ISO 20387 for biobanking and ISO 15189 for diagnostic laboratories)
General Pharmaceutical Council
ISO 15189 accreditation, or appropriate medical laboratory quality and competence policies and procedures in place, which are compliant with ISO 15189 standards.
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Get set up free →Method: Every count here is a floor. We match the text of the notice, and a notice description is a summary — most tender packs demand things it never mentions.“Said must” counts only explicit obligation language in the matched sentence itself; anything ambiguous is counted as a mention, never as mandatory. Trend compares rates per 10,000 notices per complete calendar year.