Published date: 20 April 2018

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: 25 May 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Cleaning and sanitation services - 90900000

  • Cleaning services - 90910000

  • Accommodation, building and window cleaning services - 90911000

    • Building-cleaning services - 90911200

Location of contract

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

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_165633/652906

Published date

20 April 2018

Closing date

25 May 2018

Contract start date

15 February 2019

Contract end date

14 February 2023

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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

NHSBT requires deep cleaning services for laboratories within The Stem Cells and Immunotherapies (SCI) function which is a Specialist Services department forming part of NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Therapeutic Services. The laboratories process, store and distribute human cell based products for transplantation and other therapies.
SCI consists of seven stem cell processing laboratories based within NHSBT facilities at Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield and Southampton. Currently, six of these laboratories (Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Oxford, Sheffield and Southampton) require 6 monthly, deep clean of their ISO 14644 grade 5 designed clean rooms. Each laboratory operates clean room facilities in accordance with EUGMP Grade A /B requirements and is licensed by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) in accordance with the Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) Regulations 2007 and the Joint Accreditation Committee - ISCT and EBMT (JACIE). The activities of the NHSBT SCI processing laboratories involve processing, testing, storage and distribution of human progenitor cells for autologous and/or allogeneic transplantation. Birmingham and Bristol laboratories are also regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for cell therapy medicinal product manufacture. A high level of hygiene and cleanliness is essential to preventing contamination and maintaining the sterility of these products.
Periodic, specialist Deep Cleaning is required, supplemental to in-house cleaning and disinfection regimes to ensure that the interior of the SCI Cleanrooms are maintained in a sufficient state of cleanliness in order to achieve EUGMP Grade A/B standards as required by the regulatory authorities. The quality of the cleaning service is significant to the effective running of NHSBT operations and its compliance with the standards expected by MHRA, HTA and JACIE. It is imperative therefore that the specification standards for this service are consistently achieved.The Supplier will be expected to have, or be working towards, Quality Management System BSI (EN) ISO 9001 or equivalent.

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Expressions of Interest are required from suitably qualified and experienced suppliers able to deliver Stem Cell Immunotherapy Cleanroom Cleaning.
NHSBT will be running the Tender through Bravo Solutions ePortal, please follow the instructions below and email lukas.mokrolusky@nhsbt.nhs.uk when you have completed the registration and to express your interest.

To register on our ePortal you need to follow these simple instructions.

To register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) - Browse to the eSourcing Portal at https://nhsbt.bravosolution.co.uk - Click the "Register now!" link - Accept the terms and conditions and click "continue" - Enter your correct business and user details - Note the username you chose and click "Save" when complete - You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure).

About the buyer

Contact name

Lukas Mokrolusky

Address

500 North Bristol Park
Bristol
BS34 7QH
England

Telephone

01179217235

Email

lukas.mokrolusky@nhsbt.nhs.uk