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Maintenance of Existing Controlled Rate Freezers

NHS Blood and Transplant · NHS and health

In brief

NHS Blood and Transplant awarded medical supplies work to Planer Limited.

The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

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What the notice says

NHSBT have requirements to cryopreserve haemopoietic stem cells for transplantation and Tissue Services cryopreserve processed tissue allografts (such as skin, arteries and heart valves). To ensure cell viability, the cells / tissues have to be frozen at a controlled rate prior to storing in vapour phase nitrogen at a temperature below-150°C. Rapid freezing would cause cell/tissue damage and result in the loss of cell/tissue viability; as such the products must be slowed at a rate no quicker than -2°C /minute until they are below -40°C. A controlled rate freezer is the best way of achieving the slow rate of freeze required. NHSBT currently have 28 controlled rate freezers across 6 sites that require a maintenance contract.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Planer Limited (SME)£425,156

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Transparency notice · UK5, notice 014167-2026

About the buyer

NHS Blood and TransplantLast 12 months

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From notice 014167-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 17 February 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.