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Contract for reimbursement of manufacturing costs with option to purchase goods

Diagnostic kits
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Department of Health and Social Care: "Contract for reimbursement of manufacturing costs with option to purchase goods". 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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Published history for Department of Health and Social Care. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
11.8Bids / Report
54.4% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
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Payment Terms
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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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published11 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
Last source update11 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationDiagnostic kits
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02895e
What is being bought
Manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for Sars-Covid-2, with the option to purchase further tests.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    11 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    11 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    11 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Manufacture of Lateral Flow Antigen tests for Sars-Covid-2, with the option to purchase further tests.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    11 Jan 2021, 16:24 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 3 Dec 2020, 00:00 GMT · £6,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
SureScreen Diagnostics Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£6,000,000 · signed 3 Dec 2020, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Department of Health and Social Care

Contracting authority GB-FTS-43
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  • Department of Health and Social Care
    buyer

    39 Victoria Street, London, UKI32, SW1H 0EU
    Procurement.Operations@dhsc.gov.uk

  • SureScreen Diagnostics Ltd
    supplier

    03235601
    1 Prime Parkway,, Derby, Derbyshire,, UK, DE1 3QB

  • The High Court
    reviewBody

    Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Documents (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationale1. The COVID-19 outbreak is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern as declared by the World Health Organisation on 30 January 2020. The WHO Director General characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.2. A key element of ensuring an effective response to the pandemic is ensuring that there is adequate testing. Therefore, ensuring surge LFT capacity, including sufficient availability of Lateral Flow Tests, is critical. 3. Mass testing of the UK Population is a key step in bringing the Pandemic under control. (Lateral Flow Tests produce quicker results than the current PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test, and do not require a lab processing step.) LFT tests have only recently become viable as a means of testing, with multiple tests being progressed through to certification and approval. This was unforeseen by the DHSC and outside its control.4. Market analysis data demonstrates that the global market for LTF is volatile and highly competitive. Global manufacturing capability is limited to circa 120m units per day. Demand often outstrips supply. DHSC requirement is driven by the progress of the pandemic (including emerging variants), the changing efficacy of available LTF products and the severity of the second wave/national R-number. Evolving clinical field experience, changes to treatment and testing strategy, supply market volatility and disruption has led to urgency in securing capability at volume. Market engagement identified SureScreen as being capable to manufacture the volumes within the required deadline, having availability of materials and test validation status.5. 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 surge LFT capacity was identified as strictly necessary to meet the demand to scale up the testing programme in the UK.B. There are genuine reasons for extreme urgency: It is responding to COVID-19 immediately because of public health risks presenting a genuine emergency.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: It is not possible to comply with the timescales of another procedure due to the urgent requirement to ensure effective surge capacity.E. The situation is not attributable to the contracting authority – DHSC has not done anything to cause or contribute to the need for extreme urgency"