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Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB) is seeking to engage with suppliers ahead of a planned procurement exercise for the provision of multi-language translation and interpretation services, operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Health Board currently utilises the Wales Interpretation and Translation Service (WITS) under a collaborative public sector contract. However, due to increased demand and evolving service needs, the Health Board intends to explore alternative and innovative service delivery models that ensure value for money, flexibility, and high-quality patient-centred care. We are particularly interested in engaging with suppliers who can offer: • 24/7 availability across all modalities (face-to-face, telephone, video, BSL, and written translation) • Digital delivery platforms with real-time scheduling and feedback • Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) and Machine Translation (MT) capabilities • AI-powered translation tools for non-clinical communications • Flexible pricing structures, including tiered or prorated billing for short-duration appointments • Transparent subcontracting arrangements and robust quality assurance mechanisms This Notice is issued to invite expressions of interest and facilitate pre-market engagement sessions to assess supplier readiness, innovation, and alignment with NHS standards and GDPR compliance. Interested suppliers are encouraged to register their interest and provide a brief overview of their capabilities, including: • Service coverage and operational hours • Technology integration and innovation • Experience in public sector or healthcare settings • Quality assurance and performance monitoring frameworks Deadline for expressions of interest: 5th September 2025 Contact for submissions and queries: - Lowri Crossman, Procurement Business Officer - Lily Prance, Procurement Business Manager This notice does not constitute a call for competition but aims to inform the market of a potential future procurement and gather insights to shape the specification and approach.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB) provides health services to a population of around 472,400 people living within Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. As part of the service provided by the Health Board, the Patient Catering Department provide food and drink to all patients to ensure they receive all necessary nutrients to aid their recovery. As part of this process, they produce a lot of the meals internally at the Central Production Unit (CPU) with these then distributed across the sites. Therefore, CAVUHB require the supply of aluminium foil containers and the lids for the storage of the meals that are produced. These containers must be standardised to ensure there is no deviation in the service provided. The following sizes of containers and lids are required: 350 grams 800 grams 1400 grams The containers must comply with all food safety regulations, be 100% recyclable and tolerate temperatures of -24°c to +180°C. The lids must be uncoated, 100% recyclable and consist of a cardboard lid with foil underside.

The Welsh Blood Service is looking to go out to competitive tender for the supply, installation, and maintenance of a fully automated coagulation analyser. The system should be a compact, yet powerful coagulation analyser designed for low- to medium-volume laboratories. The system should offer fully automated testing for both routine and specialty assays, streamlining workflows with minimal operator intervention. With a throughput of up to 110 tests per hour, it should support continuous operation—allowing samples and reagents to be loaded at any time without interrupting the testing process. The system should accommodate at least 20 onboard samples and associated cooled reagents, ensuring optimal stability for sensitive assays. Its interface should be intuitive and accommodate, barcoded reagent management, and automatic quality control execution make it user-friendly and efficient for busy lab environments. The system must demonstrate proven usage in ISO15189 laboratories, with EQAS performance included as part of the assurance framework. Functionally, the system should enable comprehensive insights into coagulation parameters, including clotting factors and fibrinogen levels. And should support a broad test menu using validated reagents, enabling disease-state management for conditions such as thrombophilia and von Willebrand disease. Advanced features like rerun and reflex testing, factor assay parallelism, and clot signature curve analysis (or pre-calibrated curves) enhance diagnostic accuracy and confidence. Whether monitoring anticoagulant therapy or diagnosing bleeding disorders, the system must provide reliable, high-quality results that contribute to better patient care. Technically, the system must support data creation storage and back-up that is compliant with current regulation including ALCOA++ and GDPR. The operating system that supports the application software must be currently supported to enable maintenance using security patches. System security should enable role-based access controls tailored to individual responsibilities, with at least four access levels, Operator, Operation and Validation, Configuration and Engineer. Interested parties are invited to email nwssp.procurementcataloguepathology@wales.nhs.uk to register their interest for this opportunity by Tuesday 23rd September 2025. N.B.1. No estimated costs for the requirement are available at this stage.

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership is undertaking this preliminary market engagement exercise to seek feedback from suppliers to support the future procurement of the reprocure a contract for the Emergency Department Well-being & Home Safe Service. The contract is expected to support Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Hywel Dda University Health Board and Swansea Bay University Health Board for an initial contract term of 12 months with a further 4 year extension option from 1st April 2026. Please note, a nominal value has been stated to allow this notice to be published. The tender will be split into the following Lotting structure: Lot 1 - Cardiff and Vale University Heath Board (University Hospital Wales) Lot 2 - Hywel Dda University Health Board ( Glangwili General Hospital) Lot 3 - Swansea Bay University Health Board ( Morriston Hospital) The Emergency Department (ED) well-being and home safe service was established to support local clinical teams and patients accessing emergency department services. The service offers support for frail older people and vulnerable adults in emergency departments, as well as resettle people in their homes with follow-up welfare calls or visits, and where necessary, to connect them to community services to avoid readmission into the emergency department. Individuals’ eligible to access the service will include, but is not limited to: Persons who are awaiting triage in the Emergency Department; Persons who have been triaged and are awaiting treatment; Persons who have been treated and are awaiting admission; Persons who have been treated and deemed clinically safe for discharge; Persons who are 18 years of age and over; Visitors and families of persons require temporary support; Visitors and families of persons require temporary support;

The Welsh Blood Service are seeking a supplier to build mobile blood donations units (including generators) and supply support vehicles.

I. Introduction and Invitation: If your organisation has technology solutions and/or the skills and expertise to develop new solutions in partnership with NHS clinical and operational teams, we invite you to join us at the Stroke Tech Symposium. This event is not intended for drugs development or trials. The NHS Wales Stroke Innovation and Improvement Subgroup as part of the NHS Wales Cardiovascular Network will be running a STROKE TECH SYMPOSIUM on Thursday 13 November 2025 as a means of responding to NHS stroke based clinical and operational ambitions and challenges. The categories are: • Data collection and management • Remote monitoring • Rehabilitation and Medical Adherence • Patient flow and efficiency • Patient education and support • Technology innovation and integration These categories are connected to achieving national standards, stroke prevention, treatment, digital infrastructure development, acute stroke services, post-acute stroke services, post diagnosis not-stroke (Mimic) services, hyper acute stroke unit developments. We are looking for companies with goods and/or services that might be able to help us with these challenges. The Stroke Technology Symposiums aims are to: • Catalyse partnerships between NHS teams and businesses that will lead to a project proposal(s) – funding available ~£60k. • Identify a grand challenge for a later ‘Contracts for Innovation’ (previously SBRI) project. II. Process Information you may find helpful in considering our request: Before the Stroke Tech Symposium; You are invited to register for the event. When registering you should indicate how you would like to participate in the event. We may connect you to NHS stroke teams in Wales to learn more about your goods and/or services. During the Stroke Tech Symposium; The event format – World Café: • NHS teams will share their ambitions and challenges. Businesses will have opportunities to ask/explore those ambitions and challenges by questions, clarifying the nature and context of the ambitions and challenges etc. • NHS teams will share examples of good practice. • You (businesses) will share/present your goods and/or services. • Opportunities for collaborating with NHS teams and initial preparations for submitting collaboration proposals. After the Stroke Tech Symposium; • Work with NHS teams to prepare and submit proposals • Selection process and panel After the panel decision; • Selected projects will receive funding to deliver their project(s) • A selected challenge will be passed to ‘Contracts for Innovation’ (previously SBRI) The Panel; The panel members will be senior NHS Clinicians, Executive Management, Patient and Public Representatives, and National Teams. III. Other Information you may find helpful in considering our request: This initiative is being co-ordinated on behalf of all NHS organisations in Wales and selected proposals will be progressed via the individual organisation’s procurement processes and not on a National scale. Funding will be paid only to NHS organisations who, in turn, will contract with businesses directly. Project proposals will only be accepted from businesses working in collaboration with NHS teams. Business will be expected to demonstrate how they will contribute resources or funding (in-kind) to the project. There will be no extensions to timelines. We are publicising this informal engagement widely to help NHS stroke teams explore fully and understand the potential options for future services developments. Projects will need to be delivered by end March 2026. IV. Process and timelines Interested participants to register their interest in attending by 9th October 2025 Registered participants to receive confirmation of their attendance by 15th October 2025. We will also confirm whether you will be invited to host a table during the World Café business session. Agenda will be issued prior to the Symposium Stroke Tech Symposium to be held on 13th November 2025 Selected parties to submit proposals within 4 weeks following the Symposium The Panel to meet Mid-December 2025 Distribution of Funds by end of January 2026

1.Legacy Data Viewer The Mental Health and Community Information System (MHCS) Programme within CAV UHB Digital and Health Intelligence is seeking to commission a legacy data viewer solution for circa 176 clinical services within Mental Health, community Health and Therapies services ahead of the approaching end of contract with the current EPR supplier. Due to the volume of clinical information and the bespoke nature of structured data within the current EPR, migrating the entirety of this data to a new EPR is not viable. Legacy data will need to be stored in a ‘Legacy Data Viewer’ solution accessible to services in an in-context launch. This solution entails the need to commission a dedicated team to deliver planning and designing, developing and testing a legacy data viewer solution within the current 2025/26 financial year. 2. Business Analysis: Service Mapping & Transformation Readiness The Mental Health and Community Information System (MHCS) Programme within CAV UHB Digital and Health Intelligence is seeking to commission Business Analysis expertise to apply best practices in preparing service readiness for an upcoming digital transformation project, including effectively documenting the ‘As Is’ business process/patient journey of 176 clinical services through service mapping templates and transferring this this BA toolkit to the team. Outputs will include requirements specification for service readiness documentation, service mapping plan, a bespoke process map template to apply to all MHCS services and ensure BA standardisation with comprehensive information to capture workflows and processes and a system integration map to ensure the network of integrations between the EPR in use and other systems is suitably captured. 3. Clinical Safety The Mental Health and Community Information System (MHCS) Programme within CAV UHB Digital and Health Intelligence is seeking to commission clinical safety expertise to apply DCB0129 and DCB0160 clinical safety standards to assess and inform the design and build of a data archive/viewer for accessing a legacy EPR. Requirements also include the transfer of clinical safety knowledge and best practices to the project team. This will entail working closely with the team involved in planning and deploying this solution, as well as the project team for knowledge transfer and training.

The following medicines will be included in the tender:- Aflibercept, Golimumab, Dapagliflozin and Denosumab

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB) provides health services to a population of around 472,400 people living within Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. To ensure the smooth running of CAVUHB's operations, they require Surveying and Maintenance of the Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS). This ensures continued supply of power for life serving support such as critical care beds, theatres, x-ray, CT scanners and emergency lighting in the case of emergency. The contract will involve 6 monthly surveying of the power supply to ensure all equipment is in working order. Remedial work is then to be picked up should any issues arise.

All Wales Generic Drugs – Injections/Infusions 2

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, Procurement Services (NWSSP-ProcS), hosted by Velindre NHS Trust, are seeking to publish a competitive tender on behalf of NHS Wales for an All Wales Digital Cellular Pathology Managed Service Contract. NWSSP-ProcS would like to hold pre-tender dialogue with interested parties who are able to act as a Primary Contractor in a Managed Service Contract arrangement to explore options currently available. Interested parties are invited to express interest by email to Mat Williams at nwssp.procurementcataloguepathology@wales.nhs.uk and include contact name; company name; telephone number and contact email address.

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, Procurement Services (NWSSP-PS) hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board who have a renewal requirement for a patient video consultation platform. The video consultation platform enables the clinician to conduct live one-to-one and group (e.g. up to 250-300 people) video calls that can be ad hoc or scheduled in advance with the patient. The platform allows the patient to have a clinical discussion and review from the comfort of their own home or at any location or via any device that has an internet connection (e.g. mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer).

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) Primary Care Services, is preparing a new tender for the leasing of nine Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs). These will support the safe retrieval and replacement of medical records following the introduction of 4-tier racking at its central archive. A previous tender in early 2025 explored purchase vs leasing; market research confirmed leasing offers best value due to servicing and maintenance costs. This notice seeks early engagement with suppliers ahead of the revised tender process.

The Public Health Team of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board recognises the important relationship between housing and health and is developing collaborative work on housing, within our Health Board and with wider NHS, local authority and third sector partners. To inform and target this work, we need to deepen our evidence-based understanding on how housing is affecting the health of our communities and whether unhealthy, unsafe, unsuitable or insecure housing is harming the health of certain population groups more than others. To do this, we require a Health Needs Assessment (HNA), which will systematically review the qualitative and quantitative evidence on housing and health in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Alongside a wider assessment of housing and health, we are particularly interested in understanding more on how housing affects the health of children, people with disabilities, and the health of people in temporary housing situations.

The Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry (WBMDR), part of the Velindre University NHS Trust and Welsh Blood Service, is seeking to engage with the market for the provision of an integrated software platform. The system will support all operational, regulatory, and engagement requirements associated with the collection, distribution, and importation of cellular products. It must also enable comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities for registry growth and donor engagement. The service are open to a modular development approach and due to the specialist development requirements and this could be from more than one supplier working on separate modules. It is envisaged the contract duration will be for eight (8) years with the option to extend.

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) – Supply Chain, Logistics & Transport (SCL&T) is seeking to engage with the market in relation to a forthcoming procurement for the maintenance and statutory inspection of manual handling equipment located across multiple NHS Wales sites. The intended contract will cover preventative maintenance, statutory LOLER and PUWER inspections, and associated remedial or emergency call-out work for NWSSP-owned manual handling equipment. The anticipated contract will be established as a two-year call-off arrangement, with the option to extend for a further 12 months. Suppliers will be required to demonstrate the competence, capacity, and capability to deliver inspection and maintenance services in accordance with relevant legislation, including the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998 and the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998, as well as manufacturers’ maintenance guidelines. The scope of service is expected to include: - Routine preventative maintenance visits (approximately two per annum per site); - Thorough examinations and inspections to statutory standards; - Provision of inspection reports and certification following each visit; and - Availability for remedial and emergency call-outs as required. This notice is being issued solely to obtain expressions of interest from suppliers who are capable of delivering services relating to the maintenance, inspection, and statutory testing of manual handling equipment in accordance with LOLER and PUWER regulations. The purpose of this engagement is to identify suppliers within this field of work who have the appropriate skills, experience, and capacity to undertake this type of service across NHS Wales sites. Information gathered through this process will help inform and shape the forthcoming tender opportunity. Please note that this is not a call for competition or an invitation to tender. It is purely an information-gathering exercise to understand the level of market interest and capability within this area.

This tender is for medicines which are shortly due to lose their patent exclusivity, including but not limited to Ferric Carboxymaltose; Pazopanib; Denosumab; Apremilast

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) – Supply Chain, Logistics & Transport (SCL&T) is seeking to engage with the market in relation to a forthcoming procurement for the maintenance and statutory inspection of manual handling equipment located across multiple NHS Wales sites. The intended contract will cover preventative maintenance, statutory LOLER and PUWER inspections, and associated remedial or emergency call-out work for NWSSP-owned manual handling equipment. The anticipated contract will be established as a two-year call-off arrangement, with the option to extend for a further 12 months. Suppliers will be required to demonstrate the competence, capacity, and capability to deliver inspection and maintenance services in accordance with relevant legislation, including the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998 and the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998, as well as manufacturers’ maintenance guidelines. The scope of service is expected to include: - Routine preventative maintenance visits (approximately two per annum per site); - Thorough examinations and inspections to statutory standards; - Provision of inspection reports and certification following each visit; and - Availability for remedial and emergency call-outs as required. This notice is being issued solely to obtain expressions of interest from suppliers who are capable of delivering services relating to the maintenance, inspection, and statutory testing of manual handling equipment in accordance with LOLER and PUWER regulations. The purpose of this engagement is to identify suppliers within this field of work who have the appropriate skills, experience, and capacity to undertake this type of service across NHS Wales sites. Information gathered through this process will help inform and shape the forthcoming tender opportunity. Please note that this is not a call for competition or an invitation to tender. It is purely an information-gathering exercise to understand the level of market interest and capability within this area.

Title: Market Engagement – SMART Beds Organisation: Velindre NHS Trust Description of Requirement: Velindre NHS Trust is seeking to engage with the market in advance of a potential future procurement for the provision of SMART beds. This notice aims to inform suppliers of the forthcoming requirement and invite interested parties to provide information on products that may meet the Trust’s clinical, ergonomic, and operational needs within bed delivery environments. The Trust is interested in SMART bed solutions that offer: -High levels of patient comfort suitable for extended treatment durations -Ergonomic and fully adjustable features to support patient safety and staff usability -Compliance with infection prevention and control standards -A modern aesthetic and high-quality design -Durable materials that support long-term operational efficiency and value for money Purpose of Engagement: The aim of this market engagement is to explore available products, understand technological capabilities, and assess potential cost models. This exercise will support the Trust in shaping any future procurement approach and ensuring high-quality, cost-effective solutions that enhance both patient and staff experience. Interested suppliers are invited to share: -Product information and technical specifications -Evidence of relevant standards, certifications, and compliance -Details of available features and optional enhancements -Indicative pricing structures or cost frameworks -Any additional supporting materials relevant to SMART bed solutions Important Note: This notice is issued solely for the purpose of market engagement and does not constitute a call for competition or a commitment to procure. Any future procurement activity will be conducted in accordance with applicable public procurement regulations.