Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has published 26 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 4 CPV divisions, most often repair and maintenance services.

Across 15 awarded contracts the median value is £283k.

Its published awards total £6.8m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 35 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 8 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.5 tenders a month, measured over 56 months of history.
Half of their 15 awarded contracts are worth £283k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in repair and maintenance services, laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses), medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products.
Their most frequent suppliers are Grifols Uk Ltd (3), Abbott (2), Roche Diagnostics (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Primary Blood Grouping Analyser & Associated Consumables	Beckman Coulter Ltd	21 December 2022	£840k
Red Cell Serology	Grifols Uk Ltd	5 July 2022	£3.3m
Temperature Mapping Kits	Cambridge Life Sciences Limited	22 February 2022	£88.2k
Calibration Services	Fluke UK Ltd.	11 February 2022	£108k
Automated NAT Assay System	Cepheid UK Ltd	10 February 2022	£330k
Temperature Mapping Services	VWR International Ltd	17 December 2021	£55k

Contracts are dated by the tender's closing date — award dates are not published in the source data.