Published date: 14 September 2020

This notice was replaced on 3 November 2020

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 3 November 2020)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Community health services - 85323000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£135,000

Procurement reference

LGSS001-DN498476-44647073

Published date

14 September 2020

Closing date

25 September 2020

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

17 October 2020

Contract end date

16 July 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Background
National Approach to Test and Trace
• The Government launched the NHS Test and Trace Service on 28th May 2020. This national service is designed to control the virus and enable people to live a safer and more normal life. The overarching guiding principles being Test; Trace; Contain; Enable.
• The NHS Test and Trace Service will work as a proposed 3 tier system; Tier 1 is of relevance for the local testing system
• Tier 1 will be a regionalised network, including sub-regional and localised delivery providing contact tracing, consequence management and support in relation to complex settings, cohorts and individuals / households.
• Local planning and response will be the key to allowing the national service to work effectively at large scale.
• Local outbreak control plans centring on 7 key themes will be developed; and key theme 3 is identified as 'local testing capacity'
• The local testing service will need to ensure a swift response that is accessible to the local population (defining how to prioritise and manage deployment)
• A key consideration will be the ability of the local testing system to be able to respond swiftly once a complex cluster or setting has been identified through the national NHS Test and Trace initiative or through any other national or local stakeholders; e.g. East of England PHE Centre

Aims and Objectives
• The objective is to ensure that swift and effective local provision of community swabbing is always available to support the multiagency SARS-CoV-2 outbreak response in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
• The aim will be to build on existing commissioned services (eg: School Nursing, District Nursing) in the creation of the systems and extra capacity required to achieve the objective above.

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About the buyer

Contact name

David Isaacs

Address

Shire Hall
Castle Hill
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1223703518

Email

david.isaacs@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.lgss.co.uk/about/