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Ministry of Justice

Contract Award Notice - Drug Testing Interim Contract

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38544000
Value£17.0m
Awarded16 Jan 2023
Published25 Jan 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£17.0mtotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£18.4m

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Drug Testing Interim Contract has been put in place to ensure continuity of services whilst a full re-procurement exercise takes place for the requirement.

The Drug Testing Interim Contract includes: - Delivery of drug testing kits and consumables to nominated HMPPS sites - Supply of clear chain of custody paperwork and process maps to ensure the integrity of samples. - Provision for a courier service for the delivery of kits to nominated testing sites, and either a courier service or pre-paid postage/packaging for the return of samples. - Laboratory-based analysis samples against set panels of target drugs - Prevalence testing - Production of a clear report in an agreed format within a set timescale confirming the results - Collated monthly reporting of aggregated datasets, broken down by area and test results in an agreed format. - Provision of full customer and technical support to operational staff.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Drug Testing Interim Contract has been

The Drug Testing Interim Contract has been put in place to ensure continuity of services whilst a full re-procurement exercise takes place for the requirement.

02

Supply of clear chain of custody paperwork

Supply of clear chain of custody paperwork and process maps to ensure the integrity of samples.

03

Provision of full customer and technical support

Provision of full customer and technical support to operational staff.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

FSC / PEFC (timber chain of custody)Certification & assessment schemes
Supply of clear chain of custody paperwork and process maps to ensure the integrity of samples.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Stage
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