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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Public Health England

Provision of Public Health Microbiology Services for Yorkshire and the Humber

HealthcareCPV 85100000
Value£500k
Awarded15 Apr 2018
Published4 Dec 2018
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£500ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Provision of Public Health Microbiology Services for North East.

This contract covers the following elements: - Timely testing of samples for a wide range of pathogens (including some not tested for by NHS microbiology laboratories), providing results/interpretation to the sender and providing treatment advice to clinicians if required. - Processing specialist referred samples for NHS laboratories. - Developing/rolling out new tests or methodologies to support PHE locally / nationally. - Maintaining existing active links to PHE and other Reference Laboratories. - Testing service for the investigation of outbreaks of infections or sporadic infections caused by pathogens specific concern. - Professional expert microbiological and virological advice and support in relation to medical and scientific issues pertaining to Public Health Microbiology and PHE.

The contract is for 3 years with possible extensions up to 2 years.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Developing/rolling out new tests or methodologies

Developing/rolling out new tests or methodologies to support PHE locally / nationally.

02

Professional expert microbiological and virological advice

Professional expert microbiological and virological advice and support in relation to medical and scientific issues pertaining to Public Health Microbiology and PHE.

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Source & provenance
OCID
070eb3d1-27fd-4574-866e-26e237d9dd78
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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