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NHS Blood and Transplant

Framework Agreement for the Supply, Maintenance & Consumables for Multi-Apheresis and ECP Systems

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33100000
Value£49.8m
Deadline17 Aug 2026
Published14 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 14 Jul 2026ClosedCloses 17 Aug 2026
Who to contact
Jo Murphy
jo.murphy@nhsbt.nhs.uk
01179212718

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Contract value in context
£49.8mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£53.8m

This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority and is responsible for the provision of blood components and a range of associated laboratory and patient therapeutic services to hospitals.

The NHSBT Therapeutic Apheresis Service (TAS) provide lifesaving and life-enhancing therapies to adults and children across a range of clinical specialties.

Patients receive treatment either at their hospital bedside or where clinically appropriate as an outpatient in an NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) unit.

NHSBT provides regional access to apheresis services from 10 dedicated units across England and Wales (Bristol, London, Oxford, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Plymouth, Cambridge and Liverpool) with each unit led by a team of specialist medical and nursing staff.

NHSBT are tendering for the establishment of an Open Framework for the purchase of therapeutic apheresis machines, consumables and maintenance, to support provision of new Therapeutic Apheresis Systems for Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP), Apheresis Collection, Exchange and Depletion Procedures (including Bone Marrow), and associated consumables and maintenance.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority and is responsible for the provision of blood components and a range of associated laboratory and patient therapeutic services to hospitals.

02

The NHSBT Therapeutic Apheresis Service (TAS) provide

The NHSBT Therapeutic Apheresis Service (TAS) provide lifesaving and life-enhancing therapies to adults and children across a range of clinical specialties.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
Framework Agreement for the Supply, Maintenance & Consumables for Multi-Apheresis and ECP Systems

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0560a1
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
066470-2026
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