Open tenders / Medical supplies & equipment
Open tender · Notice 090292-2026
Supply of Sample Tubes
NHS Blood and Transplant
- Value
- £2.9m
- Closes
- 26 Oct 2026 (32 days)
- Where
- UK-wide
- Lots
- 1
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes, says the buyer
- Contract
- 1 Mar 2027 – 29 Feb 2032
In plain English
NHS Blood and Transplant wants a supplier to provide blood sample tubes (mainly 6mL K2 EDTA vacuum tubes with colour-coded caps, plus some 4mL and K3 EDTA types) for its two testing sites in England, which test around 1.5 million donations a year. The contract runs five years, from 1 March 2027 to 29 February 2032, with an estimated value of £2.9m.
Good fit for: Manufacturers and distributors of medical/diagnostic consumables, particularly blood collection tubes.
Watch out: Single lot covering the whole five-year national requirement, so you must be able to supply at very high volume; Tubes must be evacuation type with colour-coded caps and a blank manufacturer's label that a barcode can be stuck over
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What the buyer says
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority in England, with responsibilities across the United Kingdom for organ donation and transplantation. Our core purpose is to ‘save and improve lives’ through the provision of a safe and reliable supply of blood components, solid organs, stem cells, tissues and related services to the NHS, and to the other UK Health Services where directed. Testing function in the Blood Supply Directorate performs a wide range of testing services, these include but are not limited to the large-scale blood grouping and microbiological screening of blood and tissue donations. The Authority has two testing sites in England, in which approximately 1.5 million donations are tested each year. Each donation bled requires a minimum of 3 x 6mL sample tubes to be taken into K2 EDTA tubes which have colour coded caps for identification purposes. Some donors also require additional tubes these include but are not limited to 4mL EDTA and K3 EDTA tubes. Tubes are of the evacuation type and the Authority requires a unique bar-code label to be affixed at bed side over a blank manufacturers label.
Procedure: Open procedure. Published 23 Sep 2026.
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