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HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust ("UHCW")

Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services (CWPS) - Pathology Sample Transport Service

TransportCPV 60000000
Value£14.0m
Awarded31 Jul 2018
Published2 Jan 2019
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£14.0mtotal contract value
median £64k
this tender£0£15.1m

This is a large award for Transport Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,160 valued Transport Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services ("CWPS") is seeking a partner to implement a dedicated Pathology Transport Service which will provide sample and consumable transport, which may include chemicals.

CWPS is a managed network of pathology laboratories hosted by University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Laboratory services are provided by laboratories at: - University Hospital Coventry; - South Warwickshire Hospital, Warwick; - George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton; and - Queens Hospital, Burton (contracted until 2022).

This procurement will provide a Service which will support pathology and phlebotomy services at 4 Trusts, which includes Seven (7) main sites (the main phlebotomy centres, the stabilisation sites and the sites of the laboratories), 9 CCGs and over 250 GP practices, covering a population of 1.6 million patients and 242 phlebotomy sites.

The Service must provide for the safe transportation of: a) Patient samples; b) Blood and blood products; c) Reagents and chemicals; d) Consumables (including, but not limited to, blood collection tubes, sample collection vessels); and e) Staff (between Main Sites).

Transport of staff will only be required on an ad hoc basis and will not be routine movement of large numbers of staff.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services ("CWPS") is

Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services ("CWPS") is seeking a partner to implement a dedicated Pathology Transport Service which will provide sample and consumable transport, which may include chemicals.

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The Service must provide for the safe

The Service must provide for the safe transportation of:.

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