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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

BWC Karotyping and FISH Service PME

Forecast · PlanningNo open deadline

Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.

01/ The notice

Key facts

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Deadline (UK time)
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Published
19 Oct 2026
Region
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02/ The brief

What the notice says

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C&S GMS wish to implement an AI-assisted automated karyotyping solution across all sites, with capability to also deliver automated FISH analysis. The requirements documented are vendor agnostic and have been developed to inform the selection and implementation of a karyotyping / FISH solution.

Requirements

C&S GMS have prepared a supporting document to demonstrate the requirements of the karyotyping solution, but in summary the system must:

• Deliver automated slide scanning, automated cell selection and capture, and AI-assisted digital karyotyping capability across our laboratories,

• Enable integration with existing systems where possible – details of existing systems are in Appendix 1.

• Security and Compliance: Meet all relevant data security and privacy regulations.

• Allow for centralisation of “wet laboratory” work at 2 sites and distribution of images, allowing distributed analysis and reporting at all 3 sites plus remote working from home.

• FISH capability is also required, meeting specified performance expectations for both cell suspensions and FFPE slides including tissue-matching function, and ideally automated scanning.

• Data storage and retention capability

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

  • 48517000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

  1. 19 Oct 2026
    Planning notice

    Planning notice published 19 October 2026.

    Release 098573-2026

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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

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  • Only one release is held, so there is no change history.

06/ Questions

About this notice

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust published this notice.

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07/ Related

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Stage
planning · Planning
Last verified
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 07:11 BST
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