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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Department of Health and Social Care

Procurement of SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Tests (Self-Tests)

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33141625
Value£1.2bn
Awarded12 Mar 2021
Published13 Apr 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
£1.2bntotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£1.3bn

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.

The brief

The contract is to purchase Innova SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative test kits for self-test use.

DHSC is the legal manufacturer of these devices and holds an Exceptional Use Authorisation for self-test from the MHRA, making these the only products currently authorised for use as a Covid-19 self-test kit in the UK.

The products are NHS branded and come in packs of 7s

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

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DHSC is the legal manufacturer of these devices and holds an Exceptional Use Authorisation for self-test from the MHRA, making these the only products currently authorised for use as a Covid-19 self-test kit in the UK.

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