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ClosedStage · preprocurement

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)

COVID-19 Sample Collection Consumables RFI

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33000000 33100000 38000000 38900000 38910000 33140000 33141000 33190000 33192000
ValueValue not published
Deadline5 Oct 2020
Published15 Sept 2020
RegionUK-wide
Timeline
Published 15 Sept 2020ClosedCloses 5 Oct 2020
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The brief

In line with the Government's testing strategy, the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) is seeking to procure sample collection consumables for COVID-19 testing in order to scale up testing to meet forecast demand for winter.

To begin with, the DHSC would like to build an understanding of suppliers in the market who can support this scale up - hence the issuance of this RFI.

Kindly click on the links below to access the relevant specification documents along with the RFI response excel.

For the provision of responses to this RFI, please follow the "RFI Response Instructions" as highlighted in the "RFI Background & Context" sheet of the excel document.

Although the end date for this RFI is 30/09/2020, we are requesting responses to be submitted as soon as possible.

Thank you for your interest in this RFI - we appreciate your support.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To begin with, the DHSC would like

To begin with, the DHSC would like to build an understanding of suppliers in the market who can support this scale up.

02

We appreciate your support

we appreciate your support.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
preprocurement · Closed
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