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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Cheshire west and Chester Borough Council

Drug and Alcohol Testing

HealthcareCPV 85000000 98000000
Value£90k
Awarded8 Nov 2021
Published13 Jan 2022
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£90ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The aim of this service is to provide accredited testing that meets ISO 17025 standard and analysis that is legally defensible in UK courts, analysis reports will also be used for the purpose of Family Court proceedings on behalf of Cheshire West and Chester Council.

The Services will constitute the provision of DNA, drug, and alcohol testing by the Provider via usual methods (e.g., hair, blood, saliva, and urine), as appropriate and as directed by authority representatives.

All sample collection and subsequent testing must be to approved Family Court standards as applicable from time to time and follow strict procedures to maintain the chain of custody.

Any laboratory used in the testing of samples must be a UKAS accredited laboratory to ISO 17025 standards.

Please download the documents from The Chest, www.the-chest.org.uk

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The aim of this service is

The aim of this service is to provide accredited testing that meets ISO 17025 standard and analysis that is legally defensible in UK courts, analysis reports will also be used for the purpose of Family Court proceedings on behalf of Cheshire West and Chester Council.

02

All sample collection and subsequent testing must

All sample collection and subsequent testing must be to approved Family Court standards as applicable from time to time and follow strict procedures to maintain the chain of custody.

03

Any laboratory used in the testing

Any laboratory used in the testing of samples must be a UKAS accredited laboratory to ISO 17025 standards.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

3 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

FSC / PEFC (timber chain of custody)says mustCertification & assessment schemes
All sample collection and subsequent testing must be to approved Family Court standards as applicable from time to time and follow strict procedures to maintain the chain of custody.
ISO 17025 (testing & calibration laboratories)says mustStandards you certify to
Any laboratory used in the testing of samples must be a UKAS accredited laboratory to ISO 17025 standards.
UKAS accreditationsays mustCertification & assessment schemes
Any laboratory used in the testing of samples must be a UKAS accredited laboratory to ISO 17025 standards.

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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Source & provenance
OCID
6564e0a3-2bef-46c3-ad2f-48a158864759
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
CHWEST001-DN568440-01249921
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