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    Falsified Medicines Barcode Aggregation Service

    Health Service Executive (HSE)

    Falsified Medicines Barcode Aggregation Service

    1. Supplier selection

      4. juni kl. 00:004. juni 2026 kl. 00:00

    2. Result notice published

      4. juni kl. 09:434. juni 2026 kl. 09:43

    Brief

    Ireland: Tenders/Health Service Executive (HSE)/Falsified Medicines Barcode Aggregation Service

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    Brief

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    The Health Service Executive (HSE) intends to enter into agreements with United Drug (Wholesale) Limited and Uniphar Wholesale Limited for the provision of a barcode aggregation service for Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) compliant medicines supplied to hospital pharmacies in Ireland. This service aims to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort by linking multiple medicine packs to a single barcode, allowing for verification of all contents with one scan, while maintaining FMD compliance.

    Result

    Winners
    • Uniphar Wholesale Ltd
    • United Drug (Wholesale) Ltd
    Number of bids
    0
    Contract value
    Not stated

    About the bid

      The HSE intends to establish new contracts with United Drug (Wholesale) Limited and Uniphar Wholesale Limited to provide a barcode aggregation service for medicines subject to Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) that are supplied to hospital pharmacies. Due to technical, legal, and operational constraints, only these wholesalers can perform aggregation on their own stock, making a competitive tender impractical and justifying a negotiated procedure under EU Directive 2014/24/EU. FMD requires packs of medicines subject to this legislation to be uniquely identified (serialised), verified, and decommissioned before use, ensuring authenticity, traceability, and patient safety. However, scanning every individual pack creates significant workload in hospitals. Aggregation addresses this by linking multiple medicine packs in a tote to a single barcode, allowing hospital staff to verify all contents of the tote with one scan. This improves efficiency, reduces manual effort and errors, while maintaining full compliance with FMD requirements. Ireland’s regulated medicines supply chain relies heavily on wholesalers, who distribute medicines in consolidated deliveries. Previous HSE aggregation contracts with these wholesalers have expired, and new agreements are now required to continue this service.

      Contact phone
      0599178062
      Contact email
      brona.walsh@hse.ie
      Address
      Oak House, Millennium Park Naas Co. Kildare, RE Kildare

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    Contracting authority
    Health Service Executive (HSE)
    Title
    Falsified Medicines Barcode Aggregation Service
    Type
    ResultPrequalification
    Main code
    72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
    Supplemental codes
    33000000Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

    Supplemental codes added by Cobrief

    72212720Bar coding software development services
    72330000Content or data standardization and classification services
    85149000Pharmacy services
    Location
    Dublin

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