Managed Service Contract for the Provision of Secondary Blood Grouping & Sickle Cell Testing

Prior to commencing a formal procurement process and to help inform our strategy/ requirements, NHSBT is seeking to engage with suppliers of commercially available automated blood group testing equipment for use as a secondary testing technology for ABO and Rh D typing, antibody screening and identification, extended red cell phenotyping and HbAS (heterozygous sickle cell trait) screening for donor blood, tissues and stem cell (haemopoietic progenitor cells and therapeutic cells) samples.

NHSBT would like to consult the market to improve our knowledge of all current systems available in the marketplace, identify further opportunities and, potential issues, and gauge market interest in the proposed service. The equipment will be high throughput with walk away operation and the technology will meet the current and future needs of the service, in a cost-effective manner.