Official UK procurement notice
PHW-FTS-64080-Service, Maintenance and Calibration of Pipettes across Public Health Wales Sites
Procurement agent: Public Health Wales·On behalf of: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPublic Health Wales are looking for a highly qualified and experienced contractor to deliver comprehensive maintenance and repair services for Public Health Wales Infection Services. This includes the inspection, maintenance, repair and calibration of all pipettes used within PHW Infection Services. Public Health Wales Trust recognises the importance of the Welsh Language to the communities it serves. Consequently, responses to an invitation to quote or tender will be accepted in Welsh as well as English. However, please note that tender responses submitted only in Welsh will be translated by the Health Board into English before consideration. Those involved in translating the document will be barred from taking decisions on awarding tenders.
Full details outlining the scope of the works are contained within the eTender Wales invitation to Tender.
The tender will be awarded to the most economically advantageous tender based on 40% quality and 60% cost as detailed in the ITT document.
Please note that the tender closing date is 02/11/2026 at midday and any late submissions will not be considered.
The etenderwales bravosolutions ref:project_64080 and itt_127653. Please direct all queries relating to this tender via the messaging function of the Bravo portal.
More details can be found at etenderwales.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/toolkit/dashboa… ↗
CPV: Checking and testing apparatus · Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£250,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical: 40%
- Price: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Price
- Technical
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £166,515 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Public Health Wales buys Checking and testing apparatus (CPV 3850), and who usually turns up
Public Health Wales’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Checking and testing apparatus (CPV 3850) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17% / 13%
2–383% / 35%
4–60% / 26%
7+0% / 26%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate44%
Within ±2%22%
Above estimate33%
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Lot #1CPV 3850Published estimate£250k
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid21%
2–369%
4–68%
7+2%
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Where the award price may land.
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Based on 1 comparable award. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£193k–£250k
Estimate£250k
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £52m53 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 23 live · £1.8m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £14m13 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 4 live · £54k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 20% below n=3 | |
| £7.7m50 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 12 live · £2.5m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=12 | |
| £7.7m27 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 4 live · £123k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 16% below n=3 | |
| £4.7m19 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 2 live · £1.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 10% below n=3 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:28 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:28 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
PHW-FTS-64080- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092496- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ddcFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Sell2Wales- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en, cy
Timeline
30 Sept 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published26 days ago30 Sept 2026, 15:28 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 3 days29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 7 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 66 days1 Jan 2027
- Award decision expected byin 67 days1 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published30 Sept 2026, 15:28 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)Procuring entityNWSSP will manage the procurement of this requirement. Public Health Wales remains the final beneficiary and end-user utilizing the pipette maintenance, repair and calibration services across the laboratory's.
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender