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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department of Health and Social Care

Express Freight Service

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Value£1.2m
Awarded9 Aug 2021
Published3 Nov 2021
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.2mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£2.2m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded contracts for the provision of a managed service to provide access to a Premium freight service for the transportation of medicines, medical products, and any related ancillary health services.

The service will be available for use by Crown Bodies and Crown Dependencies utilising any mode of transport subject to these being compatible with the transit timescale requirements, conditions of carriage, and the effective mitigation of foreseeable disruption to services.

This new solution is designed to incorporate all 3 current services into one agile solution.

The key elements of the new service include: -continuity of flow to and from the UK (mainly from Europe but with capability to extend its reach globally); flexibility & responsiveness ; value for money.

The contract has been awarded following a competitive, open procedure and having observed the minimum 10-day standstill period.

For an initial 12-month period with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months.

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The Department of Health and Social Care

The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded contracts for the provision of a managed service to provide access to a Premium freight service for the transportation of medicines, medical products, and any related ancillary health services.

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OCID
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Stage
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