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Market Engagement Opportunity - STI Self-Test Kits
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- Mon 19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice. The source records Mon 19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 5 Oct 2026
- Region
- North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking market engagement with suppliers capable of providing the assembling, supply, and distribution of postal self-test kits for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B.
The requirement includes the assembly, and supply of six self-sampling kit variants (three vaginal and three penile), incorporating urine, vaginal, rectal, oral, and blood sampling options. Suppliers will be expected to provide end-to-end services, including sourcing and management of kit components, printing and inclusion of patient-facing documentation, inventory and stock management, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and direct distribution of kits to service users through postal and delivery services.
This engagement will help inform the procurement approach and identify suppliers with the capability to deliver a high-quality, compliant, and scalable postal self-testing solution across UHB and its delivery partners.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 33000000 33100000 33140000 33141000
- 33141625
04/ History
Releases of this notice
0 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
No releases are held for this notice.
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The source does not state a usable value.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
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08/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- 722041c0-0cca-4887-91d2-c29541796824
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Stage
- preprocurement · Open
- Last verified
- Wed 7 Oct 2026, 01:00 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 01:06 BST
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