RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

University of Exeter

UOE/2015/042 Provision of over-encapsulated Sitagliptin (Januvia), Pioglitazone (Actos) and Cangliflozin(Invokana) for double-blind randomised/clin trials.

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33690000 73120000 33680000 33600000
Value£529k
Awarded13 Sept 2015
Published28 Sept 2015
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£529ktotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University of Exeter is advertising a Call for Competition in seeking a suitable and capable provider ofinvestigational medicinal product for use by its Medical School as part of a diabetes clinical trial.

The Universityof Exeter Medical School is undertaking a MRC-funded study aiming to develop a stratified approach in Type2 diabetes that will result in more effective use of glucose lowering therapy.

The Trimaster trial, sponsored bythe Royal Devon ανδ Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E FT) is a randomised double-blind Cross-Over trial ofthree standard diabetes therapies, a DPP4 inhibitor, SGLT2 inhibitor and thiazolidinedione as third line therapyin 600 patients with type 2 diabetes.

It aims to directly test potential stratification by comparing a patient's response (in terms of glycaemia, weight change, hypoglycaemia and patient reported outcomes) to these 3glucose-lowering treatments.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at University of Exeter, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Source & provenance
OCID
5632c031-9ed9-4738-bedd-7cdf72da590e
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
BIP161749513
View the original notice on Contracts Finder

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

University of Exeter’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
Also open now

Similar open tenders

University Hospitals Birmingham Eyecare Voucher Provision

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Closes 7 Oct 2026Healthcare
£365kValue

UKRI-6105 Double Door Steam Autoclave

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

Closes 21 Sept 2026Medical Equipment & Pharma
£500kValue