Unlicensed and Specials Medicines
Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics ServiceEstimated Value
Not specified
Deadline
Not specified
Published
5 June 2025
Type
Not specified
Overview
Health and Social Care Trusts (HSC) in Northern Ireland plan to tender for Unlicensed Medicines and Specials later this year. In order to assist with the development of a service specification and an appropriate methodology for the assessment of tenders, we are keen to engage with suppliers who would be willing to provide unlicensed and, or specials medicines to Health Trusts in Northern Ireland.
The purpose of the engagement is to aid our understanding of current market conditions and capacity. The HSC intend to establish a multi-supplier framework which will cater for four categories of medicines: 1.
Aseptically prepared unlicensed medicines, 2. Imported specials, 3.
Additional details
Non-aseptic specials, 4. Over-labelled medicines.
We hope that the Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) will help encourage supplier interest in this tender. It will also help us understand any barriers to tendering that suppliers currently face so these can be considered when drafting the HSC tender.
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Likely incumbents
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- 1
Roche Diagnostics Ltd
7 contracts wonlatest 4 Mar 2026£181m
total awarded
- 2
Northern Hospital Supplies Ltd
5 contracts wonlatest 12 Aug 2026£104m
total awarded
- 3
Uniphar Medtech UK Ltd t/a Cardiac Services
5 contracts wonlatest 12 Aug 2026£54m
total awarded
- 4
Uniphar Medtech Ltd t/a M.E.D. Surgical
5 contracts wonlatest 29 Sept 2025£173m
total awarded
- 5
Draeger Medical Uk Ltd
4 contracts wonlatest 1 Oct 2026ends 31 Jul 2031£70m
total awarded
Roche Diagnostics Ltd is the most likely incumbent based on recency and category match. To win, bidders typically need a clearly differentiated proposition or a price advantage.
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Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics ServiceKey Dates
Published
5 June 2025
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Notice type
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