Official UK procurement notice
UHB Immunology Managed Service
Authority: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionManaged service to support laboratory work in the Immunology department at UHB. The contract would provide an efficient and effective solution to minimise manual processes and, where possible, utilise automated solutions to future-proof the service for our users.
At the time of this notice the Immunology Manged Service would cover automated solutions to the following:
a. Allergy serology
o Fluorescent enzyme immunoassay to include:
i. Total and specific IgE
ii. Component allergy testing
iii. Tryptase
iv. Specific IgG / precipitins
b. Autoimmunity
o Indirect immunofluorescence
o Enzyme immunoassay / ELISA
o Immunoblot
c. Cellular Immunology / Immunodeficiency
o Flow cytometry (including single & dual platform)
o ELISA
d. Immunochemistry
o Capillary Zone electrophoresis
o Gel immunofixation
o Iso-electric focussing
o Turbidimetry
e. Infectious Immunology
o Including automated ELISA IGRA for latent TB
CPV: Medical equipments
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust buys Medical equipments (CPV 3310), and who usually turns up
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’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: Medical equipments (CPV 3310) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands (authority’s region).
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 45 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
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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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid20% / 39%
2–310% / 50%
4–640% / 11%
7+30% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate83%
Within ±2%0%
Above estimate17%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 3310Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid39%
2–350%
4–611%
7+0%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 5 Jun 2026, 16:01 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jun 2026, 16:01 BST
- Authority reference
C451727- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053486- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06af0fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published143 days ago5 Jun 2026, 16:01 BST
- Market engagement115 days ago3 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
BBCS intends to undertake a programme of pre-market engagement across the dates of 21/07/2026 – 05/08/2026. BBCS will make a final decision on the most appropriate route to market following completion of this engagement activity.
As part of this process, interested suppliers will be invited to attend a site visit to the Immunology laboratory. This site visit will be scheduled for either 21/07/2026 or 22/07/2026. This visit is intended to allow suppliers to gain an understanding of the current laboratory environment, operational workflows and space constraints within the existing laboratory.
Following the site visits, suppliers will be invited to a slot to attend a virtual engagement session, and deliver a short presentation addressing points which BBCS wishes to explore. The presentations will be scheduled for either 04/08/2026 or 05/08/2026.
Details of the exact date and allocated time slot for the site visit and presentation will be sent to you via the Atamis portal, and all subsequent invites and information will also be provided here following the closing date.
Atamis portal reference:
C451727 - “UHB Immunology Managed Service - MARKET ENGAGEMENT 2026/27”
- Tender notice expected31 days ago25 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 246 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Jun 2026, 16:01 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender