UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

This contract formalises the continued delivery of the Whole School Approach to Emotional and Mental Well-being (WSAEMWB) across schools in Cardiff and Vale for the 2025–2026 funding period. Cardiff Council will appoint a skilled Implementation Lead to collaborate with schools and local education authorities, driving the embedding of the WSAEMWB framework. The goal is for all maintained schools to have a comprehensive emotional and mental wellbeing action plan in place by March 31, 2026.

Purchase of upgraded Vocera Sync Badges and accessories, along with a one‑year maintenance and support agreement, to ensure continuity of clinical communication services across Hafan Y Coed and wider Health Board areas.

Provision of Insourcing of Cataracts Procedures within Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CVUHB) acts as the lead organisation for a long established Consortium of Welsh Health Boards: Aneurin Bevan, Cwm Taf Morgannwg, Hywel Dda, Powys Teaching and Swansea Bay, working collectively since 2011 to ensure a safe, specialist and sustainable model of palliative respite care for children with life shortening and life limiting conditions across Wales.

Powys Teaching Local Health Board requires a contractor to provide electrical and biomedical engineering services to maintain its portfolio of medical devices. This service should include cyclical maintenance, repairs, call outs, parts, labour and shipping (where applicable). The full scope of the contract is outlined within the specification document. A supplementary asset list is provided in Appendix 1 of the specification which lists all current Health Board owned assets and their relative servicing requirements. Please note, this list is currently accurate, but may be subject to change across the life of the contract as new assets are procured and previously owned assets are condemned. Contractors should consider this when collating their bids. This contract will be for an initial three (3) year period with the option for the Health Board to extend, at its sole discretion and subject to satisfactory contractor performance, for an additional two (2) years. If undertaken, the two (2) year extensions would be awarded in one (1) year increments following separate and independent successive reviews. The full details are outlined with the tender documents attached within Bravo eTenderWales.

additional Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) on the Health Board sites

This is a 60 month maintenance contract for Wassenburg Drying Cabinets located at Neath Port Talbot Hospital, arranged via NHS Supply Chain with Wassenburg Ltd. The cabinets provide controlled drying and HEPA filtered storage for flexible endoscopes, ensuring compliance with decontamination standards and reducing infection risks. Ongoing maintenance is essential to guarantee equipment reliability, patient safety, and regulatory compliance. Without this contract, downtime could increase, potentially delaying procedures and impacting service delivery across the Health Board.

Hywel Dda University Health Board intends to award a contract for the delivery of an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) and Asset Based Workforce Development (ABWD) programme to Nurture Development via a direct award route. This programme is central to the region’s commitment to embed the Social Model for Health and Wellbeing (SMfHW) and will underpin system wide cultural change across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. The work requires a provider with the rare ability to integrate ABCD and ABWD approaches, deliver large scale workforce development, and align directly with the SMfHW Delivery Plan (2025–2028). This includes delivery of leadership engagement, workforce surveys, community based insight gathering, immersive training, mentoring, and a Train the Trainer model within tight delivery timelines. Dr Russell is the only provider able to deliver this package to the required technical standard and within the timescales available. This is due to the following factors: • Unique specialist expertise in both ABCD and ABWD, combined with experience in system wide cultural change—expertise not available from other UK providers, who typically specialise in only one of these domains. • Established alignment with the Hywel Dda SMfHW programme, including existing knowledge of the region’s Charter, Principles, Maturity Matrix, and ongoing workstreams, removing the need for lengthy orientation and ensuring continuity. • Ability to mobilise immediately, which is essential to meet financial year and delivery commitments. Alternative national providers have mobilisation lead times of 6–12 months and cannot commence within the required window. • Contextual understanding of West Wales, including rurality, population health challenges and partnership infrastructure, ensuring the programme is locally relevant and operationally feasible. • Capacity to deliver in person across the region, and to provide culturally competent delivery tailored to local needs, including the ability to incorporate Welsh medium content where needed. Given the urgent timelines, the technical specificity of the programme, and the absence of any alternative provider capable of delivering the integrated ABCD/ABWD model at the required scale, pace and depth, a direct award to Nurture Development represents the only viable and value for money option to fulfil the Health Board’s obligations and deliver on the regional SMfHW commitments

Contract details notice for the Provision of Level 3 SMT - Aseptic Principles Pharmacy Technical Service Course

Award for the provision of a Social Prescribing Digital Platform to support primary care referrals into community services, including system access, reporting, integration with clinical systems, and ongoing technical support.

Provision of Medical Evaluation of Prospective Stem Cell Donors to Welsh Blood Service including clinical assessment services to determine an individual’s suitability to act as a stem cell donor, reviewing medical history, conducting examinations, and performing relevant tests to ensure compliance with safety and eligibility requirements for donation.

BCUHB is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified contractor to provide a Flow Cytometry Managed Service Contract. Flow Cytometry is highly specialised laboratory testing that includes the diagnosis and follow-up of haematological malignancy, enumeration of stem cells, lymphocyte subset, and the estimation of foetal-maternal haemorrhage. This service will include equipment, maintenance, consumables, reagents, information technology and training by way of managed service contract (the “Requirement”). BCUHB will seek to implement a solution that provides for standardisation of laboratory policies, processes, test profiles and rationalisation of testing in addition to integrating efficient workflows via data analysis and contract management.

This contract commissions time-limited external support to assist Cardiff and Vale University Health Board in responding to a significant and worsening financial position while operating under Welsh Government oversight and escalation arrangements. The Health Board is forecasting a 56.2m GBP deficit in 2025/26, compared to a 27.7m GBP deficit outturn in 2024/25, and faces a material underlying financial gap in 2026/27 that cannot be addressed through business-as-usual savings alone. In the context of the 2026/27 planning round and the requirement to demonstrate a credible medium-term route to financial sustainability, the Board has agreed to commission independent support to identify the scale and nature of change required to alter the current financial trajectory. The purpose of the assignment is to develop a finite, decision-grade set of approximately five to seven high-impact options that explicitly set out what activity, services or sites would need to slow, stop, be consolidated, decommissioned or traded off in order to materially improve the financial position in 2026/27 and demonstrate a credible path to medium-term financial balance. The focus is on making the consequences of affordability explicit rather than developing narrative strategies, consensus or recommendations on preferred options. Each option must be articulated in granular operational terms, including affected services or sites, the nature of the change, workforce implications linked directly to service and activity change (including WTE impact), financial impact and phasing, delivery dependencies and constraints, and key risks and trade-offs including impacts on access, quality, safety and workforce. Options must clearly distinguish between what could realistically contribute in 2026/27 and what would deliver benefit in later years. The work will complement existing internal savings programmes, bring independent challenge and judgement, avoid optimism bias and untested productivity assumptions, and be delivered at pace within a tight timeframe. Outputs must be suitable for Board consideration and engagement with Welsh Government. The external support will provide analysis and option appraisal only, with all substantive outputs completed by no later than 31 March 2026.

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an assessment tool widely used across NHS Wales and the broader NHS to evaluate the clinical competence of internationally educated nurses and midwives. Health Boards, such as Swansea Bay, Powys, and Aneurin Bevan provide structured OSCE preparation and support programmes, demonstrating its integral role in workforce integration.

This procurement qualifies for a direct award under the provisions of Schedule 5, Paragraph 6 the Procurement Act 2023, as the software is proprietary and can only be obtained directly from Imosphere. No authorised resellers or equivalent alternatives exist in the market, making competitive tendering not feasible. Awarding the contract directly ensures: • Continuity of service across essential mental health systems. • Compatibility with existing Carepartner infrastructure and associated interfaces. • Compliance with software licensing and data security requirements. • Mitigation of operational risk, avoiding disruption that could result from using non-compatible or unsupported alternatives.

This is a renewal of the Stryker Power Tools service contract for theatres at Bronglais, Glangwili, Prince Philip, and Withybush Hospitals. As high-risk medical equipment, these devices must be maintained under a formal regime to ensure patient safety, regulatory compliance, and equipment reliability. The contract provides planned maintenance, rapid response repairs, and return-to-service support, minimising disruption to surgical procedures. Without this contract, theatre operations could be delayed or disrupted, directly impacting patient care across the Health Board.

Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) have awarded a contract for the renewal of their Snyk Open Source Solution. The requirement supports HDUHB’s Digital Services Development Team with a solution to analyse code as it is written to identify insecure code writing and facilitate the correction of security flaws within their software. The software solution encourages real-time adjustments to code writing to limit the Health Board’s security vulnerabilities and licence issues allowing the Development Team to securely write and develop code. Additionally, the real-time assessment of code in the writing phase means the need to continuously analyse the software following release through static penetration tests is removed, which will reduce the development lifecycle.

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – Procurement Services (NWSSP-PS) are working in collaboration with the Health Boards in Wales to commission an Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) service, in line with the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Health (Wales) Measures 2010 (Part 4). The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) on behalf of the NHS Wales is appointing suitably qualified contractor/s of Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) services across: Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Hywel Dda University Health Board Powys Teaching Health Board Swansea Bay University Health Board The MHA (1983) has recently undergone an independent review, and the UK Government has responded to this review in the form of a White Paper and provide consultation on is proposal to accept, reject or amend the independent review recommendations. To enable the flexibility to deal with any proposed changes that may come about as a result of the White Paper, an additional clause has been included within the overarching terms and conditions of this agreement. This clause stipulates that should the accepted updates to the Mental Health Act cause a material change to the contract, the contract can be terminated and re-procured in line with the updates.

Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) proposes to commission the Primary Care Vasectomy Service providing Vasectomy procedures within a community setting. The model is aimed to offer timely and effective care for non-complex cases within primary care. The service is commissioned outside the general medical services (GMS) contract, as it is specialised activity not routinely performed by all GPs. Referrals will be made directly to the provider during the contract period 1st May 2026 to 30th April 2031