Department of Health and Social Care
Thermo Fisher - Supply of Covid-19 Test Kits
This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.
This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.
The Government must protect the health and well-being of UK citizens.
The COVID-19 outbreak is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) as declared by the World Health Organisation on 30 Jan 2020.
The WHO Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 Mar 2020.
A key element of ensuring an effective response to the pandemic is ensuring that there are adequate volumes of testing.
This is why on 27 March 2020, the Government announced major plans to rapidly expand the volume of COVID-19 testing.
A key element of these plans is testing of Key Workers in the first instance before rolling out more widely.
This represents Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Testing Strategy communicated and implemented by the Government.
COVID-19 is serious and its consequences pose a risk to life.
Cabinet Office published PPN 01/20: Responding to COVID-19 on procuring with extreme urgency which states that contracting authorities may enter into contracts without competing or advertising the requirement where certain tests are met, as follows: 1) There are genuine reasons for extreme urgency as there is a significant public health risk requiring immediate action as a result of COVID-19.
2) The COVID-19 outbreak and its consequences are unprecedented and the Contracting Authority could not have reasonably foreseen either of these.
3) It is not possible to comply with the timescales of another procedure due to the urgent requirement to obtain the testing kits and associated services being contracted for.
It is imperative that testing is quickly and securely mobilised and for the service to be provided on a nationwide scale for Key Workers rapidly.
4) The COVID 19 pandemic and its consequences are not attributable to the Contracting Authority.
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The Government must protect the health
The Government must protect the health and well-being of UK citizens.
3) It is not possible to comply
3) It is not possible to comply with the timescales of another procedure due to the urgent requirement to obtain the testing kits and associated services being contracted for.
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Cabinet Office published PPN 01/20: Responding to COVID-19 on procuring with extreme urgency which states that contracting authorities may enter into contracts without
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