Purchase of Lab chemicals for school science labs
A single aggregated purchase across 8 regions. Institutions pledge while the window is open, the volume is competed once, and each buyer confirms before anything is ordered.
The detail
- Category
- 12350000
- 12350000
- Buying group
- Institutions pledging in the requisition window
- Open to
- all registered suppliers
- Closed on
- 27 Aug 2026
- Closed 27 Aug 2026
No indicative value is published for this competition. Demand is still being collected from the participating institutions, and a figure that later turned out to be wrong would be worse than no figure at all.
Member institutions are never obliged to order against the result. A framework sets the price and the terms; each institution decides for itself whether to use them.
What you will need
What a supplier must hold to quote on this pooled purchase. Each one is assessed before any price is compared, and a quote that fails it is never priced.
- Registered on ValueHive as a supplier, with vetting approved
- Subscription cleared, since an unpaid seller cannot be issued an order
Items and quantities
Pooled demand across every institution taking part, frozen when the requisition window closed. This is the volume you quote on.
| Item | Unit | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| Borosilicate Test Tubes, 16 x 150 mm (pack of 50) | Pack | 1,000 |
| Bio liquid fertilizer, 20 litre | Jerrican | 2,000 |
How to take part
Bidding has closed
Submissions for VH/EVT/1235/2026/003 are under evaluation and no further bids can be accepted. Register now and you will be prequalified before the next competition in this category opens.
- 1
Register as a supplier
Send us your company details and what you supply. We open a supplier account and issue a compliance checklist for this category.
- 2
Clear prequalification
Upload the documents listed above. Each one is checked and you can see what is still outstanding. Most first applications need one clarification, which is normal and does not count against you.
- 3
Quote the aggregated volume before the deadline
The quantities shown above are the pledged demand, already gathered and frozen, so you are pricing a known volume rather than an estimate. Quotes stay sealed until the deadline passes and no price is readable before then, including by us. Volume bands are recommended: they are what lets a shortfall resolve itself instead of reopening the price.
- 4
Qualification, then price
Every quote is first checked against the qualification requirements listed above. Only the quotes that meet them are compared at all, so a cheaper quote that missed a mandatory requirement is not passed over on price, it was never admissible. The comparison is the total cost across the whole aggregated volume, with delivery averaged over the regions you cover rather than added up, and a quote that leaves an item unpriced ranks below every complete one. TVCCL awards, then each institution confirms its own share.