What the buyer wrote
NHS England issuing a Direct Award Contract to University of Southampton Clinical Trials Unit for the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad (CVLP) Services. The initial term will be 24 months from 1 May 2026, with the potential to extend up to 3 additional years in increments. The CVLP is a strategic priority and collaboration between NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Office for Life Sciences (OLS), and National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), with the aim to facilitate access to personalised cancer vaccine research trials and other immunotherapies. The programme is a scale up phase in the development, testing, and evaluation of personalised cancer vaccines and other…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad (CVLP) Scale-up
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Work starts
- 30 Apr 2026
- Work ends
- 30 Apr 2028
- Where
- in Yorkshire and The Humber
Who the buyer named
Julian Farley - Procurement Manager was the named contact on this notice.