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Tender: SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED - External Defibrillation Equipment, Consumables and Support Services (GBP 160,000,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 16th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Tender notice published on UK Find a Tender by SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED. Procurement: External Defibrillation Equipment, Consumables and Support Services. Description: Supply Chain Coordination Limited (“NHS Supply Chain”) is exploring options in developing a procurement for the provision of External Defibrillation Equipment, Consumables and Support Services. The procurement covers the supply of external defibrillation equipment, related services, and accessories, including external defibrillators, consumables and spare parts, and mechanical chest compression de Category: goods. Value: GBP 160,000,000 (stated tender value). Stated tender deadline: 2026-12-10 15:00:00 UTC.

Publication
UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published
16th October 2026
Original report
find-tender.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
None identified
Collected
16th October 2026 · 09:08

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity
Possibly the same underlying story as 5 steps to a resilient supply chain — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.