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Northamptonshire County Council

Northamptonshire County Council: Framework for Point of Care Testing (POCT) for NHS Health Check Service

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33000000 33100000
Value£480k framework ceiling
Awarded14 Jan 2019
Published13 Feb 2019
RegionEast Midlands

Framework ceiling £480,000 — the most the agreement may spend across all suppliers and call-offs, not a contract value.

Outcome — awarded

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

The brief

Public Health is seeking to procure point of care testing equipment for all commissioned Northamptonshire providers of NHS Health Checks (on the Council's Health Checks DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System) with a view to providing greater accessibility and uptake of the health check programme.

The POCT service will be an intrinsic part of the delivery of the NHS Health Checks programme commissioned by Northamptonshire County Council (NCC).

For the purpose of this specification and contract, point of care equipment is taken to include test machines and reagents for cholesterol and HbA1c and all other associated material.

The service will be required from 1st April 2019 for an initial period of 2 years (up to 31st March 2021) with an option to extend for a further 1 year, taking the total contract term to a maximum of 3 years.

Any extension will be agreed between the Council and the Provider(s).

The deadline for completed Framework applications to be received on the LGSS eTendering Portal is 12:00noon on 14th January 2019.

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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
Public Health is seeking to procure point of care testing equipment for all commissioned Northamptonshire providers of NHS Health Checks (on the Council's Health Checks DPS - Dynamic Purchasing System) with a view to providing greater accessibility and uptake of the health check programme.

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Source & provenance
OCID
22580ec8-de5b-43e2-aa70-83f974992dd3
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
LGSS001-DN376794-44028126
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