Published date: 29 October 2024
Closed early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products - 33000000
Diagnostic devices - 33124100
Diagnostic kits - 33141625
Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) - 38000000
Parcel delivery services - 64121200
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
LS1 4AP
Procurement reference
CF-2668500D0O000000rwimUAA
Published date
29 October 2024
Closing date
29 November 2024
Contract type
Not specified
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
This is a prior information notice for the re-procurement of the Managed Service Provider (MSP) element of the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
The procurement of the MSP contract will allow the continued provision of Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) home testing kits to those eligible for the bowel cancer screening programme throughout England. These tests allow those at risk of cancer, and requiring further tests, to be identified and provision is an essential component of the screening pathway. Further tests after FIT are typically screening specialist practitioner review and a screening colonoscopy.
The MSP contract broadly covers; the sending of personalised FIT kits to eligible participants in England, management of the logistics to return kits to an NHS bowel cancer screening hub (n=5), the supply of analysers to all 5 hubs, and consumables to test the kits, provision of training for hub staff to analyse the kits, the systems to allow results to be transferred to the Bowel Cancer Screening System (BCSS) software.
The notice is to advise the market that NHS England is intending to launch the above opportunity in late November, early December 2024. A further contract notice will be issued to formally start the process, expressions of interest will need to be submitted through the Atamis tendering portal, once the Contract notice is publish.
The anticipated contract start date of 1st April 2026, a minimum of 3 year contract term.
This will be completed through an open route under PCR.
About the buyer
Contact name
Natalie Hailwood
Address
7 & 8 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
GB
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