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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other

Provision of the Armed Forces Compulsory Drug Testing Programme

HealthcareCPV 85121292
Value£4.9m
Awarded27 Jun 2016
Published4 Aug 2016
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£4.9mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The AFCDT programme is designed to reduce the incidence of drug misuse in the Armed Forces by detection and deterrence.

Samples are collected by Service Collection Teams and transported to the Contractor’s laboratory for them to carry out the analysis.

It is estimated that the Contractor will be required to conduct testing on between 100,000 and 120,000 samples per year for a period of 3 years plus a 1 year option, commencing from date of contract award which is expected to be early December 2015.

However, the Authority cannot provide guarantees to the number of tests that may be required per year.

Batches for analysis range in quantity from a single sample to approximately 1,000; the average batch contains 250 samples.

Samples are delivered to the Contactor usually 2 or 3 times a week but this may vary according to demand.

The Contractor must be prepared to receive and process consignments outside normal working hours.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

It is estimated that the Contractor

It is estimated that the Contractor will be required to conduct testing on between 100,000 and 120,000 samples per year for a period of 3 years plus a 1 year option, commencing from date of contract award which is expected to be early December 2015.

02

However, the Authority cannot provide guarantees

However, the Authority cannot provide guarantees to the number of tests that may be required per year.

03

The Contractor must be prepared to receive

The Contractor must be prepared to receive and process consignments outside normal working hours.

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