Official UK procurement notice
Tender for the Supply and Provision of Clinical Trial Services- Packaging, Blinding, Labelling and Dispensing of Investigational Medicinal Product- Apixaban (Eliquis) and Placebo
Authority: THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University of Birmingham invites tenders for supply of investigational medicinal product matched placebo. The University requires the purchase of the drug Apixaban, provision of a matched placebo, repackaging, labelling, distribution and delivery of tablets for a blinded randomised control trial.
CPV: Laboratory services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£500,000
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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 (6)
- Compliance to the Specifications: 30%
- After Sales and Technical back up: 5%
- Delivery and Training: 10%
- Procurement Specific Questionnaire: 10%
- Overall Price: 35%
- Sustainability and Environmental: 10%
Published award criteria (6)
- Compliance to the Specifications
- After Sales and Technical back up
- Delivery and Training
- Sustainability and Environmental
- Overall Price
- Procurement Specific Questionnaire
- Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
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
- Closed
- 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
- 25 Apr 2025, 13:29 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Apr 2025, 13:29 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 6 Jun 2025
- Authority reference
SC13798-25- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-017027- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0507a0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 25 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
If you are enquiring about current tenders, please go to in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham/ ↗ and follow the instructions.
Timeline
25 Apr 2025 → 1 Sept 2025 · 4 dates- Tender notice published25 Apr 2025, 13:29 BST
- Submission deadline25 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by6 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published25 Apr 2025, 13:29 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender