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Aperlena

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 25 minutes ago Contract notice

Womens Health

41 days left

Key facts

Closes
10:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€4.1M
€4,131,256 · converted from GBP
Competition
Open race
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 41 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

40 days from publication to deadline

Longer than usual

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 24 and 34 days, based on 477 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 31 days (median of its last 16 calls for tender).

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The Aperlena Verdict

Open race

No supplier dominates: 9 different companies have won the last 9 comparable contracts from this buyer over 5 years. This is a genuinely open race.

Based on 9 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 summary

NHS Scotland seeks to establish a framework agreement for the supply of Womens Health Products, covering speculums, pessaries and cervical medical devices. The framework will serve all entities under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, including all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Authority, other NHS organisations, all joint integration boards established under the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, and all Scottish hospices. Products will be predominantly supplied via the National Distribution Site (NDS).

Description

Framework agreement for the provision of Womens Health Products (Speculums, Pessaries and Cervical Medical Devices) (‘Products’) on behalf of all entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS Organisations) and all joint integration boards established under the Public Bodies (joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014. All Scottish hospices. These products will be predominately supplied via the NDS (National Distribution Site)

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €4.1M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    41 days left, 30 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €61,380 and €297,592.

  6. In your favour:

    Do we know this buyer?

    9 different companies won the last 9 comparable contracts.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 25 minutes ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 231 awards for Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals in United Kingdom.

This notice
€4.1M
Median award
€122,714
Middle half of past awards
€61,380 to €297,592

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as Public Services Delivery Scotland) (PSD Scotland)

United Kingdom

notices in the register
96
awards
62
awarded in total
€10.4M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
45
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
26%
of its calls state an estimated value
63%

Based on 61 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.

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

Based on 9 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

6 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 89% of the open notices in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals across Europe.

open now in Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals
10,903
median open notice
€143,339

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Medical equipment & pharmaceuticals

different companies won awards here
206
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
13%
buyers awarded contracts here
99

Based on 292 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.

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