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Open raceNo supplier dominates: 4 different companies have won the last 4 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.
Based on 4 comparable awards by this buyer in this sector over 5 years. Every verdict is recorded before the outcome and graded against the award notice. How we score ourselves.
Summary
Machine-generated summaryThe Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Parma is procuring BD Vacutainer CPT Mononuclear Cell Preparation Tube with Sodium Citrate (IVD) tubes. The tubes are needed for the requirements of the hospital's Medical Genetics unit, which uses them for the isolation and preparation of mononuclear cells. The contract covers the supply of these in vitro diagnostic devices to the Parma university hospital.
Description
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- Direct award: the buyer chose the supplier without a call for bids.
- The notice is written in Italian.
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Official source
Source: Intercent-ER / SATER (Regione Emilia-Romagna)
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Last verified against Intercent-ER / SATER (Regione Emilia-Romagna) 37 minutes ago
Expected award price
- likely award for this notice, from its published estimate of €70,000
- €27,300 to €53,900
Comparable awards in this country and sector came in at a median of 56% of their published estimate, half of them between 39% and 77%, based on 1,120 awards of the last 3 years.
Each award is compared with the estimate of the same lots, framework agreements excluded. A published estimate may include options and renewals, so an award under it is not always a discount.
What this market pays
The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 2,000 awards for Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals in Italy.
- This notice
- €70,000
- Median award
- €337,023
- Middle half of past awards
- €12,875 to €1.3M
The estimate sits inside the usual range.
Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.
The buyer
Full buyer profileAZIENDA OSPEDALIERA-UNIVERSITARIA DI PARMA
- notices in the register
- 49
- awards
- 5
- awarded in total
- €930,000
Who wins its contracts
- of its calls state an estimated value
- 89%
One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.
Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector
| Company | Wins | Total awarded | Last win |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPT SURGISYSTEMS SRL | 1 | €630,000 | Sep 2025 |
| NUCLEAR LASER MEDICINE S.R.L. | 1 | €300,000 | Apr 2026 |
| EUROIMMUN ITALIA DIAGNOSTICA MEDICA - S.R.L. CON SIGLA EUROIMMUN ITALIA S.R.L. | 1 | Aug 2026 | |
| EUROIMMUN ITALIA DIAGNOSTICA MEDICA - S.R.L. CON SIGLA EUROIMMUN ITALIA S.R.L.; PANTEC SRL | 1 | Dec 2025 |
Based on 4 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.
6 open tenders right now
- FIRSTLINE AOU PARMA 1 day left
- Maintenance and supply of spare parts for various types of electromedical equipment at the AOU of Parma 3 days left
- TONALE AMBULANCE VEHICLE 4 days left
Market context
Larger than 29% of the open notices in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals across Europe.
- open now in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals
- 10,683
- median open notice
- €143,903
Who wins in this market
Many suppliersItaly · Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals
- different companies won awards here
- 1,690
- of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
- 2%
- winners of the last 12 months were new here
- 1,405 of 1,463
- buyers awarded contracts here
- 388
Based on 2,551 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners. New: no award from the same buyer or market in the two years before.
Competition
- tenders per lot on average (open and restricted procedures)
- 1.9
- of those lots received a single tender
- 38%
- of the awards went to companies based in another country
- 1%
- of the tenders came from another country
- 2%
As the official award notices state them, over the last 3 years. Tenders per lot count open and restricted procedures only: in a negotiated procedure or a direct award a single tender is the procedure itself. The country is the one the notice gives for the winner.
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