Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 16 Jun 2025, 12:18 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Call for sponsorship - UK-Africa Workshop

Official notice

Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)

Goods
Sectors: Medical Devices & Pharma (33) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term Ends 30 Jun 2025starts 16 Jun 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking sponsors to deliver a high-level 2-day UK-Africa workshop in October/November 2025. This event aims to position the UK as a trusted partner in Africa’s expanding health industries and advance commercial opportunities for UK industries in vaccine production in Africa. This private event will convene senior UK and African policymakers, healthcare leaders, and industry stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and drive forward shared priorities in vaccine production and related health manufacturing capabilities. The event forms part of the UK Government’s commitment to supporting Africa’s growing health industries while advancing commercial opportunities for UK businesses in the sector.

CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Vaccines

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
16 Jun 2025, 12:18 BST
Last source update
16 Jun 2025, 12:18 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-032556
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care productsVaccines
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05492e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 Jun 2025 → 30 Jun 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Contract starts
    16 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
  2. Planning notice published
    16 Jun 2025, 12:18 BST
  3. Market engagement
    30 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST

    The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking sponsors to deliver a high-level 2-day UK-Africa workshop in October/November 2025. This event aims to position the UK as a trusted partner in Africa’s expanding health industries and advance commercial opportunities for UK industries in vaccine production in Africa. This private event will convene senior UK and African policymakers, healthcare leaders, and industry stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and drive forward shared priorities in vaccine production and related health manufacturing capabilities. The event forms part of the UK Government’s commitment to supporting Africa’s growing health industries while advancing commercial opportunities for UK businesses in the sector. A range of opportunities are available, including but not limited to content, programme partnerships, speaking and network opportunities, offering an exceptional platform for UK pharmaceutical companies to: - Access a high-profile platform to raise your brand reputation and awareness. - Have the opportunity to engage a high-profile audience, interacting and networking with senior government representatives and decision makers from both the UK and African health sectors. - with the strategic priorities of UK HMG, and position your company as an industry leader. - Access a gateway to African markets, facilitating connections and opportunities for commercial partnerships, deals and investment. - Contribute to the conversation on strategies to strengthening Africa’s manufacturing capacity to improve its health systems, access to medical products, and global supply chain resilience. Audience UK pharmaceuticals companies involved in vaccine production and related health manufacturing capabilities, including those interested in technology transfer, medical supply chains, manufacturing and research. Any UK company wanting to explore these opportunities should respond via the MS Forms below by mid-day Monday 30 June 2025. forms.office.com/e/cePQBiDLEq ↗ If deemed suitable, we will be in contact with your organisation using the email address provided to discuss next steps. Prospective sponsors will undergo due diligence checks from the Department of Health and Social Care to comply with robust UK Government standards. Since this is neither a call for competition nor a procurement, it's been assigned a nominal monetary value of £1. The deadline for responses is 12pm on Monday, 30th June 2025. Please contact ming.luo@dhsc.gov.uk if you have any questions about this opportunity.

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Jun 2025, 12:18 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

DHSC, London

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PMQG-9965-CHZR 39 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1H 0EUContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

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