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University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay Nhs Foundation Trust

Specialist Courier Services

TransportCPV 60000000
ValueValue not published
Deadline5 Dec 2017
Published25 Oct 2017
RegionNorth West
Timeline
Published 25 Oct 2017ClosedCloses 5 Dec 2017
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The brief

University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a suitably experienced provider who is able to provide specialist courier service in compliance with Crown Commercial Services framework RM3799, specifically in connection with LOT 1: Class 6.2 Infectious Substances (Category A and Category B), Non-Infectious Substances, Biological Substances, Blood and Tissue.

UHMBT would like to commission a secure courier service to transport category B Pathology samples to UN3373 standards from sexual health clinics in Essex to the Blood Sciences laboratory at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Samples must be collected from multiple clinics in Essex each evening at appropriate times from Monday to Saturday for delivery to Lancaster by 07:00 the next morning, Tuesday to Sunday.

Deliveries will be required on bank holidays.

Samples will be collected from unmanned secure SampleSafe boxes and designated manned sites in Essex.

Some collections will be time critical.

All sample packages must be tracked and temperature controlled during transport.

The courier service would be expected to provide specimen transport boxes which comply with the relevant Transport Regulations.

Additionally we will require a courier service to transport bulk consumables from Lancaster to each of four hub sites in Essex at least four times each year.

The service must be flexible to meet the changing needs of UHMBT and our partner organisation in Essex during the life of the contract e.g. to allow the addition of clinic sites or changes to collection times.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Samples must be collected from multiple clinics

Samples must be collected from multiple clinics in Essex each evening at appropriate times from Monday to Saturday for delivery to Lancaster by 07:00 the next morning, Tuesday to Sunday.

02

All sample packages must be tracked

All sample packages must be tracked and temperature controlled during transport.

03

The courier service would be expected

The courier service would be expected to provide specimen transport boxes which comply with the relevant Transport Regulations.

04

The service must be flexible to meet

The service must be flexible to meet the changing needs of UHMBT and our partner organisation in Essex during the life of the contract e.g. to allow the addition of clinic sites or changes to collection times.

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