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Additional PCR Storage Kitting & Storage Capacity

Storage and warehousing services
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department of Health and Social Care: "Additional PCR Storage Kitting & Storage Capacity". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityDepartment of Health and Social CareScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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11.8Bids / Report
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Coverage: 451 active published awards; 397 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityDepartment of Health and Social Care
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
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CompetitionNot published
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Legal basisNot published
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Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
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Published1 Oct 2021, 16:24 BST
Last source update1 Oct 2021, 16:24 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationStorage and warehousing services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02e71d
What is being bought
Regulation 32(2)c award to DHL for additional PCR kitting capacity for an additional 100k per day kitting and increased storage capacity for a maximum period of 6 months. The additional capacity is required due to a range of factors that have led to a material increase in demand for PCR testing
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    1 Oct 2021, 16:24 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    1 Oct 2021, 16:24 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    1 Oct 2021, 16:24 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Regulation 32(2)c award to DHL for additional PCR kitting capacity for an additional 100k per day kitting and increased storage capacity for a maximum period of 6 months. The additional capacity is required due to a range of factors that have led to a material increase in demand for PCR testing
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    1 Oct 2021, 16:24 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 3 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST · £20,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
McGregor Cory Limited (DHL)
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£20,000,000 · signed 3 Sept 2021, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
foreignBidsFromEU: 0 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department of Health and Social Care

Contracting authority GB-FTS-43
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Planning and rationale
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Procedure rationaleNegotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication OJEU Regulation 32 (2) c award to DHL for additional PCR kitting capacity for an additional 100k per day kitting and increased storage capacity for a maximum period of 6 months. The additional capacity is required due to a range of factors that have led to a material increase in demand for PCR testing:1. Rise in symptomatic testing demand due to easing of lockdown measures 2. The spread of the Delta variant and resultant increases in positivity3. Approved expansion of use cases, including ERP4. Anticipated expansion of eligible symptoms . DHSC is satisfied the tests permitting use of the Negotiated procedure without prior publication (Regulation 32(2)(c)) are met:a) As far as is strictly necessary: The recent lab expansion has created a significant delta between PCR kitting capacity and lab capacity. Current contracted kitting capacity is 375k kits per day, representing a ~435k per day shortfall against capacity required. The Authority plan to secure the additional 435k capacity through contracting 100k via this contract (previous kitting partner), then the remaining volume across specialist packing suppliers b) There are genuine reasons for extreme urgency: The high transmissibility of the Delta variant and the easing of lockdown measures has led to a large increase in symptomatic testing in both Pillar 1 (swab testing in Public Health England labs and NHS hospitals) and Pillar 2 (swab testing for the wider population) laboratories. Positivity has now gone above 10%, a rate which has not been seen since early February 2021. c) The events that have led to the need for extreme urgency were unforeseeable: The Commission itself confirmed: “The current coronavirus crisis presents an extreme and unforeseeable urgency – precisely for such a situation our European rules enable public buyers to buy within a matter of days, even hours, if necessary.” (Commissioner Breton, Internal Market, 01.04.2020).d) It is impossible to comply with the usual timescales in the PCR: An award under Regulation 32 (2) c was identified as the most suitable route to award and the quickest to implement in order to address the urgent shortfall in capacity and overcome present inventory constraints. The contracts would be for a maximum period of 6 months, which is the minimum timeframe that suppliers are willing to scale up operations.