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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Public Health England

Provision of RealStar® PCR kits

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33141625
Value£2.7m
Awarded4 Dec 2020
Published9 Jan 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£2.7mtotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£16.5m

This is a large award for Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The UK Government must protect the health and wellbeing of UK citizens.

The COVID-19 outbreak is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) as declared by the World Health Organisation on 30 January 2020.

The WHO Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.

PHE discharges its duties as a Category 1 Responder to emergencies on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care within the scope of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA 2004).

This urgent requirement is in response to the recent COVID -19 outbreak.

The negotiated procedure without a prior publication has been used due to extreme urgency on the grounds of regulation 32(2)(c) as the purchase of RealStar® PCR kits will increase testing capacity for Covid 19 activities.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The UK Government must protect the health

The UK Government must protect the health and wellbeing of UK citizens.

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