National Fit Testing Service for England

Published date: 21 December 2022

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: 23 January 2023, 9am

Contract summary

Industry

Contract administration services - 79994000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£15,000,000

Procurement reference

tender_344240/1159636

Published date

21 December 2022

Closing date

23 January 2023

Closing time

9am

Contract start date

1 April 2023

Contract end date

30 June 2024

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Description

To help support the NHS, DHSC put in place a National Fit Testing Team for England to support NHS Trusts access fit testing, so their staff can be fit tested to the wide range of masks now available. The team currently consists of a part time Project Director, 5 Area Managers, 3 Admin Assistants to manage contacts with the Trusts and up to 175 Fit Testers.
The initial contract was put in place at the height of the pandemic under regulation 32 and ran until 30th September 2021. The contract was then reprocured under open tender, novated from DHSC to The Authority (Supply Chain Coordination Limited) 31/03/2022 and subsequently was extended to 31/03/2023.
SCCL now wishes to put in place a contract for a National Fit Testing Service to run from 1st April 2023 onwards. The Authority is running this open 30-day procurement process to select a vendor to provide this.
The contract period is expected to be from 1st April 2023-31 December 2023 with a possible extension of up to 6 months. The successful organisation will therefore be required to have mobilised their solution by 1st April 2023. The option to extend for up to a further 6 months will be in multiples of 3-month increments.

More information

Additional text: Accessing the tender:
This procurement exercise will be conducted on the NHS Supply Chain eProcurement portal at https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/
Applicants wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest against ITT_742 and provide additional procurement-specific information (if required) through the NHS Supply Chain eProcurement portal as follows:
Registration:
1) use URL https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/ to access the NHS Supply Chain
Procurement portal;
2) if not yet registered:
- click on the 'Register Here' link to access the registration page,
- complete the registration pages.
Portal access:
If registration has been completed:
- login with URL https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/
- Applicants should download the Supplier User Guide located within the eProcurement portal.
- Select "My ITT's",
- Select the three "..." to the top right hand side of the screen.
- Select "Help for Suppliers". This will then open a new screen with a library of guidance document and a video which will guide you through how to submit a compliant bid.
Support:
Should Applicants require any system support or help to locate and submit a bid for the opportunity they
should contact the Jaggaer Helpdesk on;
Tel: 0800 069 8630
Email: help_uk@jaggaer.com
ITT references relevant to this procurement:
ITT_742 - National Fit Testing Service For England

About the buyer

Contact name

Allan Wilton

Address

Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8UG
England

Email

allan.wilton@supplychain.nhs.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care