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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

NHS Blood and Transplant

Managed Service Contract for the Bacterial Screening of Platelets

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Value£47.1m
Awarded29 Mar 2023
Published5 Dec 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£47.1mtotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£50.9m

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

A fully integrated, high throughput, automated bacterial screening system which can detect bacterial contamination in platelet components.

The system will be used in Filton (Bristol), Manchester and Colindale (London) where approximately 270,000 adult therapeutic doses of platelets are manufactured each year.

Key requirements

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A fully integrated, high throughput, automated bacterial

A fully integrated, high throughput, automated bacterial screening system which can detect bacterial contamination in platelet components.

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