Uniserve

Contract summary

Industry

• Freight transport agency services - 63521000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£572,890,310

Procurement reference

CF-0069000D0O000000rwimUAA4

Published date

21 April 2021

Closing date

29 March 2020

Closing time

12am

Contract start date

31 March 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The provision of freight services for the supply of personal protective equipment and medical equipment.

DHSC has agreed to extend the existing agreement by an additional 9 months to now expire on 31.12 2021. DHSC is extending the contract relying on Regulation 72(1)(b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to:
a) Ensure continuity of services whilst competed contracts are fully mobilised, and;
b) Enable goods in transit to complete their journey to long term warehousing including the unloading and release of PPE storage containers.

This will include an increase in contract value under this agreement of £99,500,000.

Please note: this contract was awarded and commenced on 30/03/2020. Due to a system update it has not been possible to display the awarded date and the commencement date as the same date in this notice so different dates have been entered. However, as noted this contract was awarded and commenced on 30/03/2020.

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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Uniserve

• Awarded contract
• Published 31 March 2021

Links

• https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kEJd/Fg.cIf3QpkGyHfDxtEw.JqjuojTAcWfYv7lW._BdjhI
• Annex D Uniserve

• https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kJ3o/qwpBu2QzAfU8.w9pNclvqNS5JPIxE2fTIIJJaE55IJY
• Memorandum_of_Agreement_Redacted

• https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kQ1L/RrRCjXkxM5llaiDXotOa0xININL8B.rLxjHzn47.pL0
• Uniserve Freight Services - extension letter to MOA_signed_Redacted

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Award information

Awarded date

30 March 2020

Contract start date

31 March 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2021

Total value of contract

£572,890,310

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Uniserve

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About the buyer

Contact name

DHSC

Address

39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
GB

Email

FreightContractNotices@dhsc.gov.uk