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Surge Laboratory Capacity in the event of a Health Emergency
Historical: no longer open for bids.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- Not statedValue not stated in source
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this historical notice.
- Published
- 20 Oct 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) invites suitably qualified suppliers to participate in a tender exercise for the provision of surge laboratory diagnostic testing capacity to support national responses to future public health emergencies.
UKHSA aims to maintain a scalable ‘surge model’ that supplements its internal laboratory network with externally contracted PCR testing capability. This model ensures that, in the event of a significant public health threat, the UK can rapidly increase testing volumes to support diagnosis, surveillance, outbreak management and wider public health interventions.
Under this procurement, the Supplier will be required to provide Clinical Laboratory Diagnostic Testing Services as part of a Public Health Critical service. The contract will operate under two defined readiness states:
Cold State – the Supplier maintains operational readiness and must be capable of ramping up to Hot State withi
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 71900000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
8 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 7 May 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 7 May 2025.
Release 019260-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 23 May 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 23 May 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 026450-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 9 Jan 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 9 January 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 001779-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 5 Mar 2026Tender notice
Tender notice published 5 March 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Thu 2 Apr 2026, 12:30 BST.
Release 020136-2026
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Notice published 12 June 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 055895-2026
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Notice published 12 June 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 055902-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 14 Aug 2026Award notice
Award notice published 14 August 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 077679-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 20 Oct 2026Notice
Notice published 20 October 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release 098887-2026
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The source does not state a usable value.
06/ Questions
About this notice
08/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-050d89
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- award · Awarded
- Last verified
- Wed 21 Oct 2026, 07:10 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 04:34 BST
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