Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13bbc-9d0d-723d-8c17-b915fcd53aca/unlicensed-and-specials-medicines

pending GB open procedure

# Unlicensed and Specials Medicines

[Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service](https://tendernation.io/buyers/regional-business-services-organisation-procurement-and-logistics-service)

Estimated value

Not stated

Published

5 Jun 2025

Deadline

Rolling deadline

## Who can bid

- Below-threshold contract

    Buyers cannot shortlist bidders on suitability before tenders are in, so everyone gets to submit a bid (except some larger works contracts).

    [Procurement Act 2023, section 85](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/section/85)
- Sets up a framework

    Winning a place does not guarantee work: contracts are awarded later as call-offs, and the list usually stays closed for years.
- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

## About this tender

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:

- Aseptically prepared unlicensed medicines,
- Imported specials,
- Non-aseptic specials,
- 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.

## CPV classification

Pharmaceutical products Pharmacy services

Source

Find a Tender (UK) · Notice ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd-2025-06-05T14:38:50+01:00

[View official notice](https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/ocds-h6vhtk-0543bd-2025-06-05T14:38:50+01:00)

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