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OpenStage · pipeline

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC - Test and Trace)

Antibody Lateral Flow Test Kits

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33124000 38911000 33141620 71900000 38912000 33141625 33141625
Value£30.0m
Deadline
Published5 Dec 2020
RegionUK-wide
Contract value in context
£30.0mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£32.4m

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.

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Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC - Test and Trace) has published 15 notices across all categories, and 17% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Owing to the developing nature of our response to COVID-19 the Contracting Authority is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System to facilitate the procurement of Lateral Flow Testing Devices for COVID-19 Antibodies.

The contracting authority expects to seek purchases for research and surveillance studies in 2021

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Owing to the developing nature of our response to COVID-19 the Contracting Authority is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System to facilitate the procurement of Lateral Flow Testing Devices for COVID-19 Antibodies.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
pipeline · Closed
Source
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