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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Aseptic & TPN Service Provision

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33600000 33692300 33140000 85149000 33616000 33617000 15880000 33692200 33692500 33692700
Value£200.0m
Awarded9 Aug 2023
Published13 Jul 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£200.0mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£216.0m

This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking an Aseptic Service Provider to manufacture, prepare, and deliver drugs and associated services.

The supplier will be expected to provide the service from a fully staffed, Sterile MHRA compliant manufacturing facility, using qualified microbiologists, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who manufacture the bespoke patient doses from base drugs.

Daily deliveries of 'fresh product' to the Trust's sites will be required and sometimes several times a day, due to this the Trust will require the Aseptic Service Provider facility to be based within a 30-minute distribution location due to the expiry of certain drug doses.

The supplier will be required to manufacture named patient supply and batch supplies of Parenteral Nutrition, Biologicals and Chemotherapy.

Essentially, the supplier will receive raw materials (un-compounded drugs) and process them into tangible products as per the Trusts' requirements, with the current levels detailed below: This will be for Adults, Paediatric and Neonatal patients.

Current annual volume of work is: - 3 471 Adult standard TPN bags, - 517 Adult standard TPN bags with tailored additions, - 2 060 Adult bespoke TPN bags, - 750 Paediatric TPN Bags as a mixture of batches of standard formulations and tailor-made bags named for patients, - 4 584 Neonatal TPN bags as a mixture of: standard bags of the shelf, batches of standard formulations and tailored bags named for patients, - 30 602 named patient cancer chemotherapeutic doses, - 4 144 named patient mono-clonal antibodies, OUH may purchase some of the drugs directly, that will be 'handled' by the supplier, or instruct the supplier to purchase them on the Trusts' behalf to then be rebated monthly to deliver the compound service.

The contract will be awarded to the successful supplier for a term of 10 years Additional CPV Codes; 33600000- Pharmaceutical products 33140000- Medical consumables 85149000 - Pharmacy services 33616000 - Vitamins 33617000- Mineral supplements 33692200- Parenteral nutrition products 33692300- Enteral feeds 3369250- Injectable solutions 33692700 - Glucose solutions 15880000 - Special nutritional products To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH)

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is seeking an Aseptic Service Provider to manufacture, prepare, and deliver drugs and associated services.

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The supplier will be expected to provide

The supplier will be expected to provide the service from a fully staffed, Sterile MHRA compliant manufacturing facility, using qualified microbiologists, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who manufacture the bespoke patient doses from base drugs.

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The supplier will be required to manufacture

The supplier will be required to manufacture named patient supply and batch supplies of Parenteral Nutrition, Biologicals and Chemotherapy.

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OUH may purchase some of the drugs

OUH may purchase some of the drugs directly, that will be 'handled' by the supplier, or instruct the supplier to purchase them on the Trusts' behalf to then be rebated monthly to deliver the compound service.

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Should Tenderers have any queries, or having

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at:.

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