Published date: 15 September 2020
Last edited date: 25 November 2020
Closed early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products - 33000000
Medical consumables - 33140000
Diagnostic kits - 33141625
Test tubes - 33192500
Manual swab test kits - 38911000
Location of contract
SW1H 0EU
Procurement reference
CF-0011900D0O000000rwimUAA6
Published date
15 September 2020
Closing date
5 October 2020
Contract type
Supply contract
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
In line with the Government's testing strategy, the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) is seeking to procure sample collection consumables for COVID-19 testing in order to scale up testing to meet forecast demand for winter. To begin with, the DHSC would like to build an understanding of suppliers in the market who can support this scale up - hence the issuance of this RFI.
Kindly click on the links below to access the relevant specification documents along with the RFI response excel. For the provision of responses to this RFI, please follow the "RFI Response Instructions" as highlighted in the "RFI Background & Context" sheet of the excel document.
Although the end date for this RFI is 30/09/2020, we are requesting responses to be submitted as soon as possible.
Thank you for your interest in this RFI - we appreciate your support.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
COVID-19 Sample Collection Consumables RFI
- Early engagement
- Published 15 September 2020, last edited 29 September 2020
Links
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- https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kD5k/6XrLQDb8CjVkjU9.IyhXyA44esdmsIXGAgZtUIgv9x4
- 20200907_Pillar 1 Swab Specification
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- https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kD5g/CA1_jlUTtKyCjHED5bSNIybuAFWhdPNhI3dBDCawBPA
- 20200907_Pillar 2 Swab Specification
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- https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kD6n/kEo3LSaBpvkinoqLzo1yadEodYdPTb_QYoiyQmklu6g
- COVID-19 Sample Collection Consumables_RFI
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- https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kD6s/CtGbwy_ItKBd6GjYWLV7bXKuNF9FBt01j53a6XLcs3g
- 20200907_Pillar 1 and 2 Saliva Kit Specification
About the buyer
Contact name
Sam Richman
Address
39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
GB
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Closing date: 5 October 2020