UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

The Scottish Newborn Screening Laboratory has been commissioned to participate in the in-service evaluation for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) organised by the National Screening Committee. NHSGG&C require newborn screening kits that measure both SMN1 and SMN2 genes simultaneously. The SMN2 copy number must be screened for at the same time as the SMN1 deletion in keeping with the Scottish screening protocol. The requirement is to screen dried blood spot samples from  newborn babies for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

This procurement presents an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for an Electronic Patient Records System emerging from a requirement within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (NHSGGC) for a system that will support the Community, Children’s and Mental Health Services (CCMH).

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Healthcare Charity (formally known as the NHSGGC Endowment Fund) is a charity registered with OSCR (SC005895) comprising in excess of 1700 restricted/unrestricted individual funds for the benefit of patients and staff. Charitable Endowment Funds: Endowment funds are defined as money or property donated to the Health Board and held in trust for such purposes relating to services provided under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or in relation to hospitals, or to the functions of the Board with respect to research, as the Board may think fit. Funds are used for equipment, patients’ comforts and amenities, research, and training together with the provision of extra facilities and opportunities not available from government funding. The Boards Endowment Fund had total net assets of GBP103.6m as of 31st March 2025 and expenditure amounted to GBP14.1m. Patients Private Funds: NHSGGC administers GBP2.5 million Patients’ Private Funds (PPF) on behalf of around 500 of its patients. Many of these patients are incapable of managing their own affairs, and are covered by the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, but others choose to use the service voluntarily because of the convenience, or because infirmity or frailness makes the use of normal banking arrangements impractical. The Board is responsible for ensuring proper accounting records are maintained, which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the PPF and for safeguarding the assets held on behalf of the patients, including taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. Both the Charitable Endowment Funds and the PPF are required to be independently audited in accordance with approved auditing standards. Consequently NHSGGC is required to conduct a regulated procurement exercise to appoint a regulated independent auditor that will provide this service.

The purchase of all tail spend products can be done in one lot. The product categories cover a vast majority of items including, but not limited to; electrical items, office equipment and supplies, catering supplies, kitchen appliances, facilities and maintenance equipment, cleaning equipment, professional tools, shipping and packaging equipment, sports and outdoor equipment, and a broad and evolving range of non-safety critical products. NHSGGC tail spend is such that we have looked towards a procurement portal that will allow our purchasing team to benchmark prices before purchase. The portal offers multi-supplier purchasing which fulfils our requirements. The content of the portal would allow in time for other areas within NHSGGC to have access to the portal if deemed suitable for their use.

NHSGG&C seek to enable those who have used mental health services to support and engage with other service users, whose experience of mental health services influences the quality and content of care and treatment provided within NHSGG&C. To ensure the ability of service users to be able to influence services and to be adequately supported to do so, we are looking to work in partnership with the successful supplier, to support the development of peer engagement while ensuring that public funds are duly considered and performance managed.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) requires a service to transport passengers and urgent packages in a timely, efficient and economic manner. Journeys figures stated are based on financial data from 2023/2024 and are for indication only. Figures are an approx. and not binding to NHSGGC. Below is breakdown of; Lot, area covered and approx. monthly journeys - Lot 1 Glasgow City - 6000 Lot 2 East Dunbartonshire - 100 Lot 3 West Dunbartonshire - 80 Lot 4 East Renfrewshire - 100 Lot 5: Renfrewshire - 700 Lot 6 Inverclyde - 200 Lot 7 Blood Transport (Board wide) - 600 This business sector is at risk of infiltrations by serious and organised crime (SOC). NHSGGC has therefore enhanced the criteria and will follow NHSGGC Procurement department's SOC mitigation protocol. Economic operators must comply fully with the conditions for participation set out in section III. Please read in conjunction with the Single Procurement Document which is provided via this contract notice.

The services to be provided consist of the operation, maintenance, and monitoring of the Biomass boiler at RAH by AMP Clean Energy. This includes all necessary technical support, routine servicing, emergency call-outs, and performance reporting to ensure the boiler operates safely, efficiently, and in line with regulatory requirements.

The provision of support services for the Health, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young (HENRY) program.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) are tendering for Aseptic Consumables. Aseptic preparation is an important part of the service delivered by pharmacy departments to facilitate accurate and timely administration of injectable medicines for patients. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is the largest of the fourteen territorial NHS Boards in Scotland. All pharmacy aseptic dispensing is undertaken in three specialist units across GG&C hospital pharmacies. The following NHS pharmacy aseptic units are included, but this list is not exhaustive: Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, New Victoria Hospital and The Royal Hospital for Children. Pharmacy aseptic units are responsible for the production of sterile medicines such as; chemotherapy, monoclonal antibody and other high risk injectable treatments. All products are prepared under strict aseptic (sterile) conditions. Stringent procedures are in place to ensure medicines are prepared to a consistently high standard to provide assurances of product quality and safety. Our GG&C aseptic services prepare approximately 97,000 products, supported by a dedicated workforce of 87 staff members. Each aseptic unit is led by a Chief Technician and operates under the oversight of a designated Responsible Pharmacist. The preparation of these medicines is carried out by skilled pharmacy technicians and assistants, ensuring adherence to strict regulatory requirements. Our pharmacy aseptic units ensure the safety and well-being of patients who require medications that are prepared under strict sterile conditions to prevent further complications. It is a complex and demanding activity requiring skilled staff, appropriate facilities and close monitoring and control. With the increasing complexity of modern medicines, procedures and strict regulations there is a need for maintaining high quality aseptic products.

There are two Cook Freeze Units within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, located at Inverclyde Royal Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital. Each site operates two automatic sealing machines. This VEAT notice is being published to enable both sites to continue purchasing bespoke containers and lidding film specifically designed for use with their current sealing machines, for a period of 12 months. This arrangement will ensure operational continuity until a competitive tender for sealing machines and consumables is undertaken, which is anticipated to be published around May 2026. The current containers are bespoke to the sealing machines. The container sizes are: GN 1/2 - 48mm x 325mm x 265mm (Height x Width x Diameter) - Colour White GN 1/3 - 48mm x 325mm x 176mm (Height x Width x Diameter) - Colour White GN 1/4 - 55mm x 265mm x 162mm (Height x Width x Diameter) - Colour White GN 1/8 - 36mm x 161mm x 131mm (Height x Width x Diameter) - Colour White GN 1/8 - 50mm x 161mm x 131mm (Height x Width x Diameter) - Colour White The Film sizes are: 335mm x 300mm (Width x Diameter) 400mm x 300mm (Width x Diameter) The width of the container, particularly the edges, are designed to ensure a uniform tight film sealing lid for produced food that requires reheating with the lid intact. The container size specified is to ensure automatic de-nesting through the machines during the sealing process where heat is automatically applied to the film lid at a temperature between +150⁰c to+170⁰c. This ensures no leaking of produce during the chill/freeze, and reheating cycle in the ovens at ward level. The containers, film and product labels must be able to withstand freezer storage temperatures at -22⁰c for up to periods of 6 months and be able to withstand regeneration temperatures of up to +150⁰c without compromising the food or label information attached.

Provision of post-diagnostic support (PDS) following a dementia diagnosis is essential to inform and enable people with dementia, and those who support them, to live as well as possible with dementia and prepare for the future. It is important the right support is offered at the right time following diagnosis in a empowering and person centred way. To deliver post-diagnostic support to people newly diagnosed with dementia. Support will be delivered and coordinated by a Link Worker, who will support the person and their natural support networks in a personalised and flexible way. PDS can be delivered in a variety of formats including one to one support, group work and online/digital formats.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is seeking an organisation to provide specialist support services to individuals with a dual sensory impairment (those who have both hearing and sight loss). The goal of the service is to enable individuals to access health service provision interventions more effectively, helping to remove communication and accessibility barriers.

Supply and installation of EMIS-X Insight/Analytic software

NHSGGC requires a sole supplier to provide the following across NHSGGC sites: - Equipment for Beverage Production: Leasing of machinery necessary for preparing coffee and tea. - Maintenance: Installation, servicing, and ongoing maintenance of the equipment. - Training and Support: Ensuring staff are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to operate the equipment efficiently. - Associated Consumables; Coffee, Tea, and associated products (including but not limited to; chocolate, syrups).

The scope of this contract is for the services of an Authorising Engineer to ensure that safe systems of work and inspection regimes are in place and carried out in accordance with the guidance and legislative requirement throughout NHS Scotland. The scope of the proposed contract will cover the provision of Authorising Engineers Services HV & LV Installations. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde believe on the only company that can provide this service to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is MPM Professional Engineering Services.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) require a Contractor to provide a Managed Laboratory Service for the large majority of analyses performed within the NHSGGC Laboratory Medicine Department across the full range of laboratory specialties. The individual requirements for the Procurement are: Section A - General Section B - Board IT Requirements Section C - Biochemistry and Immunology Section D - Haematology Section E - Pathology Section F - Microbiology Section G - Sample Collection Devices

There is a immediate service requirement (festive period 2025) for a mobile community diagnostics service which delivers comprehensive mobile community diagnostics vehicle capable of supporting x-ray, ultrasounds and IVD as a single solution. The diagnostics equipment must be designed to fit into a conventional vehicle operated by one person (for LEZ and carbon zero applicability) and must be able to be deployed in the community, places of residence (including tenement flats etc) and care homes. Due to the nature turnaround times of reports must be within 1 hour for image/test acquisition. It must have an immediate all-in-one solution with connectivity with a native tele-diagnostics self-contained platform covering plain film and cross-sectional reporting and be interoperable with Board systems using HL7 standards for data exchange. Any vendor must provide full end-to-end acceptance testing with the Health Board before go-live, including validation of equipment, workflows, and connectivity. Local engineering support must be available within 120 minutes of call-out and have an equipment contingency plan delivered within 24 hours should a fault be reported. Patients must be treated and outcome reported whilst within the community setting therefore reporting required in an hour in order to ensure we complete with prescribing or additional requests before the radiographer (advanced practice) leaves the home.

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board and Golden Jubilee Hospital (hereafter referred to as ‘The Board’) regularly appoint a variety of external Multi-trades to undertake General Building Works between One Thousand (GBP 1,000) and Fifty Thousand Pounds (GBP 50,000). The Tenderer(s) shall provide Small Works in respect of Planned and Reactive Works. The key services being sought are planned works, routine maintenance works, and unplanned reactive works / emergency call outs. From time to time and in spite of the controls in place to prevent them, emergency repair or maintenance works may also need to be carried out. The volume of tender exercises currently being undertaken has identified the need for a framework to be established that provides a better value process for procuring General Building Works between One Thousand (GBP 1,000) and Fifty Thousand Pounds (GBP 50,000).

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (hereafter referred to as ‘The Board’) seeks to establish a framework agreement with a maximum of six (6) qualified suppliers in line with Public Contracts Scotland 2015 for the supply and delivery of Ironmongery Products and Ironmongery Sundries across its sites. This framework will allow The Board to efficiently manage a range of suppliers, ensuring continuity of supply, competitive pricing, and high service standards. Suppliers selected to join the framework will be expected to provide a reliable, cost-effective, and high-quality service, while meeting The Boards demand for various Ironmongery and Sundries items.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board (hereafter referred to as ‘The Board’) require suitably qualified and experienced Contractor to provide repair and maintenance of the Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) plastic roof at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital through a contract. Vector Foiltec are the only company that can maintain the repair and maintenance of the Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) plastic roof at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital due to the specialised materials used.