Published date: 1 July 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 3 August 2021, 11am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Road transport services - 60100000

  • Non-scheduled passenger transport - 60140000

  • Parcel transport services - 60161000

    • Air transport services - 60400000

    • Non-scheduled air transport services - 60420000

    • Non-scheduled airmail transport services - 60421000

    • Water transport services - 60600000

    • Freight transport agency services - 63521000

    • Postal and telecommunications services - 64000000

    • Post and courier services - 64100000

    • Courier services - 64120000

    • Multi-modal courier services - 64121000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £3,600,000

Procurement reference

CF-0244300D0O000000rwimUAA1

Published date

1 July 2021

Closing date

3 August 2021

Closing time

11am

Contract start date

22 September 2021

Contract end date

31 October 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is looking to engage an Express Freight Service (EFS) with global reach and capability. The EFS forms part of the DHSC's National Supply Disruption Response, which is part of the multi-layered approach to help mitigate the impact of disruption to supply of medicines and medical products. It was originally designed to help mitigate disruption in the event of a no deal exit from the EU and has since been used as part of COVID 19 response arrangements when all other options have been exhausted.
The new requirement is for a managed service to provide access to a Premium freight service for the transportation of medicines, medical products, medical devices/components of and/ or services related to such products in the event that a supplier's own logistics arrangements are disrupted, and contingency measures fail. The solution may utilise any mode of transport, subject to these being compatible with the transit timescale requirements, conditions of carriage, and the effective mitigation of foreseeable disruption to services. The service will be available for use by Crown Bodies and Crown Dependencies.
The contracting authority intends to use the Department of Health and Social Care Atamis eTendering system to manage the tender. Information relating to the tender is available within Atamis. Select this link to access the Atamis system: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Select 'Opportunities' and then select the DHSC International Freight and Logistics Solutions opportunity. A document that sets out the process can be selected from the opportunity at the 'View Documents' area. If you wish to register an interest, if you have not done so already, register your organisation as a supplier from here https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Once registered, press the 'Register Interest' to login and register your interest. Once you have registered your interest, you may submit clarification requests. Correspondence must be through Atamis. The deadline for clarification questions is 14/07/2021.

About the buyer

Contact name

Joyce Angoma

Address

39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
GB

Email

joyce.angoma@dhsc.gov.uk