Awarded· 24 Jul 2025
Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing
NHS Blood and Transplant · South Gloucestershire, South West
NHS Blood and Transplant has awarded Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing. It is a contract for other health and social care in South Gloucestershire.
Source: Find a Tender, published 25 Jul 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Ibg Immucor
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 09:42
View notice
About this tender
In brief
NHS Blood and Transplant has awarded Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing. It is a contract for other health and social care in South Gloucestershire. The contract went to Ibg Immucor. It was awarded on 24 July 2025. The contract value is £6,240,000.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 25 July 2025. The notice number is 043039-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-056614.
Summary of the contracting process
The procurement process, conducted by NHS Blood and Transplant, focused on the provision of secondary blood grouping and sickle cell testing services. The contract, titled "Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing," falls under the blood analysis services category and was intended to supply automated blood group testing equipment for multiple uses, including antibody screening and sickle cell trait screening.
The request for procurement followed a limited method due to the lack of suitable tenders in an open procedure, with an award made to IBG Immucor Ltd on 25th July 2025. The procurement was classified as a managed service contract, with a total contract value of £6,240,000 for services across the UK.
Although the contract was awarded without a competitive tender process, it highlights the demand for innovative and efficient diagnostic equipment in the public health sector.
The notice in full
Managed Service Contract for the Provision of Secondary Blood Grouping & Sickle Cell Testing
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
NHSBT will award a Managed Service Contract for the supply of commercially available automated blood group testing equipment for use as a secondary testing technology for ABO and Rh D typing, antibody screening and identification, extended red cell phenotyping and HbAS (heterozygous sickle cell trait) screening for donor blood, tissues and stem cell (haemopoietic progenitor cells and therapeutic cells) samples.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Ibg Immucor
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- 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
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- Large
Values
- Contracts value
- £6,240,000
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 043039-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-056614
- CPV code
- 85111810 - Blood analysis services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Town
- Bristol
- Postcode
- BS34 7QH
- Electoral ward
- Filton
- Constituency
- Filton and Bradley Stoke
- Region
- South West
- Sub-region
- Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire
- Area
- West of England
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Blood and Transplant
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Jo Murphy
- Phone
- +44 1179212718
- Address
- Bristol, BS34 7QH · South West · England
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Ibg Immucor
- Awardee scale
- Large
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing
Who won the Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing contract?
NHS Blood and Transplant awarded the contract to Ibg Immucor on 24 July 2025.
How much is the Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing contract worth?
The contract value is £6,240,000.
Who is the buyer for Secondary Blood Grouping and Sickle Testing?
NHS Blood and Transplant, based in South Gloucestershire, South West. The named contact is Jo Murphy, on +44 1179212718.
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