Awarded contract

Fibroscanner Lease

Details

Supplier(s)
Echosens
Value
£151,560
Duration
3 years
Topic
Medical equipments
Published
21 August 2026

Tender description

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive Fibroscanning services, establishing a non-invasive, gold-standard clinical pathway for staging liver fibrosis and monitoring liver disease progression. Virtually all patients attending an outpatient hepatology clinic at the Freeman Hospital require a Fibroscan to safely manage their care. The Trust is intending to award directly to Echosens for a 36 month lease of two Fibroscanners plus maintenance under Schedule 5, paragraph 2 of the Procurement Act 2023. Direct award justification: Single supplier - intellectual property or exclusive rights Single supplier - technical reasons The equipment manufacturer, Echosens, is the exclusive, sole-source global provider of this specific diagnostic technology ## Contract award Title: Fibroscanner Leases

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published21 August 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date21 August 2026
  3. Next: Contract expiry date13 November 2029in 3 years

About the buyer

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Freeman Hospital and Great North Children's Hospital, and buys as an NHS trust. Clinical support contracts, such as ambulance transport and laboratory services, are commissioned directly by the trust.

Over the past 5 years, most of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

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