Awarded· 9 Sept 2025
Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-procurement Services (hosted By Velindre University NHS Trust) · Carmarthenshire, Wales
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-procurement Services (hosted By Velindre University NHS Trust) has awarded Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing. It is a contract for other health and social care in Carmarthenshire.
Source: Sell2Wales, published 12 Sep 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
2025
Award notice published
OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice · 00:00
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About this tender
In brief
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-procurement Services (hosted By Velindre University NHS Trust) has awarded Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing. It is a contract for other health and social care in Carmarthenshire. It was awarded on 9 September 2025. The contract value is £2,000,000. It is split across 2 lots.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Sell2Wales published it on 12 September 2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-kuma6s-155417.
Summary of the contracting process
The procurement process overseen by NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services, hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust, involves the award of a contract for Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing. Scheduled under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime- Wales 2025), the contract entails transport, processing, and reporting of wet tissue samples and digital images.
The procurement falls under the health industry category, specifically focusing on cellular pathology services within the Central Valleys region, UKL15. The process, currently in the award stage, followed a limited procurement method without prior publication, with a standstill period running from 15th to 29th September 2025.
Key awards have been made to Cyted UK Ltd and Source BioScience UK Limited (Source LDPath) for various specialities, with each contract valued at £2,000,000 and signed on 9th September 2025.
The notice in full
This notice marks the intention to award a contract for Cwm Taf Morgannwg under the Health Trust Europe (HTE) Diagnostic solutions, Lot 2 Pathology Reporting under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime- Wales 2025) Cellular Pathology Services to include transport, processing, and reporting of wet tissue samples and digital images
Lots (2)
- 01
Testing & reporting on Dermatology & Placenta SpecialitiesComplete
This notice is an intention to award a contract for Cwm Taf Morgannwg under the Health Trust Europe (HTE) Diagnostic solutions, Lot 2 Pathology Reporting under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime- Wales 2025) for continuation of Provision of outsourced Histopathology Reporting services to support increased demand and capacity shortfalls within Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB's Cellular Pathology department.
Services include transport, processing, and reporting of wet tissue samples and digital images across multiple specialties: Dermatology, Head & Neck, Gynaecology, Urology, Breast, General, Placenta, and Gastrointestinal. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015/Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period up to midnight 24th September 2025.
This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR Wales
- 02
Testing & reporting on Head & Neck, Gynaecology, Urology, Breast, General & Gastrointestinal SpecialitiesComplete
This notice is an intention to award a contract for Cwm Taf Morgannwg under the Health Trust Europe (HTE) Diagnostic solutions, Lot 2 Pathology Reporting under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime- Wales 2025) for continuation of Transport, processing, and reporting of wet tissue samples and digital images across multiple specialties: Head & Neck, Gynaecology, Urology, Breast, General and Gastrointestinal.
The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period up to midnight 24th August 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR Wales
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 2
- Number of suppliers
- 2
Procedure
- Notice type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Sell2Wales
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Buyer's portal
- Sell2Wales
Values
- Contracts value
- £2,000,000
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Complete
- Contracts
- Active
Not stated in the notice: awards.
References
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-kuma6s-155417
- CPV code
- 85111800 - Pathology services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Town
- Swansea
- Postcode
- SA31 3BB
- Electoral ward
- Carmarthen Town West
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin
- Delivery area
- Central Valleys
- Region
- Wales
- Sub-region
- South West Wales
- Area
- Mid and South West Wales
- Country
- Wales
Buyer
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-procurement Services (hosted By Velindre University NHS Trust)
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Alun James
- Phone
- +44 2921501500
- Address
- Carmarthen, SA31 3BB · Wales · Wales
Documents and links
- Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing - This notice marks the intention to award a contract for Cwm…sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx
- Nwssp.nhs.walesnwssp.nhs.wales/ourservices/procurement-services/
- Sell2Wales portal, to register and bidapi.sell2wales.gov.wales/v1
- Latest noticesell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx
- OCDS record ocds-kuma6s-155417 (JSON)find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-k…
Questions about Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing
Who won the Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing contract?
The award notice does not name the supplier. The full record is in the official notice linked on this page.
How much is the Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing contract worth?
The contract value is £2,000,000, split across 2 lots.
Who is the buyer for Histopathology Specimen Reporting Outsourcing?
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-procurement Services (hosted By Velindre University NHS Trust), based in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The named contact is Alun James, on +44 2921501500.
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