Fulfilment Partner for Surge and Pandemic Response
This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is inviting suppliers to participate in this pre-market engagement exercise to explore options for a fulfilment partner for surge and pandemic response.
This engagement aims to share UKHSA’s current thinking, gather feedback from the market regarding the proposed specification, contract and tender evaluation methodology to inform the final approvals for the procurement strategy.
UKHSA is exploring the feasibility of establishing a flexible fulfilment service, which can be rapidly surged when required to support surge or pandemic response activity to provide greater resilience and flexibility across use cases as part of UKHSA's Pandemic Preparedness strategy and support the UK’s contribution to the 100 Days Mission, which targets deployment of diagnostics within 100 days of identifying a new pandemic threat.
Outside of incidents it is envisaged the se…
What the supplier must deliver
When activated by the Authority in defined
When activated by the Authority in defined circumstances, such as a pandemic declaration or surge response activation, the service would be required to scale rapidly and mobilise at pace into a “hot state”.
For certain test kits, the Supplier would
For certain test kits, the Supplier would be required to support outbound delivery to the end user or organisational endpoint (e.g. homes, care settings or other designated locations).
Once end users have taken their samples
Once end users have taken their samples, they would return the test kits directly to laboratories designated by UKHSA for testing, rather than sending them back to the Supplier’s warehouse or fulfilment centres, the fulfilment partner will be responsible for making these arrangements in consultation with UKHSA.
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